Site Reliability Engineer lII (DBA) - LATAM

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

About Backblaze

Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we're helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands.

Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $136M ARR and is the leading specialized storage cloud, managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals.

But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We're seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III (DBA) in LATAM to join our team!

About the Role

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III with a Database Administration focus to help ensure the stability, scalability, and reliability of our production database systems, primarily Vitess (distributed MySQL) and Cassandra, alongside the rest of our production services and infrastructure.

This database specialization is layered on top of the full SRE III scope on the team. You will carry the same on-call, incident response, and service ownership expectations as other SRE IIIs, with database systems serving as your area of deepest technical ownership.

Because our SRE Database Engineering function is new, this role will also help establish its operational foundation by designing database architecture and developing the runbooks, escalation guidance, procedures, and training materials that our Level 1 and Level 2 SRE Database Engineers will use as they onboard.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience with production database systems, Linux, automation, distributed systems, Kubernetes, observability, and incident response, with a proactive approach to reliability and operational excellence.

What You'll Do:

• Database Architecture & Administration:

• Service Reliability & Operations:

• Automation & Tooling:

• Project Management & Collaboration:

• Incident Response:

• What We Value:

Required Qualifications:

• 6-8 years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure operations, database engineering, or similar roles, with meaningful experience supporting production database systems.
• Deep hands-on experience with MySQL and distributed or sharded database systems.
• Experience with Vitess in a production environment strongly preferred.
• Experience administering and supporting NoSQL databases such as Cassandra.
• Experience designing high-availability database architecture, replication topology, backup strategies, and disaster recovery processes.
• Strong SQL skills, including query performance analysis, indexing, schema design, and troubleshooting.
• Solid Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with security-focused operations including patching, system hardening, access controls, and vulnerability remediation.
• Strong understanding of service reliability concepts including monitoring, alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Experience working with containers and orchestration platforms including Kubernetes and Docker.
• Comfortable operating in Kubernetes and Vitess environments using tools such as kubectl, mysqlsh, and Vitess keyspaces.
• Experience with infrastructure and configuration management technologies including Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and HashiCorp products such as Vault and Nomad.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Python, Bash, or Go.
• Experience establishing operational procedures, runbooks, documentation, and escalation processes.
• Experience mentoring, training, or helping onboard engineers into complex technical environments.
• Experience supporting large-scale, production-grade systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct production experience with Vitess.
• Experience with large-scale distributed or sharded MySQL environments.
• Experience with Cassandra or similar distributed NoSQL databases at scale.
• Experience in SaaS, cloud services, service provider, or large-scale distributed systems environments.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with ITIL/OSS practices and SLA/SLO management.
• Experience leading Production Readiness Reviews.
• Experience developing onboarding or technical training materials for engineers.
• Experience acting as a technical escalation point for database or infrastructure incidents.

At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you're reading. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Learning, developing, and growing are key parts of our culture. We're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in various ways. We want people to feel comfortable expressing their true selves and to come, stay, and do their best work here.

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