Site Reliability Engineer – DBA

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🌐 Colombia, Costa Rica, +1 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Backblaze

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2007

🛍️ eCommerce

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $5M Series A on 2012-07

Cloud Storage • eCommerce • Enterprise

Backblaze is a cloud storage company that provides scalable and secure data backup solutions for both businesses and individuals. Their B2 Cloud Storage service offers S3 compatible object storage, allowing users to easily protect and manage their data with transparent pricing. Backblaze specializes in automatic and unlimited backup services for computer systems, ensuring data protection and recovery options for users, while also supporting integration with applications for enhanced functionality.

📋 Description

• Design, deploy, and own highly available Vitess and Cassandra database architecture • Establish and document operational procedures, runbooks, and escalation guidance • Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing, schema design, and capacity planning • Own backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery strategies • Drive database security, access control, patching, hardening, and compliance practices • Serve as an escalation point for complex database and infrastructure incidents • Support availability and durability of critical production services • Monitor service health using SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews • Develop automation and scripts to reduce operational toil • Contribute to Prometheus, Grafana, Catchpoint, ELK, and FireHydrant workflows • Work with CI/CD, configuration management, and infrastructure-as-code tools • Operate and troubleshoot Kubernetes and Docker production environments • Lead Production Readiness Reviews and support operational readiness of database-backed services • Build training plans, onboarding materials, and technical documentation • Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Operations, and DBA/Data Infrastructure teams • Assist with capacity planning, disaster recovery exercises, migrations, and infrastructure projects • Respond to incidents and develop long-term corrective actions

🎯 Requirements

• 6–8 years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure operations, database engineering, or similar roles, with meaningful experience supporting production database systems • Deep hands-on experience with MySQL and distributed or sharded database systems • Experience administering and supporting NoSQL databases such as Cassandra • Experience designing high-availability database architecture, replication topology, backup strategies, and disaster recovery processes • Strong SQL skills, including query performance analysis, indexing, schema design, and troubleshooting • Solid Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills • Experience with security-focused operations including patching, system hardening, access controls, and vulnerability remediation • Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets • Experience with Kubernetes and Docker • Experience with kubectl, mysqlsh, and Vitess keyspaces • Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Vault, and Nomad • Proficiency in Python, Bash, Go, or similar scripting language • Experience establishing operational procedures, runbooks, documentation, and escalation processes • Experience mentoring, training, or onboarding engineers • Experience supporting large-scale, production-grade systems • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer • Diversity, equity, and inclusion commitment • Culture encouraging learning, developing, and growing • Encouragement to express one's true self and do one's best work • Backblaze Employee Privacy Notice

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