LATAM SRE DBA for Vitess & Cassandra

Backblaze; Poza Rica; Presencial; MXN 2.045.000 - 2.789.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Backblaze is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III with a Database Administration focus to ensure the stability, scalability, and reliability of production database systems, primarily Vitess and Cassandra, alongside the rest of our services. You will own architecture, runbooks, and incident response across distributed databases.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with MySQL, Vitess, Cassandra, and Kubernetes, and can lead reliability initiatives, capacity planning, and disaster recovery

Formación

• 6–8 years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, or similar roles with production database systems.
• Deep hands-on experience with MySQL, Vitess, Cassandra, and distributed databases.
• Experience administering high-availability database architectures, replication, backup/DR strategies, and disaster recovery.

Responsabilidades

• Design, deploy, and own highly available database architectures for Vitess and Cassandra.
• Define operational procedures, runbooks, and escalation guidance for SRE Database Engineers.
• Improve database performance via tuning, indexing, schema design, and capacity planning.
• Develop automation to reduce operational toil and integrate with CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead on-call, incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Collaborate with Kubernetes, Terraform, and HashiCorp tools to optimize deployments.

Conocimientos

Vitess

MySQL

Cassandra

Kubernetes

Linux

Automation

Python

Bash

Go

Monitoring

Educación

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Herramientas

Vitess

MySQL

Cassandra

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

HashiCorp Vault

Nomad

Descripción del empleo

Backblaze is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III with a Database Administration focus to ensure the stability, scalability, and reliability of production database systems, primarily Vitess and Cassandra, alongside the rest of our services. You will own architecture, runbooks, and incident response across distributed databases.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with MySQL, Vitess, Cassandra, and Kubernetes, and can lead reliability initiatives, capacity planning, and disaster recovery