Senior SRE & DBA (Vitess/Cassandra) — Remote

Webhosting; Argentina; Presencial; ARS 181.395.000 - 272.092.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Backblaze is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (DBA focus) to help ensure the stability, scalability, and reliability of production database systems – primarily Vitess and Cassandra – across our services and infrastructure. You will work with engineering, product, and operations to embed reliability practices into day-to-day development and operations.

The role emphasizes building automation, improving observability, incident response, and running on-call rotations.

Formación

• Experience as Site Reliability Engineer with a DBA focus.
• Proficient with Vitess and Cassandra database environments.
• Automation & scripting skills (Bash, Python, Go).
• Familiar with monitoring/observability tools and incident response.

Responsabilidades

• Operate and maintain Vitess and Cassandra databases.
• Tune queries, indexing, and schema design for performance.
• Execute backup, recovery, and replication procedures.
• Ensure database security and access control.
• Monitor service health with SLIs/SLOs and participate in on-call rotations.
• Develop automation and tooling to reduce toil.
• Contribute to monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks.

Herramientas

Vitess

Cassandra

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Go

Python

Bash

Descripción del empleo

Backblaze is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (DBA focus) to help ensure the stability, scalability, and reliability of production database systems – primarily Vitess and Cassandra – across our services and infrastructure. You will work with engineering, product, and operations to embed reliability practices into day-to-day development and operations.

The role emphasizes building automation, improving observability, incident response, and running on-call rotations.