Remote SRE DBA – Vitess & Cassandra

WebHosting; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESPP program

Job summary

Backblaze is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III (DBA) to ensure the stability and reliability of production database systems, primarily Vitess and Cassandra. You will design architecture, develop runbooks, and own on-call incident response with a focus on scalable, observable infrastructure.

You’ll automate routine DB tasks, participate in disaster recovery planning, and collaborate with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and data infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• Production database systems (Vitess, Cassandra) experience required.
• Strong Linux, automation, distributed systems, Kubernetes and observability experience.
• Ability to design database architecture, runbooks, and incident procedures.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and own highly available Vitess and Cassandra DB architectures.
• Document runbooks, escalation guides, and SOPs for SRE DB Engineers.
• Optimize DB performance via tuning, indexing, and capacity planning.
• Own backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Lead DR testing and incident response for database systems.
• Drive security hardening, access control, patching, and compliance.
• Collaborate on resharding, replication, and architecture decisions.
• Support on-call rotations and post-incident reviews.
• Develop automation for routine DB tasks and tooling pipelines.
• Integrate runbooks with monitoring, CI/CD, and IaC frameworks.
• Mentor Level 1/2 DB Engineers and create training materials.
• Identify automation opportunities and operational efficiencies.

Skills

Linux

Automation

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Observability

Incident response

Database design

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

FireHydrant

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

kubectl

Vitess

mysqlsh

Docker

Job description

Backblaze is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III (DBA) to ensure the stability and reliability of production database systems, primarily Vitess and Cassandra. You will design architecture, develop runbooks, and own on-call incident response with a focus on scalable, observable infrastructure.

You’ll automate routine DB tasks, participate in disaster recovery planning, and collaborate with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and data infrastructure teams.