Senior System Development Engineer, Audible

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Job Description:
The Future Begins Here:
At Takeda, we are leading digital evolution and global transformation. By building innovative solutions and future-driven capabilities, we are improving the lives of millions of patients around the world.

Mexico City has been selected to be home to Takeda’s recently launched Innovation Capability Center thanks to its international recognition in qualified and experienced talent in the data, digital and technology fields. We invite you to join our digital transformation journey.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to boost your skills and become the heart of an innovative engine that is contributing to global impact and improvement.

At Takeda’s ICC we Unite in Diversity:
Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative workplace, where individuals are recognized for their backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continuously improving our collaborators’ journey in Takeda, and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our diverse team.

About the role :
Reporting to the Global EHSS (Environmental Health, Safety and Sustainability) DD&T Partner, the DD&T Platform Engineer will work with business teams, local delivery teams, and global technical partners to build large-scale systems and scalable platforms for the EHSS team. This includes building and maintaining the data transport, collection, and orchestration layers. The role helps shape the vision for next-generation infrastructure, making it easier for developers to build data-driven products and features. These efforts will improve access to business and user insights.

How you will contribute :

• Partner with business teams to understand priorities, processes, pain points, and functional requirements.
• Translate business requirements into application functionality, configuration needs, and delivery priorities within software-as-a-service platforms.
• Determine when business needs can be met through configuration versus custom development, and work with technical teams accordingly.
• Support product backlog development, requirement clarification, acceptance criteria development, and testing.
• Work with technical teams to support reporting, data validation, and testing of software-as-a-service application data, including downstream data consumption.
• Collaborate with teams that depend on shared datasets to identify scalable solutions for reporting, integrations, and downstream system needs.
• Build relationships across business and delivery teams to support execution and adoption.
• Contribute within software development life cycle delivery models and work across Waterfall, Agile, and Scaled Agile Framework ways of working.
• Build and maintain high-performance, fault-tolerant, secure, and scalable platforms.
• Think through long-term impacts of key design decisions and handle failure scenarios.
• Build a complete understanding of tools, key business concepts such as data tables, and data and team dependencies.
• Help drive the storage layer and application programming interface roadmap and be responsible for overall engineering, including design, implementation, and testing.
• Build self-service platforms that empower users.
• Lead development of high-value projects and platform capabilities.

What you bring to Takeda:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience working with enterprise technology platforms, including systems development, configuration, and support.
• Strong experience in translating business requirements into functional design, configuration, and solution delivery, with clear differentiation between configuration-based solutions and custom development.
• Solid understanding of product and solution delivery practices, including backlog management, acceptance criteria definition, testing, and operating within SDLC, Agile, Kanban, and SAFe frameworks.
• Experience working closely with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to gather requirements, align priorities, and drive effective execution across onshore and offshore delivery models.
• Working knowledge of cloud fundamentals, particularly AWS, including experience with compute, storage, databases, Lambda, and associated services.
• Understanding of data and reporting concepts, including data models, data validation, downstream consumption, and scalable integration patterns.
• Hands-on technical skills, including systems configuration and development, with programming experience in SQL and Python.
• Exposure to AI-enabled solutions, including ML, GenAI tools, and AI agents, with the technical fluency to understand, configure, and support such capabilities within enterprise platforms.
• Experience implementing and using automation tools, such as Power Automate on the Microsoft platform, to streamline workflows and operational processes.
• Familiarity with ETL and data platforms such as Databricks (notebooks, job scheduling/monitoring), Tidal, or SFTP is preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to facilitate discussions around complex topics and drive them toward pragmatic resolution.
• Highly collaborative working style with strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to operate effectively in a global, matrixed organization.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

What Takeda’s ICC Can Offer You:
At Takeda, you take the lead on building and shaping your own career.

Joining the ICC in Mexico City will give you access to high-end technology, continuous training and a diverse and inclusive network of colleagues who will support your career growth.

It is our priority to provide competitive compensation and a benefit package that bridges your personal life with your professional career. Amongst our benefits are

• Competitive Salary + Performance Annual Bonus
• Monthly Supermarket and Food Vouchers
• Flexible Working Schemes
• Comprehensive Healthcare Insurance Plans Life, Medical, Dental & Vision
• Additional Time Off
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs

Work Location Mexico City – Santa Fe.
:
Hybrid model with a minimum in-office requirement of at least 10 (ten) days per month.
:
If you have further inquiries on the ICC Mexico City or this role, follow us on LinkedIn, and look up for our upcoming online events where we will elaborate on open roles and host Q&A sessions.

Locations:
MEX - Santa Fe

Worker Type:
Employee

Worker Sub-Type:
Regular

Time Type:
Full time

The salary range for this role is $5,000 - $9,500 per month (Gross in USD)
About Sezzle
With a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We’re not just transforming payments; we’re redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we’re building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you’re excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping!

About The Role
We are seeking a technically strong, hands-on
Senior Database Reliability Engineer
to help
design, build, and scale the database platform used across Sezzle’s applications
.

This is
not a traditional DBA role
. This role is for an engineer who can combine deep database knowledge with software engineering, infrastructure engineering, and platform thinking. You will help build the
systems, libraries, automation, standards, and guardrails
that make database usage across Sezzle reliable, secure, scalable, and easy for developers to adopt correctly.

As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for improving how Sezzle applications
connect to, migrate, operate, observe, and scale
their databases. You will work across application teams, infrastructure, security, and engineering leadership to define patterns that improve database reliability by design — not just by operational response.

You should be comfortable owning problems end-to-end: understanding application behavior, reading code, reviewing database access patterns, building shared tooling, improving connection management, designing migration safety checks, analyzing production performance, and helping developers use databases in safer and more scalable ways.

You should consider yourself a DOer to be a good fit for this role. We are looking for someone who can
ship production-quality engineering work
, not just advise from the sidelines. With AI tooling and automation, you should be a force multiplier for database reliability, developer productivity, and operational excellence across Sezzle.

Compensation
For this senior development role, with 6+ years of experience, the compensation range is
$5,000 - $9,500 USD
per month. This range acknowledges the extensive expertise, leadership capabilities, and significant contributions expected at this level, offering a competitive salary to reflect the value of advanced skills and experience.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain shared database platform components used by Sezzle applications, such as database connection packages, database client libraries, migration tooling, safety checks, query standards, and developer-facing abstractions.
• Establish reliable, scalable patterns for how Sezzle services connect to and interact with relational databases across production, staging, and development environments.
• Partner with backend engineering teams to improve database usage in application code, including connection lifecycle, transaction handling, retries, timeouts, pooling, query patterns, and migration workflows.
• Build automation and internal tooling that makes database operations safer, more repeatable, and less dependent on manual intervention.
• Define and enforce engineering standards for database access, schema design, migrations, indexing, query performance, connection management, and operational readiness.
• Architect and improve database infrastructure across AWS RDS/Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS Proxy, read replicas, backups, failover, parameter groups, monitoring, and capacity planning.
• Lead database reliability initiatives that reduce operational risk, improve performance, and help Sezzle scale safely.
• Review application designs and database changes early in the development lifecycle to ensure reliability, scalability, maintainability, and security are built in from the start.
• Build guardrails for database migrations, including automated checks, rollback expectations, schema review workflows, migration observability, and production safety controls.
• Improve developer self-service for database provisioning, access, schema management, local development, testing, and observability.
• Investigate production database issues by combining application telemetry, database metrics, logs, query plans, traces, and cloud infrastructure data.
• Identify and fix systemic database problems, not just symptoms — including bad access patterns, unsafe migrations, inefficient queries, connection storms, lock contention, replication lag, and capacity bottlenecks.
• Create and maintain high-signal dashboards, alerts, SLOs, SLIs, runbooks, and operational readiness checks for database-backed services.
• Drive improvements in database backup validation, restore testing, disaster recovery, failover readiness, and business continuity.
• Work with security and compliance teams to improve database access controls, auditability, encryption, secrets management, least privilege, and PCI/SOC 2 aligned controls.
• Mentor engineers on database design, query performance, safe migrations, operational readiness, and production debugging.
• Use automation and AI tooling where appropriate to improve migration review, query analysis, incident investigation, documentation, and developer productivity.

What We Look For

• 6+ years of professional software engineering, infrastructure engineering, database engineering, SRE, or platform engineering experience.
• Strong software engineering ability in at least one production programming language such as Go, Python, or TypeScript.
• Proven ability to build production-quality internal tools, libraries, frameworks, services, or platform components used by other engineers.
• Deep hands-on experience with relational databases, especially MySQL and/or PostgreSQL, in high-availability production environments.
• Strong understanding of how application code interacts with databases, including connection pooling, transactions, isolation levels, retries, timeouts, deadlocks, locking, migrations, and query execution.
• Experience designing or improving shared database access patterns, internal database packages, ORM wrappers, migration frameworks, or developer-facing database tooling.
• Hands-on experience with AWS RDS/Aurora, including provisioning, upgrades, replicas, backups, failover, monitoring, parameter tuning, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience with database connection management technologies such as RDS Proxy, PgBouncer, ProxySQL, or application-level pooling.
• Strong ability to analyze database performance using query plans, indexes, slow query logs, wait events, locks, metrics, and application traces.
• Experience designing safe database migration processes for production systems.
• Strong understanding of observability for database-backed applications, including metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, alerting, and incident response.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD systems such as Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Helm, or similar tooling.
• Ability to influence engineering teams through clear design reviews, documentation, technical standards, and practical implementation.
• Ability to operate independently, identify high-impact problems, propose pragmatic solutions, and drive them to completion.
• Demonstrated experience working with Claude or equivalent large language model tools is required; candidates must be comfortable leveraging AI to enhance productivity, research, and communication.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.

Preferred Knowledge And Skills

• Experience building platform capabilities for a microservices environment.
• Experience with Golang application development and database access patterns.
• Experience creating database libraries, SDKs, service templates, migration frameworks, or paved-road developer tooling.
• Experience improving database reliability across many services or teams, not just one application.
• Experience with fintech, payments, banking, e-commerce, or other high-volume transactional systems.
• Experience with compliance-sensitive environments such as PCI DSS, SOC 2, or SOX.
• Experience with database access governance, audit logging, secrets management, encryption, IAM authentication, and least-privilege access models.
• Experience with large-scale operational automation for provisioning, patching, failover testing, backup validation, access management, or schema review.
• Experience with distributed systems patterns such as transactional outbox, event-driven architecture, idempotency, queues, eventual consistency, and data consistency tradeoffs.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, Performance Insights, OpenTelemetry, or New Relic.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch or other supporting data stores.
• Familiarity with AI developer tooling such as Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Cursor, and using it to be a more productive engineer.

About You

• You have relentlessly high standards - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You’re not bound by convention - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
• You need action - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
• You earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit - you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results - you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.

Sezzle’s Technology Stack

• Languages: Golang, Typescript, Python
• Frontend: Typescript - React and React Native
• Backend: Golang
• Database: MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch
• DevOps & Cloud: AWS, Kubernetes
• Version Control: Git
• CI/CD: Gitlab
• Testing: Developer and AI-driven, focus on automated end-to-end, integration, and unit tests
• Open Source: Sezzle is focused on using open source, and we build what we can before buying!

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome?
At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

#full-time

At Cognizant we have an ideal opportunity for you to be part of one of the largest companies in the digital sector worldwide. A Great Place To Work where we look for people who contribute new ideas, experiencing a dynamic and growing environment. At Cognizant we promote an inclusive culture, where we value different perspectives providing career growth and development opportunities. #WelcomeToCognizant!

Qualifications

• Demonstrate strong experience working with Infra CI CD pipelines including design configuration troubleshooting and optimization to support complex application and data environments
• Show advanced proficiency with AWS services relevant to infrastructure and delivery automation such as compute storage network identity and monitoring components used in modern cloud native platforms
• Apply solid hands on expertise with Github Actions including workflows runners secrets management and integration with third party tools to create secure and maintainable automation pipelines
• Use practical experience with Informatica Cloud to design deploy and manage cloud data integration processes covering connectivity transformations scheduling and error handling for enterprise data flows
• Bring direct experience with Snowflake including Cortex Code and workload management to handle schema evolution query optimization environment separation and automated deployments of data artifacts

ADVANCED ENGLISH IS A MUST

Hybrid role in any of our 4 locations: CDMX, Guadalajara, Monterrey or Queretaro

Responsibilities

• Drive end to end design and implementation of Infra CI CD pipelines that automate build test and deployment processes across AWS based environments to ensure fast reliable and repeatable delivery of changes
• Coordinate closely with application and data engineering teams to integrate Github Actions workflows with repository strategies branching models and approval gates that align with enterprise governance and audit needs
• Optimize configuration of AWS services used for infrastructure automation such as compute storage networking and security components to deliver resilient cost efficient and scalable platforms for critical workloads
• Implement robust deployment strategies for Informatica Cloud integrations including parameterization environment promotion and rollback procedures that reduce risk and enhance data pipeline reliability
• Configure and maintain CI CD orchestration for Snowflake workloads leveraging Snowflake Cortex Code and related tooling to streamline schema management code deployment and data transformation lifecycle
• Establish strong observability and feedback mechanisms across all pipeline stages using logging metrics and alerting so teams can quickly detect issues troubleshoot failures and continuously improve delivery performance
• Collaborate with architects and senior engineers to refine technical standards patterns and reusable templates for pipelines and infrastructure making it easier for teams to adopt consistent delivery practices
• Guide code review practices and verification steps embedded in pipelines to enforce security checks data quality validation and performance baselines thereby protecting the integrity of business critical data assets
• Document detailed runbooks pipeline diagrams and operational procedures that enable smooth handover to support teams and reduce onboarding time for new contributors working in the hybrid environment
• Coordinate testing and deployment calendars with stakeholders to minimize production disruption while ensuring that new features data models and integrations reach users and downstream systems on predictable schedules
• Mentor team members on best practices for CI CD cloud infrastructure and data platform delivery helping them build practical skills that increase overall team effectiveness and project throughput
• Align pipeline and platform enhancements with organizational objectives by prioritizing automation initiatives that reduce manual effort shorten release cycles and improve reliability of data driven decision making
• Contribute to continuous improvement by evaluating new AWS capabilities Github Actions features and Snowflake advancements then proposing incremental upgrades that strengthen platform resilience and social impact of data solutions

Why Cognizant?

Improve your career in one of the largest and fastest growing IT services providers worldwide

Receive ongoing support and funding with training and development plans

Have a highly competitive benefits and salary package

Get the opportunity to work for leading global companies

We are committed to respecting human rights and build a better future by helping your minds and the environment

We invest in people and their wellbeing.

We create conditions for everyone to thrive. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or for any other reason covered.

At Cognizant we believe than our culture make us stronger!

Join us now!

Who We Are

At Kyndryl, we run and reimagine the mission-critical technology systems that drive advantage for the world’s leading businesses. We are at the heart of progress; with proven expertise and a continuous flow of AI-powered insight, enabling smarter decisions, faster innovation, and a lasting competitive edge. For our people—Kyndryls—that means doing purposeful work that powers human progress. Join us and experience a flexible, supportive environment where your well-being is prioritized and your potential can thrive.

The Role

Are you ready to join the team of software engineering experts at Kyndryl? We are seeking a talented Software Engineering Technical Specialist to contribute to our software engineering space and provide critical skills required for the development of cutting-edge products.

As a Software Engineering Technical Specialist, you will develop solutions in specific domains such as Security, Systems, Databases, Networking Solutions, and more. You will be a leader – contributing knowledge, guidance, technical expertise, and team leadership skills. Your leadership will be demonstrated in your work, to your customers, and within your teams.

At Kyndryl, we value effective communication and collaboration skills. When you recognise opportunities for business change, you will have the ability to clearly and persuasively communicate complex technical and business concepts to both customers and team members. You’ll be the go-to person for problem-solving of customers’ business and technical issues. You have a knack for effectively identifying and framing problems, leading the collection of elements of information, and integrating this information to produce timely and thoughtful decisions. Your aim throughout, is to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and delivery of services through the use of technology and technical methods and methodologies.

Driving the design, development, integration, delivery, and evolution of highly scalable distributed software you will integrate with other layers and offerings. You will provide deeper functionality and solutions to address customer needs. You will work closely with software engineers, architects, product managers, and partner teams to get high-quality products and features through the agile software development lifecycle.

Your continuous grooming of features/user stories to estimate, identify technical risks/dependencies and clearly communicate them to project stakeholders will ensure the features are delivered with the right quality and within timeline. You will maintain and drive the clearing of technical debt, vulnerabilities, and currency of the 3rd party components within the product.

As a Software Engineering Technical Specialist, you will also coach and mentor engineers to design and implement highly available, secure, distributed software in a scalable architecture. This is an opportunity to make a real impact and contribute to the success of Kyndryl's innovative software products. Join us and become a key player in our team of software engineering experts!

Your Future at Kyndryl

Every position at Kyndryl offers a way forward to grow your career. We have opportunities that you won’t find anywhere else, including hands-on experience, learning opportunities, and the chance to certify in all four major platforms. Whether you want to broaden your knowledge base or narrow your scope and specialize in a specific sector, you can find your opportunity here.

Who You Are

You’re good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important – you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused – someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you’re open and borderless – naturally inclusive in how you work with others.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Skilled in one or more of the following areas: Application Development, Data Platform, Security, Application Integration, Data Engineering, Server Systems, Packaged Application Implementation, Business Analysis, Network Systems, or Storage Systems

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
• And/or Master Certified Technical Specialist

Being You

The “Kyn” in Kyndryl means kinship, which represents the strong bonds we have with each other, our customers and our communities. We focus on ensuring all Kyndryls feel included and we welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We believe in growth, and we’re excited to see what you can bring. At Kyndryl, employee feedback has told us that our number one driver of employee engagement is belonging. That sense of belonging — being a valued, respected, trusted member of the team — is fundamental to our culture and fueling great experiences for our customers. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you the ability to thrive and contribute to our culture of empathy and shared success. That’s The Kyndryl Way.

What You Can Expect

Your career with us isn’t just a job—it’s an adventure with purpose. We offer a dynamic, hybrid-friendly culture that supports your well-being and empowers you to grow. Our Be Well programs are thoughtfully designed to support your financial, mental, physical, and social health—because we know that when you feel your best, you do your best.

From your very first day, you’ll dive into impactful work that powers the systems our customers rely on every day. You won’t just contribute—you’ll make a difference, tackling meaningful projects that sharpen your skills and fuel your growth.

We’re here to champion your journey. With powerful tools to chart your career path, personalized development goals aligned with your ambitions, and continuous feedback to keep you inspired and on track, you’ll have everything you need to thrive and evolve. You’ll develop in-demand skills to grow your career and achieve your ambitions with access to cutting-edge learning opportunities—from certifications with Microsoft, Google, and Amazon to coaching and hands-on experiences. And through it all, you’ll be part of a culture that values empathy, restless learning, and a devotion to shared success.

We want you to thrive here—and we’re committed to helping you do just that. Ready to make an impact? Join us and help shape what’s next.

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