Database Engineer Job in Nutanix

Database Specialist - NDB Team

Description

Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.

The Opportunity

This role focuses on driving customer adoption of Nutanix Database Service (NDB) by identifying and addressing customer challenges, providing pre-sales guidance, and validating joint solution architectures that integrate NDB with third-party products (e.g., HYCU backup interoperability).

You will work closely with Services, NDB Sales specialists, and solution engineering teams to ensure strong collaboration and alignment with the product roadmap. In addition, you will offer subject matter expertise and technical support for database-related customer issues, contributing directly to engineering efforts when necessary.

Nutanix Database Service (NDB) is the only hybrid multi-cloud Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) that supports Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MySQL. NDB enables customers to manage hundreds or thousands of databases efficiently without requiring complex migrations, while automating administrative tasks like patching and backups.

About the Team

You will be part of the NDB Team, a close-knit group of 11 talented individuals based in Bangalore. Our team thrives on collaboration and mutual support, fostering an environment where creativity and innovation are encouraged, and success is shared.

This role reports to the Senior Manager of Engineering, who promotes open communication and mentorship. Our hybrid work environment allows for flexibility, with team members expected to work from the office 2-3 days per week to maintain a strong sense of community. This role has no travel requirements.

Your Role

• Collaborate with account teams and DB specialists to support top customer accounts and understand customer adoption challenges for NDB.
• Gather and prioritize customer enhancement requests, feature asks, and any identified product gaps, and communicate these insights to leadership.
• Provide feedback on feature backlog with business rationale, including ARR impact and customer retention risks.
• Develop workarounds and mitigations for customer issues, contribute to best practice documentation, and create training materials for Solution Architects (SAs) and other teams.
• Work closely with NDB engineering to design, test, and certify new features, and to address critical functionality gaps and customer escalations.
• Support database engine-specific customer issues and provide expert guidance on default configuration settings for different databases.
• Identify and document configuration parameters that should be exposed for tuning purposes and group database use cases by type.

What You Will Bring

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work directly with customers to distinguish between root problems and surface-level requests.
• Deep expertise in database engines, with priority given to Microsoft SQL Server and MongoDB.
• Strong understanding of database infrastructure, particularly on Nutanix HCI and storage platforms.
• Familiarity with critical business requirements tied to NDB deployments, including scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, and security/compliance.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid: This role operates in a hybrid work model, combining remote flexibility with in-person collaboration. Most roles require working from the office at least 2-3 days per week, though specific team expectations may vary. Your manager will provide additional team-specific guidance.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Nutanix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and (in the U.S.) an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected status.

We hire and promote individuals based solely on their qualifications for the job. Nutanix is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees can thrive, free of unlawful discrimination, intimidation, or harassment. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for individuals with disabilities.