Senior Site Reliability Engineer Databases

You will operate and improve the reliability of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and related database systems across multiple datacenters. You will own monitoring, backups, disaster-recovery testing, replication health, access management, compliance remediation, and first-tier incident response. You will build automation and configuration-management profiles, maintain runbooks, and coordinate database reliability ownership with a senior platform engineer.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve monitoring and alerting for MySQL InnoDB Clusters and PostgreSQL infrastructure
• Execute quarterly backup verification and disaster-recovery testing
• Respond to database incidents using documented runbooks and escalate architecture-level decisions
• Monitor and maintain database replication health
• Manage database user provisioning, deprovisioning, access audits, and role-based access control
• Execute and track security-compliance remediation
• Manage operational health of the Debezium and Kafka Connect data pipeline
• Build Puppet profiles and PHP, Python, or Go automation tooling
• Maintain runbooks, operational documentation, and disaster-recovery procedures
• Share database reliability and on-call ownership across production systems

Requirements

• 7+ years of Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Database Operations experience in production environments at scale
• Operational expertise with MySQL, InnoDB Cluster, Group Replication, MySQL Router, and ProxySQL
• Production experience with PostgreSQL replication, high availability, performance tuning, and operations
• Configuration-management and infrastructure-as-code experience
• Experience with database backup tools and disaster-recovery procedures
• PHP and Python or Go proficiency
• Database observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, alerting, SLOs, and error budgets
• Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Debezium, or change-data-capture pipelines
• Incident response and on-call rotation experience
• Communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums
• 401(k) matching 100% up to 4% with immediate vesting
• $2,500 annual professional-development reimbursement
• 11 holidays, paid-time-off accrual, and rollover plan
• Increased PTO at 3- and 10-year anniversaries
• One month paid sabbatical every 5 years
• Annual anniversary bonus
• Remote-office setup stipend of $500 in the first year and $400 in subsequent years
• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
• Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
• Company-paid Wellable subscription