Principal Database Development Engineer

About Us

Established in 2018, Bybit is one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges and digital financial platforms, serving over 80 million users across more than 200 countries and regions. Powered by world-class technology and a user-first mindset, Bybit delivers a seamless ecosystem across trading, payments, wealth management, custody, institutional services, and Web3 — connecting users to the future of digital finance.

Our core values define how we build. We listen, care and improve to create products and experiences that put users first. Backed by a global team of ambitious builders, problem-solvers, and innovators, we foster a high-performance and fast-moving environment where talent is empowered to drive real impact at the global scale. Supported by 24/7 multilingual customer service and a strong commitment to innovation, we are shaping the future of finance through technology, collaboration, and bold execution.

Today, Bybit is recognized as one of the most trusted and transparent platforms in the digital asset industry, continuing to expand its global presence while building the infrastructure for the next generation of financial services.

Job responsibilities

Responsible for daily business support and 4x capacity guarantee for global and local financial-level storage components (SLA < = 99.99%, RTO < = 5mins, RPO = 0, Delay < 100ms), and propose improvement suggestions for high-risk changes and repetitive inefficiencies, and promote implementation

Responsible for global and local station financial-level storage components and overall architecture risk identification and hidden danger governance (including but not limited to: effectively blocking big key/showSQL hidden dangers generated by function iteration; identifying and governing scenarios with strong data dependence on Redis, discovering and governing unreasonable architecture design behind abnormal alarms).

Responsible for storing component (MySQL/Redis) size version, security patch upgrade (RTO < = 2mins, RPO = 0, efficiency = 3.5 person-days/cluster), ensuring smooth business upgrade, and effective emergency rollback in abnormal scenarios (RTO < = 5mins).

Responsible for version planning of storage components (MySQL/Redis/TiDB/Doris/ES/MongoDB), software risk identification (BUG type), architecture risk identification (compatibility with availability zone failures), hardware risk identification (affinity), and promoting cloud vendors and architecture teams to schedule and govern hidden dangers

Responsible for continuously iterating storage component (MySQL/Redis/TiDB/Doris/ES/MongoDB) standard construction, cost governance standard construction, and implementing new standards management platform and inspection platform

Responsible for the design and development of daily database requirements for the database management platform (Golang)

Job requirements

Strong execution ability ensures high-quality