Senior Software Engineer II - 2026_1785

Role Title: Senior Software Engineer II Database Engineering

Position Summary:

Marriott International is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Revenue Management and Pricing Technology team. In this role, youll design, develop, and deliver scalable, cloud-native applications that support critical business functions. Youll work on our user interfaces using technologies like JavaScript, ReactJS and Redux, and play a key role in modernizing our platform architecture.

This position is ideal for an experienced engineer with 68 years of hands-on development experience and a track record of leading small teams or projects, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, and driving technical excellence.
Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain user interfaces using ReactJS, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.
• Utilize designs from Figma and implement them in ReactJS, ensuring pixel-perfect accuracy.
• Implement and maintain state management solutions using Redux or similar libraries.
• Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Conduct design and code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver high-quality features.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and contribute to team growth

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with significant expertise in database engineering and large-scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise database solutions using PostgreSQL and cloud-native database technologies.
• 3+ years of experience developing and operating applications on AWS Cloud.
• Strong experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing both relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, Couchbase, DynamoDB, Document DB, Cassandra, or equivalent.
• Proven expertise in database performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategies, workload analysis, and capacity planning.
• Experience designing highly scalable database architectures supporting high-volume transactional and analytical workloads.
• Strong understanding of database replication, high availability, disaster recovery, backup and recovery strategies.
• Experience developing database sharding, partitioning, and data archival strategies to support large-scale growth.
• Experience designing caching solutions using Redis, ElastiCache, or similar technologies to improve performance and reduce database load.
• Experience with distributed systems and managing challenges related to scalability, resiliency, consistency, and fault tolerance.
• Experience leveraging Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices using Git, Jenkins, Terraform, GitHub Actions, or similar technologies.
• Experience implementing observability solutions including database monitoring, alerting, logging, and performance analytics.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with the ability to lead complex technical investigations.
• Experience leading database modernization, migration, performance optimization, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Expert-level hands-on experience with PostgreSQL administration, performance tuning, replication, partitioning, and query optimization.
• Experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS PostgreSQL, or equivalent cloud-native database platforms.
• Experience performing database upgrades, migrations, and schema evolution with minimal business downtime.
• Experience optimizing large-scale databases containing TB-scale datasets and high transaction volumes.
• Experience establishing database observability using tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent.
• Experience conducting database capacity planning, cost optimization, and infrastructure right-sizing initiatives.
• Ability to mentor engineers and provide technical leadership on database architecture, scalability, and performance engineering topics.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with PostgreSQL-based systems operating at TB-scale datasets and high transaction volumes.
• Experience with database sharding, partitioning, archival, and data lifecycle management strategies.
• Experience driving database modernization and cloud transformation programs in enterprise environments.
• Background in travel, hospitality, or pricing systems.
• Experience contributing to architectural decisions or solution design.
• Agile/Scrum team experience.

Leadership & Collaboration:

• Technical Mentorship Guide and support junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on collaboration.
• Strategic Thinking Translate business needs into scalable technical solutions and influence architectural direction.
• Team Leadership Take ownership of team deliverables, foster accountability, and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Cross-Functional Communication Effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Vision Alignment Ensure engineering efforts align with organizational goals and long-term technology strategy.

Education and Certifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certification

Work location: Hyderabad, India.

Work mode: Hybrid