Senior Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore, Hybrid ‍

Type: Full Time ‍

Experience : 2 - 4 Years
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About Us

XCaliber is the operating platform for healthcare and health tech organizations, enabling real-time decision-making and autonomous workflows. Our platform powers healthcare-specific copilots through three core products: an Interoperability Gateway (out-of-the-box access to Epic, athena, Elation, eCW, and more), a Healthcare Data Fabric for clean, connected data, and Agentic Workflows for automation at scale. The result: faster integrations, lower costs, and improved patient care.

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer – Database Specialist who thrives in a startup culture, is a self-learner, demonstrates a strong sense of ownership, and communicates effectively across technical and non-technical teams. You will play a critical role in ensuring our platform’s data layer is robust, scalable, and optimized for real-world healthcare workloads.

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What You Will Work On

• Database Performance & Optimization:
  
  • Analyze, optimize, and fine-tune queries to ensure optimal performance at scale.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve database performance issues across production, staging, and development environments.
• Architecture & Capacity Planning:
  
  • Design and execute capacity planning strategies for Aurora, Iceberg, and Redis to meet scalability and availability requirements.
  • Work with infrastructure teams to plan and execute upgrades, migrations, and scaling events.
• Development & Automation:
  
  • Develop tools and scripts in Python, Node.js, or Go to automate monitoring, performance tuning, and operational workflows.
  • Implement best practices for indexing, partitioning, caching, and replication strategies.
• Collaboration & Mentorship:
  
  • Partner with application developers to design database schemas that align with business and performance goals.
  • Mentor junior engineers in database design principles and query optimization.

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What We’re Looking For

• Strong proficiency in database fundamentals, indexing, query optimization, and execution plan analysis.
• Proven experience managing and tuning Aurora, Iceberg and Redis (or similar technologies) in production at scale.
• Solid coding proficiency in Python, Node.js, or Go.
• Experience with capacity planning, replication strategies, and disaster recovery planning.
• Familiarity with high-availability architectures and distributed database concepts.
• Knowledge of security best practices for data handling, including encryption, RBAC, and audit logging.
• Self-driven, eager to learn, adaptable to changing priorities, and capable of delivering in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  

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Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in healthcare or other highly regulated data domains.
• Exposure to streaming data pipelines and integration with analytical workloads.
• Experience with observability tools for database performance monitoring.
• Background in multi-tenant SaaS environments.

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