LATAM SRE Database Engineer – MySQL, Vitess, Cassandra

Backblaze External Website; United States; Remote; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Backblaze is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III (DBA) to strengthen production database systems, focusing on Vitess (distributed MySQL) and Cassandra, within a broad SRE scope. The role involves architecture, on-call duties, and building runbooks to support Level 1/2 engineers.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with Linux, automation, distributed systems, Kubernetes, observability, and incident response, plus scripting skills in Python/Bash/Go.

Qualifikationen

• 6-8 years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure operations, or similar roles.
• Deep hands-on experience with MySQL and distributed/sharded database systems.
• Experience with Vitess in a production environment strongly preferred.
• Experience administering Cassandra.
• Experience designing high-availability database architecture, replication topology, backup strategies, and DR processes.
• Strong SQL skills, including performance analysis, indexing, and schema design.
• Solid Linux systems administration and troubleshooting.
• Security-focused operations including patching and hardening.
• Understanding of monitoring, alerting, incident response, and SLOs/SLIs.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Vault, and Nomad.
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Experience creating runbooks and escalation procedures.
• Mentoring or onboarding engineers.

Aufgaben

• Design and administer production database architectures (Vitess, MySQL) and ensure high availability.
• Manage service reliability, incident response, and on-call rotations.
• Develop automation tooling to support databases and platform operations.
• Collaborate across teams to plan projects and improvements.
• Lead incident response and post-incident analyses.

Kenntnisse

MySQL

Vitess

Cassandra

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Vault

Nomad

Python

Bash

Go

SRE concepts

Runbooks

Incident response

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

kubectl

mysqlsh

Vitess keyspaces

Jobbeschreibung

Backblaze is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III (DBA) to strengthen production database systems, focusing on Vitess (distributed MySQL) and Cassandra, within a broad SRE scope. The role involves architecture, on-call duties, and building runbooks to support Level 1/2 engineers.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with Linux, automation, distributed systems, Kubernetes, observability, and incident response, plus scripting skills in Python/Bash/Go.