Software Engineering Professional

Job Req ID: 60783

Posting Date: 30-July-2026

Function: Software Engineering

Location: Bengaluru

Salary: Competitive

About the role

• The Physical Network Inventory team are responsible for maintaining the GIS inventory systems that are used to plan and build the Openreach network.
• These systems have been fundamental in supporting the Openreach rollout of full fibre to the UK.
• The role also involves futureproofing these critical systems to ensure they remain available, operational and well supported into the future.

What you’ll be doing

As a hands-on Backend Engineer with deep PostgreSQL expertise you will be responsible for application development with strong database engineering skills, including performance tuning, security (RLS), and DBA responsibilities. The role will contribute across backend development, database design, and DevOps-enabled delivery.
Backend Development
• Design and develop scalable backend services using Java (Spring Boot) or equivalent frameworks
• Build and optimize data-intensive APIs and services
• Collaborate with frontend and cross-functional teams to integrate backend systems.
• Ensure clean code, modular architecture, and maintainability
• Implement best practices for error handling, logging, and observability.
PostgreSQL Database Expertise (Primary Responsibility)
• Design and maintain robust, scalable, high-performance database schemas
• Write highly optimized complex SQL queries, functions and stored procedures (PL/pgSQL)
• Perform query tuning, execution plan analysis and performance optimization
• Should have worked on postGIS.
• Manage indexing strategies, partitioning, and data modelling
• Ensure data consistency, integrity, and efficient storage utilization.
DBA & Database Operations
• Monitor and troubleshoot database performance and reliability issues.
• Implement and manage backup, recovery, and disaster recovery (DR) strategies
• Configure and maintain replication, high availability (HA), and failover mechanisms.
• Tune database parameters (autovacuum, memory, connections, etc.)
Security & RLS (Critical Skill)
• Design and implement Row-Level Security (RLS) policies in PostgreSQL
• Manage role-based access control (RBAC) and fine-grained privilege.
• Ensure data protection standards (masking, encryption, auditing)
• Conduct periodic database security assessments and vulnerability reviews.
DevOps & Platform Contributions
• Integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines (schema migrations, version control)• Work with containerized environments like Docker/Kubernetes DB services• Automate database deployments and monitoring• Collaborate with DevOps teams for environment setup, performance tuning and release management.

Essential Skills / Experience

Required Skills & Experience
• Strong experience in backend development using Java/Spring Boot (or similar)
• Deep expertise in PostgreSQL (version 12+)
• Advanced knowledge of SQL, PL/pgSQL, postGIS and query optimization
• Hands-on experience with database performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of RLS, RBAC, and database security principles
• Experience with HA setups, replication (streaming/logical), and failover
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Experience working in Linux environments

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, GCP Cloud SQL)
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.)
• Knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes etc)
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code is plus.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.