Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases

🔥 20 hours ago

🏈 Alabama, Arizona, +31 more states – Remote

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💵 $125k - $135k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Vultr

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

🔧 Hardware

💰 $329M Debt Financing - Vultr on 2025-06

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • Hardware

Vultr is a global cloud infrastructure provider offering on-demand virtual machines, bare-metal servers, GPU-accelerated instances, managed databases, object and block storage, Kubernetes, and networking services. The platform emphasizes AI and HPC workloads with a broad selection of AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, fast networking, and 32+ data center regions, plus a marketplace of deployable apps and developer-friendly APIs. Vultr targets developers and businesses seeking affordable, scalable, and compliant cloud compute and storage alternatives to hyperscalers.

📋 Description

• Own and evolve comprehensive monitoring and alerting for MySQL InnoDB Clusters and PostgreSQL infrastructure across multiple datacenters • Establish and execute a quarterly backup verification and disaster recovery testing program across all database systems • Serve as first-tier on-call responder for database incidents, executing documented runbooks and escalating to senior engineering when architecture-level decisions are required • Monitor and maintain replication health across databases • Own database user lifecycle management, including provisioning, deprovisioning, access audits, and role-based access control • Execute and track security compliance remediation, including pen-test findings, GRC audit requirements, and encryption-at-rest verification • Manage operational health of the Debezium/Kafka Connect data pipeline in coordination with the Kafka infrastructure team • Build and maintain Puppet profiles for database infrastructure configuration management • Write PHP, Python, or Go automation tooling to reduce operational toil • Develop and maintain runbooks, operational documentation, and disaster recovery procedures • Partner with the Senior Platform Engineer (Databases) as a peer, reviewing work, sharing on-call, and splitting ownership of database reliability across production systems

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Database Operations roles in production environments at scale • Deep operational expertise with MySQL in production — InnoDB Cluster, Group Replication, MySQL Router, and ProxySQL — with strong troubleshooting skills for replication, performance, and reliability issues • Production experience with PostgreSQL — replication, high availability, performance tuning, and operational management • Strong proficiency with configuration management tools (Puppet preferred) and infrastructure-as-code practices • Experience with database backup tools (xtrabackup, pg_dump, mysqldump) and disaster recovery procedures • Proficiency in PHP and Python or Go for automation, tooling, and integration with existing codebases • Experience with database observability — Prometheus exporters, Grafana dashboards, alerting frameworks, and SLO/error-budget methodology • Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Debezium, or similar change-data-capture pipelines • Strong incident response skills with experience in on-call rotations, including post-incident review and remediation • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering teams as a senior peer • Must be residing in one of the listed U.S. states • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans • 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting • Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year • 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan • Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary • 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years • Anniversary Bonus each year • $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year • Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month • Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month • Company paid Wellable subscription