Senior Database Administrator - MongoDB

Role overview

The client is building a multimodal AI platform that processes multi-hour video, audio and text to generate structured insights, narratives and highlight workflows for broadcasters and media organisations.

We are seeking a Backend / Platform Engineer to design and build high-throughput media pipelines, robust APIs, and model-serving infrastructure that connect our AI engine (video perception + multimodal reasoning) to real products and customer environments.

This is not a CRUD‑only backend role.

You will work on:

• long‑running jobs
• distributed processing
• GPU inference orchestration
• storage for embeddings and metadata
• integration with AI models
• reliability and observability at scale

Key responsibilities

Media ingestion & processing pipelines

• Design and implement ingestion pipelines for multi‑hour video and audio content.
• Build microservices for frame extraction, audio processing, transcription integration and metadata generation.
• Handle long‑running, asynchronous jobs using queues, workers and robust retry strategies.
• Integrate with FFmpeg or similar tools for transcoding, segmenting and preparing media for AI models.

API & platform architecture

• Design and implement REST/gRPC APIs that expose AI model outputs (perception, multimodal alignment, narratives) to frontend and external systems.
• Define clear contracts for internal services and external integrations.
• Implement authentication, authorisation and rate‑limiting for platform endpoints.
• Ensure backward‑compatible API evolution as the product matures.

Model‑serving & AI integration

• Integrate with AI inference services (video models, multimodal models, LLM/VLM) running on GPUs or specialised infrastructure.
• Design request/response flows that handle large payloads, streaming outputs and structured results.
• Optimise throughput and latency for inference pipelines, including batching, caching and concurrency control.
• Collaborate closely with AI engineers to productionise models and debug end‑to‑end behaviour.

Storage, data models & performance

• Design data models to store embeddings, timelines, metadata, scene/shot boundaries, and narrative units.
• Work with appropriate storage technologies (SQL/NoSQL, object storage, search indices) based on access patterns.
• Implement indexing and query strategies for fast retrieval of segments, highlights and multimodal insights.
• Optimise performance for large datasets and high‑volume workloads.

Reliability, observability & operations

• Implement logging, metrics and tracing across services for debugging and monitoring.
• Set up health checks, circuit breakers and graceful degradation for critical services.
• Work with CI/CD pipelines to ensure safe, repeatable deployments.
• Collaborate on Kubernetes‑based deployments (or equivalent orchestration) for scaling services.

Requirements (must‑have)

Experience:

• 4–8 years in backend or platform engineering.
• At least 3 years working on distributed systems, high‑throughput services or complex pipelines (not just simple CRUD apps).

Languages & frameworks:

• Strong proficiency in Python or Node.js (one primary, both are a plus).
• Experience with at least one modern backend framework (FastAPI, Flask, Express, NestJS, etc.).

Distributed systems & pipelines:

• Hands‑on experience with queues and workers (e.g. Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, etc.).
• Experience building asynchronous, long‑running job pipelines.
• Understanding of idempotency, retries, backoff, and failure handling.

APIs & integration:

• Strong experience designing and implementing REST APIs (gRPC is a plus).
• Experience integrating with external services and handling network‑level failures.

Cloud & infrastructure:

• Experience deploying services on AWS, GCP or Azure (EC2/Compute Engine, S3/GCS, IAM, networking basics).
• Experience with Docker; exposure to Kubernetes is a strong plus.

Data & storage:

• Experience with SQL and at least one NoSQL store.
• Ability to design schemas and data models for performance and maintainability.

Engineering quality:

• Strong debugging skills across services and environments.
• Experience with unit/integration tests for backend systems.
• Clear, structured communication in English.

Nice‑to‑have

• Experience with media/video processing (FFmpeg, transcoding, segmenting).
• Experience with AI/ML model integration (serving models, handling inference requests).
• Experience with search/retrieval systems (e.g. Elasticsearch, vector databases).
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience working with remote teams across time zones.

What we are explicitly NOT looking for

To reduce noise and mismatches, we are not looking for:

• Pure CRUD‑only backend developers with no pipeline or distributed systems experience.
• Engineers who have only worked on small, single‑service apps without scale or complexity.
• Candidates who cannot explain trade‑offs in architecture, data modelling and reliability.
• Candidates who are uncomfortable with ownership of subsystems end‑to‑end.

Why join us

• Work on real, complex problems at the intersection of media, AI and distributed systems.
• Collaborate with senior AI engineers working on perception, multimodal fusion and narrative reasoning.
• Build the core platform that turns AI models into a usable product for broadcasters and media organisations.
• Operate with high ownership, clear expectations and direct access to the CTO.

JioTesseract, a digital arm of Reliance Industries, is India's leading and largest AR/VR organization with the mission to democratize mixed reality for India and the world. We make products at the cross of hardware, software, content and services with focus on making India the leader in spatial computing. We specialize in creating solutions in AR, VR and AI, with some of our notable products such as JioGlass, JioDive, 360 Streaming, Metaverse, AR/VR headsets for consumers and enterprise space.

Mon-Fri, In office role with excellent perks and benefits!

Key Responsibilities:

1. Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js or Python, or Java.

2. Build and implement scalable and robust microservices and integrate API gateways.

3. Develop and optimize NoSQL database structures and queries (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB).

4. Implement real-time data pipelines using Kafka.

5. Collaborate with front-end developers to ensure seamless integration of backend services.

6. Write clean, reusable, and efficient code following best practices, including design patterns.

7. Troubleshoot, debug, and enhance existing systems for improved performance.

Mandatory Skills:

1. Proficiency in at least one backend technology: Node.js or Python, or Java.

2. Strong experience in:

i. Microservices architecture,

ii. API gateways,

iii. NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB),

iv. Kafka

v. Data structures (e.g., arrays, linked lists, trees).

3. Frameworks:

i. If Java : Spring framework for backend development.

ii. If Python: FastAPI/Django frameworks for AI applications.

iii. If Node: Express.js for Node.js development.

Good to Have Skills:

1. Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.

2. Familiarity with in-memory databases like Redis or Memcached.

3. Frontend skills: Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or frameworks like React.js.

Job description

• Engage with the business team and stakeholder at different levels to understand business needs, analyze, document, prioritize the requirements, and make recommendations on the solution and implementation.
• Delivering the product that meets business requirements, reliability, scalability, and performance goals
• Work with Agile scrum team and create the scrum team strategy roadmap/backlog, develop minimal viable product and Agile user stories that drive a highly effective and efficient project development and delivery scrum team.
• Work on Data mapping/transformation, solution design, process diagram, acceptance criteria, user acceptance testing and other project artifacts.
• Work effectively with the technical/development team and help them understand the specifications/requirements for technical development, testing and implementation.
• Ensure solutions promote simplicity, efficiency, and conform to enterprise and architecture standards and guidelines.
• Partner with the support organization to provide training, support and technical assistance to operation team and end users as necessary
• Product/Application Developer
• Designs and develops software applications based on user requirements in a variety of coding environments such as graphical user interface, database query languages, report writers, and specific development languages
• Consult on the use and implementation of software products and applications and specialize in the business development environment, including the selection of development tools and methodology

Primary / Mandatory skills:

• Overall Experience: Overall 4 to 6 years of IT development experience
• Design and Code NodeJS based Microservices, API Webservices, NoSql technologies (Cassandra/MongoDb)
• Expert in developing code for Node-JS based Microservice in TypeScript
• Good Experience in understanding the data Transmission through pug/sub mechanism like Event Hub and Kafka
• Good Understanding of Analytics and clickstream data capture is HUGE Plus
• Good understanding of frameworks like Java Spring Boot, Python is preferred
• Good understanding of Microsoft Azure principles and services is preferred
• Able to write Unit test cases
• Familiarity with performance testing tools such as Akamai SOASTA is preferred
• Good knowledge on Source Code control like GIT, code clout, etc and understanding of CI/CD(Jenkins and Kubernetes)
• Solid technical background with understanding and/or experience in software development and web technologies
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to convert consumer insights and performance data into high impact initiatives
• Experience working within scaled agile development team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and senior leaders
• The desire to be continually learning about emerging technologies/industry trends

• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Write all clean object-oriented PHP as well as efficient SQL
• Integrate features and improvements that can support our large-and-growing SAAS product.
• Take initiative and contribute to technical solutions, R&D.
• Contribute to internal tools/processes that help us manage the product and QA cycle
• Perform Unit testing.
• Opportunity to learn and work on interesting solutions like Application Scaling, Microservices, Batch Processing, Javascript frameworks like ReactJS.
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development
• Adhere to milestones assigned

Skills:

• Must require solid programming proficiency with Core PHP.
• Strong knowledge of OOPS and how to apply it in application code is a must.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Familiarity with SQL databases and their declarative query languages.
• Exposure to designing and building APIs (REST/HTTP/Soap) is highly preferred.
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Experience with any MVC framework is an added advantage.
• Proficient understanding of software testing
• Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Bitbucket, Git is an advantage
• Understanding of product development environments and methodologies like Agile highly preferred
• Good problem-solving skills.

Desired Profile:

• Minimum 1.5 years of experience developing web applications and understanding modern PHP standards.
• The candidate should be willing to work with a startup/mid-size company.
• The candidate must love to code and must possess a thorough knowledge of web technologies.
• Motivated and ambitious to learn new technologies, grow as a leader in quick time.
• Good communication skills - must be able to explain work and provide answers in English

• Excellent knowledge of Unity, including experience with scripting, textures, animation, GUI styles, and user session management.
• Familiarity with level design and planning.
• Experience with game physics and particle systems.
• Experience with mobile and console game development.
• Experience optimizing memory and space usage for support of older hardware.
• Ability to constantly learn and stay in touch with evolving game standards and development technologies.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Familiarity with current design and architectural patterns.
• Knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code.

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