Senior DB SRE - Global Cloud Reliability & Automation

Vultr; El Paso (TX); On-site; USD 125,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% company-paid insurance premiums

401(k) match up to 4%

Professional Development Reimbursement

11 Holidays + PTO + rollover

Sabbatical after 3/10 years + annual 1

Remote office stipend

Internet reimbursement

Gym membership reimbursement

Wellable subscription

Job summary

Vultr is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases to join our Platform Engineering team. You will own database monitoring, backup verification, DR testing, on-call incident response, replication health, access management, and compliance remediation for MySQL and PostgreSQL across a global cloud platform.

You will write PHP, Python, or Go to automate and instrument everything you build, collaborating as a peer with the Senior Platform Engineer (Databases).

Qualifications

• 7+ years in SRE/DevOps or Database Operations at scale.
• Deep MySQL InnoDB Cluster, Group Replication, MySQL Router, and ProxySQL expertise.
• PostgreSQL replication, HA, performance tuning, and operational management.

Responsibilities

• Own monitoring and alerting for MySQL and PostgreSQL across datacenters.
• Establish and execute quarterly backup verification and disaster recovery testing.
• On-call responder for database incidents with documented runbooks.
• Monitor and maintain replication health across databases.
• Own database user lifecycle management — provisioning, deprovisioning, RBAC across all database systems.
• Execute security remediation including encryption-at-rest verification and audits.
• Manage Debezium/Kafka Connect data pipeline in coordination with Kafka team.
• Build Puppet profiles and automation tooling in PHP, Python, or Go to reduce toil.
• Develop runbooks, operational docs, and DR procedures for all database systems.
• Partner with Senior Platform Engineer (Databases) as a peer.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

MySQL InnoDB

PostgreSQL

Automation (PHP/Python/Go)

Incident response

Observability (Prometheus Grafana)

Puppet

IaC

Replication health

RBAC / Access control

Tools

Puppet

Prometheus

Grafana

Kafka Connect

Debezium

ProxySQL

MySQL Router

Job description

Vultr is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases to join our Platform Engineering team. You will own database monitoring, backup verification, DR testing, on-call incident response, replication health, access management, and compliance remediation for MySQL and PostgreSQL across a global cloud platform.

You will write PHP, Python, or Go to automate and instrument everything you build, collaborating as a peer with the Senior Platform Engineer (Databases).