Job Title: Staff Software Engineer, Database Engineering Location: India, Hybrid This is a hybrid position, which will require the ability to be onsite in our Bengaluru, India office as needed. Candidates must be based in India. ABOUT THE COMPANY: Clari + Salesloft are building the next era of enterprise revenue — one where teams make confident decisions powered by AI and real signals. By combining our scale, insights, and AI innovation, we’re building the industry’s first Predictive Revenue System , enabling humans and AI to work together to make smarter decisions and drive consistent growth. With thousands of customers using our platforms every day, we have an unmatched view into how revenue is actually won — the Revenue Context that reveals what happens, when, and with what outcome. This gives us a unique opportunity to transform an entire category and set a new benchmark for how modern revenue teams operate. Join us to help transform how companies around the world run revenue — and build the platform that will guide leading revenue teams into the future. THE OPPORTUNITY: At Clari + Salesloft, our Staff Software Engineer, DBE will be pivotal to our company’s success. You will be a key member of our fast-growing and high-performing team in India. We are looking for an experienced technical leader who can help realize the Clari + Salesloft vision of a "Data Platform as a Service." We are looking for engineers who are passionate about database reliability, cloud automation, and data integrity, and who thrive working on leading-edge technologies to scale our DataHub to Petabyte Scale . On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible to: - Design, build, and scale our RDBMS (Postgres, MySQL, Amazon Aurora) and NoSQL systems (Cassandra, MongoDB) to meet massive ingestion and analytical demands. - Lead large, cross-functional projects that identify and overcome friction points in data persistence, migration, and scaling. - Architect scale-out strategies , including the evaluation and implementation of sharding technologies to distribute workloads effectively across clusters. - Build automation and tooling (Infrastructure as Code) to improve engineering efficiency, reduce toil, and empower product teams to operate in a reliable and secure manner. - Collaborate synchronously and asynchronously with Architects, Product Development, and Data Science teams to gather requirements and design scalable, distributed systems. - Maintain, protect, and grow our data resources by owning the "backbone" of our production environment, including high-availability (HA) solutions, backups, and disaster recovery. As a technical leader within the Platform Operations Infrastructure Team, you are a resilient problem solver . You have a deep understanding of the engineering lifecycle and how teams work in Agile. You hold strong opinions, loosely held, and welcome new perspectives supported by thoughtful reasoning and data. You thrive in a collaborative environment where cross-team impact and a diversity of ideas are valued. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR: We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer, DBE to provide an experienced backbone to our team in the form of automation, capacity planning, and overall database platform management. If you’re looking for an opportunity to learn more, do more, and become more, then this is the career path for you! THE TEAM: Clari + Salesloft's Platform Operations Infrastructure organization builds systems and tools to enable engineering velocity in a reliable manner. We partner with engineering teams to establish standards, improve reliability, and increase cost-efficiency. This is a great opportunity to make a massive impact on scaling cloud infrastructure to meet the high demand and rapid growth of both users and workload per user. Our Database Engineering Team consists of people passionate about solving customer problems, both internal and external. THE SKILL SET: - 8+ years of experience building and managing large-scale, business-critical, high-throughput stateful applications in the cloud (AWS/GCP). - Expertise in RDBMS and NoSQL: Deep knowledge in optimizing and tuning PostgreSQL, MySQL Amazon Aurora, MongoDB, and Cassandra. - Automation & IaC: Expert-level experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management (e.g., Terraform, Ansible). - Coding Proficiency: Ability to code in Python or Java , with a solid grasp of shell scripting. - Reliability & HA: Demonstrated experience with high-availability databases and failover clustering (experience with Patroni is a plus). - Scaling & Sharding (Plus): Experience with database sharding technologies and extensions (e.g., Citus for PostgreSQL) is highly preferred but not required. - Query Optimization: Expert-level SQL skills and the ability to aid product teams in complex performance tuning and problem resolution. - Distributed Systems: Strong understanding of data processing, analytics, and how databases fit into a microservices architecture. - Communication: Excellent written and verbal skills, with a love for collaborating across multiple timezones in a remote-first environment. At Clari + Salesloft, we are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace where everyone belongs and can thrive. We focus on culture add, not culture fit, and believe our teams are made stronger by the unique perspectives, experiences, and identities each person brings. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you’re excited about this role even though your experience may not perfectly match every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We are actively hiring across multiple geographies and would love to welcome passionate, curious, and mission-driven individuals to our growing team. 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