Staff Database Reliability Engineer

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 CA$180k - CA$250k / year

⏰ Full Time

⚪️ Entry-level

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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📋 Description

• Design and evolve globally distributed database systems for performance, availability, scalability, and continuity in bare-metal and cloud environments • Lead complex initiatives, establish technical direction, and influence engineering decisions across teams • Identify opportunities to reduce operational complexity and consolidate the database and infrastructure technology footprint • Design and implement automation for provisioning, configuration, deployment, upgrades, testing, maintenance, and database change management • Establish practices for monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, maintenance, security, IAM, auditing, and traceability • Diagnose performance and reliability problems across globally distributed, latency-sensitive infrastructure and drive issues to durable resolution • Lead retrospectives and root-cause analysis for significant data-system incidents • Evaluate emerging technologies, develop data-platform roadmaps, and communicate priorities and trade-offs • Mentor engineers through architecture reviews, technical guidance, documentation, and hands-on collaboration • Collaborate with platform engineering, infrastructure, software engineering, operations, and data teams

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience spanning database reliability engineering, database administration, site reliability engineering focused on data systems, platform engineering, or a comparable infrastructure role • Experience operating large-scale production database systems where reliability, latency, availability, and performance matter • Deep expertise with relational and distributed data systems and meaningful production experience with several technologies such as MySQL, MariaDB, Galera, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Aerospike, Redis, StarRocks, or Vertica • Experience deploying and operating stateful systems across Kubernetes and bare-metal infrastructure • Understanding of relational data architecture, schema design, replication, availability, performance, scale, and continuity • Experience with infrastructure tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, or comparable technologies • Ability to automate infrastructure and operational workflows using Python, Go, Bash/Shell, Java, Kotlin, or another appropriate programming language • Experience building or operating observability systems using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or equivalent tooling • Understanding of database change management and experience with Liquibase, Flyway, Alembic, or similar systems • Ability to troubleshoot complex failures across distributed infrastructure and identify root causes • Comfort operating at staff level, including setting direction, navigating ambiguity, mentoring engineers, balancing operational needs against long-term architecture, and influencing teams outside the immediate domain • Ability to communicate complex technical decisions clearly to technical colleagues and stakeholders

🏖️ Benefits

• RRSP matching • Career stability and longevity • Independence from external stakeholders • Opportunity to work on globally distributed infrastructure • Opportunity for technical leadership and mentorship

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