SRE DBA II: Vitess & Cassandra Reliability

Backblaze; Poza Rica; Presencial; MXN 900.000 - 1.400.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Backblaze is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a DBA focus to ensure the stability and reliability of production database systems, primarily Vitess and Cassandra, within a Kubernetes environment. You will build automation, improve observability, and support incident response across services.

Join a team that collaborates with engineering, product, and operations to embed reliability practices, participate in on-call rotations, and help drive capacity planning and disaster recovery

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 2–4 years of site reliability, systems engineering, or operations focused on database systems.
• Experience with large-scale, production-grade systems; Level 2 DBA SRE responsibilities.

Responsabilidades

• Operate and maintain high-availability database systems—Vitess and Cassandra—per runbooks.
• Optimize database performance with query tuning, indexing, and schema design.
• Automate common operational tasks and contribute to monitoring/alerting frameworks.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations to improve reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.

Conocimientos

Linux administration

SRE concepts

Python

Go

SQL/NoSQL

MySQL performance tuning

Kubernetes

Vitess

Automation

Educación

B.S. in Computer Science or related

Herramientas

Vitess

MySQL

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Descripción del empleo

Backblaze is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a DBA focus to ensure the stability and reliability of production database systems, primarily Vitess and Cassandra, within a Kubernetes environment. You will build automation, improve observability, and support incident response across services.

Join a team that collaborates with engineering, product, and operations to embed reliability practices, participate in on-call rotations, and help drive capacity planning and disaster recovery