Senior Backend Engineer, DBaaS (RDS)

About the role

The DBCP (Database Cloud Platform) team is part of Shopee's infrastructure DBaaS, building and scaling an in-house Relational Database Service (RDS). It provides a unified cloud management platform for rapid deployment and elastic management of large database clusters across multi-region and multi-IDC environments, while delivering high-performance storage and networking solutions. This role designs, develops and maintains high-performance, large-scale backend services for the in-house RDS.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain high-performance, large-scale backend services of Shopee's in-house RDS.
• Collaborate with the DBA and other infrastructure teams to provide technical solutions for the database product and its ecosystem.
• Take part in the technical design of key components and help deliver the final solution.
• Execute and implement technical designs.
• Troubleshoot online issues related to business logic or performance.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• At least 3 years of professional experience in backend development.
• Strong logical thinking and problem-solving skills, with strong ownership and good communication.
• Ability to work independently under pressure and a passion for coding and solving challenging problems.

Required skills

• Familiarity with at least one backend language such as Java, Golang or C++.
• Expertise in low-latency, high-throughput systems and performance tuning.
• In-depth understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms, operating systems, networks).
• Good to have: Kubernetes and cloud-native projects; relational database internals (architecture, transactions, storage engines); distributed file systems (Ceph, GlusterFS, HDFS, Lustre); RDMA networking (InfiniBand/RoCE).