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Engineering Manager- Platform

Meesho
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BangaloreFull Time EmployeePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager role leading Meesho's Platform Team, owning the technical roadmap for the Database Platform, and delivering a unified database platform used by hundreds of engineers. Focuses on platform engineering leadership, system design, automation, developer experience, and reliability, with cross-team collaboration (Backend, Data, Infra, SRE).

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a team of engineers building Meesho’s Database Platform
  • Own the platform roadmap for database provisioning, scaling, upgrades, client side interaction with DBs, observability, automation and modernising the overall database landscape
  • Drive the shift from manual operations to self-service and intent-based workflows
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to understand requirements and translate them into platform capabilities
  • Ensure high standards of reliability, availability, security, and performance across database systems
  • Establish strong engineering practices around design reviews, code quality, and operational excellence
  • Mentor engineers, conduct regular 1:1s, and build a culture of ownership and continuous learning
  • Collaborate with SRE and Infra teams and leverage AI to reduce toil and improve incident resilience

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with 1+ years in an engineering management role
  • Strong background in platform, backend or infrastructure engineering
  • Experience building backend systems in Java and/or Python
  • Hands-on understanding of relational and/or NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Scylla, Elastic, etc.)
  • Solid grasp of distributed systems, scalability, high availability, and fault tolerance
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP)
  • Ability to drive execution via OKRs, sprint planning, and prioritisation
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work across multiple teams

Skills

Required:Software engineeringJava/PythonDatabases (SQL/NoSQL)Distributed systems

Benefits

  • (Not explicitly listed in the provided description)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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