Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Database Focus

Zoho; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

Fyerx is seeking a Database Site Reliability Engineer (DB SRE) to oversee stability, performance, and scaling of high-volume databases. You will build automated cluster management tools, optimize queries, manage multi-region replication, and design fault-tolerant configurations for maximum uptime and data safety.

The role emphasizes automated backups, real-time telemetry, and proactive alerts. You will work remotely on contract with offshore teams, leveraging cloud-native database expertise and

Qualifications

• 5–9 years of core systems or database administration experience.
• 4+ dedicated years managing high-scale cloud databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Aurora or NoSQL).
• AWS Database Specialty, Certified Postgres Professional, or Oracle DB cert. required.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain highly available database clusters across clouds with auto-scaling.
• Optimize sub-millisecond query performance and rewrite inefficient SQL.
• Automate backups, PITR, and multi-region failover validation.
• Build telemetry dashboards and alerts (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) for DB health.
• Write automation scripts (Python/Go/Bash) for maintenance and migrations.
• Remediate production bottlenecks like replication lag and deadlocks.
• Enforce encryption-at-rest and access controls to protect data.

Skills

Database reliability engineering

Cloud-native databases

Performance tuning

Tools

PgBouncer

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Python

Go

Bash

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Database Focus

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Database Focus

• Employment Type: Contract
• Work Mode: Remote
• Location: Offshore
• Total Experience Required: 5 to 9 years
• Relevant Experience Required: 4+ years of dedicated database reliability engineering or database administration (DBA) experience in high-throughput cloud environments
• Mandatory Certification: AWS Certified Database - Specialty, Certified Postgres Professional, or Oracle Database Administration Certified Professional

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Database Site Reliability Engineer (DB SRE) to oversee the stability, performance, and scaling limits of our high-volume transaction databases. The ideal candidate will build automated cluster management tools, orchestrate sub-millisecond query optimizations, manage multi-region replication layers, and design fault-tolerant configurations to ensure maximum database uptime and zero data loss.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain highly available database cluster topologies across public clouds, leveraging automated scaling, sharding mechanisms, and read-replica strategies.
• Optimize sub-millisecond database query performance, conducting rigorous index evaluations, identifying locking contentions, and rewrites of inefficient SQL scripts.
• Orchestrate automated backup and disaster recovery validation sweeps, configuring point-in-time recovery (PITR) parameters and multi-region failover tests.
• Build automated telemetry dashboards and proactive alerts utilizing monitoring frameworks (e.g., Prometheus , Grafana , Datadog ) to track database health metrics (IOPS, CPU utilization, connections).
• Write robust automation scripts using Python, Go, or Bash to manage recurring database maintenance routines, schema migration deployments, and resource adjustments.
• Diagnose and remediate production database performance bottlenecks, resolving replication lags, connection pool limits, memory usage leaks, and deadlocks.
• Enforce data safety and governance protocols, configuring encryption-at-rest policies, fine-grained access parameters, and compliance masking routines to secure sensitive records.

Requirements

• 5 to 9 years of core systems engineering or database administration experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively managing high-scale, cloud-native relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL , MySQL , Aurora ) or NoSQL databases.
• Strong technical mastery of database engine configurations, connection poolers (e.g., PgBouncer), infrastructure automation (Terraform), and system telemetry structures.
• Deep structural understanding of write-ahead logging (WAL), isolation levels, transaction mechanics, distributed storage bounds, and network latency impacts.
• Mandatory certification: AWS Database Specialty, Certified Postgres Professional, or Oracle Database Admin Certified Professional.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience implementing large-scale live database data migrations with minimal production operational windows.
• Familiarity with distributed database engines or streaming message queues (e.g., CockroachDB , Kafka , Debezium ) for real-time change data capture (CDC).