Remote Cassandra Reliability Engineer — Scale & Automate

Arkhya Tech Inc.; México; Remote; MXN 1,764,000 - 3,780,000; Part time

Job summary

Arkhya Tech Inc. seeks a Senior Database Reliability Engineer with deep Apache Cassandra expertise to manage production clusters for a global SaaS platform.

The role emphasizes reliability, performance tuning, high availability, and lifecycle automation in a remote LATAM setting. You will automate operations with Python and IaC, guide incident responses, and collaborate with software teams on data modeling and query optimization, mentoring teammates and supporting on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production experience with Apache Cassandra.
• Strong knowledge of distributed database internals, replication, partitioning, and performance tuning.
• Experience with backup and recovery, capacity planning, upgrades, and incident management.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and support production on-call operations.

Responsibilities

• Manage database availability, performance, scaling, and lifecycle operations.
• Handle backups, recovery, replication, high availability, and major-version upgrades.
• Automate database operations using Python and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and self-service database provisioning workflows.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, lead root-cause analyses, and improve reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on data modeling, schema design, and query optimization.
• Mentor team members and participate in the on-call rotation.

Skills

Apache Cassandra

Automation (Python)

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Linux

OCI

Prometheus

Grafana

GitOps

PostgreSQL

YugabyteDB

On-call operations

Tools

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

OCI

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

GitOps

Job description

Arkhya Tech Inc. seeks a Senior Database Reliability Engineer with deep Apache Cassandra expertise to manage production clusters for a global SaaS platform.

The role emphasizes reliability, performance tuning, high availability, and lifecycle automation in a remote LATAM setting. You will automate operations with Python and IaC, guide incident responses, and collaborate with software teams on data modeling and query optimization, mentoring teammates and supporting on-call rotations.