Senior Database SRE - High-Impact Cloud Reliability

Vultr; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance premiums

401(k) matching

Professional development reimbursement

Paid time off + Sabbatical program

Remote office stipend

Internet reimbursement

Gym membership reimbursement

Wellable subscription

Job summary

Vultr is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases to strengthen the Platform Engineering team. You will own database monitoring, backups, DR testing, on-call response, replication health, and access management across MySQL InnoDB Clusters and PostgreSQL.

You will implement automation in PHP, Python or Go, and work with Debezium/Kafka Connect alongside the Kafka team to ensure reliable database infrastructure powering a global cloud platform.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in SRE/DevOps or DB Operations in production at scale.
• Deep ops with MySQL InnoDB Cluster, Group Replication, MySQL Router, ProxySQL.
• PostgreSQL replication, HA, performance tuning, and ops management.
• Experience with Puppet and IaC.
• Experience with database backup tools and DR procedures.
• Proficiency in PHP and Python or Go for automation.
• Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Debezium, or similar pipelines.
• Strong incident response and on-call rotation experience.
• Excellent cross-team communication.

Responsibilities

• Own monitoring and alerting for MySQL InnoDB Clusters and PostgreSQL across datacenters.
• Run quarterly backup verifications and DR testing.
• Serve as first-tier on-call for database incidents and escalate as needed.
• Monitor replication health and manage DB user lifecycles and RBAC.
• Ensure encryption-at-rest and security remediation with audits.
• Maintain Debezium/Kafka Connect data pipeline health.
• Develop automation tooling to reduce toil using PHP/Python/Go.
• Document runbooks and disaster recovery procedures.
• Collaborate with Senior Platform Engineer on database reliability.

Skills

SRE/DevOps experience

MySQL InnoDB Clusters

PostgreSQL administration

Puppet/Infrastructure-as-code

Backup & DR planning

Automation (PHP/Python/Go)

Kafka Connect/Debezium

On-call incident response

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Xtrabackup

pg_dump

mysqldump

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

Vultr is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases to strengthen the Platform Engineering team. You will own database monitoring, backups, DR testing, on-call response, replication health, and access management across MySQL InnoDB Clusters and PostgreSQL.

You will implement automation in PHP, Python or Go, and work with Debezium/Kafka Connect alongside the Kafka team to ensure reliable database infrastructure powering a global cloud platform.