vultr - Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases
Requirements
• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Database Operations roles in production environments at scale • Deep operational expertise with MySQL in production — InnoDB Cluster, Group Replication, MySQL Router, and ProxySQL — with strong troubleshooting skills for replication, performance, and reliability issues • Production experience with PostgreSQL — replication, high availability, performance tuning, and operational management • Strong proficiency with configuration management tools (Puppet preferred) and infrastructure-as-code practices • Experience with database backup tools (xtrabackup, pg_dump, mysqldump) and disaster recovery procedures • Proficiency in PHP and Python or Go for automation, tooling, and integration with existing codebases • Experience with database observability — Prometheus exporters, Grafana dashboards, alerting frameworks, and SLO/error-budget methodology • Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Debezium, or similar change-data-capture pipelines • Strong incident response skills with experience in on-call rotations, including post-incident review and remediation • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering teams as a senior peer
Responsibilities
• Own and evolve comprehensive monitoring and alerting for MySQL InnoDB Clusters, and PostgreSQL infrastructure across multiple datacenters • Establish and execute a quarterly backup verification and disaster recovery testing program across all database systems • Serve as first-tier on-call responder for database incidents, executing documented runbooks and escalating to senior engineering when architecture-level decisions are required • Monitor and maintain replication health across databases • Own database user lifecycle management — provisioning, deprovisioning, access audits, and role-based access control across all database systems • Execute and track security compliance remediation including pen-test findings, GRC audit requirements, and encryption-at-rest verification • Manage operational health of the Debezium/Kafka Connect data pipeline in coordination with the Kafka infrastructure team • Build and maintain Puppet profiles for database infrastructure configuration management and write PHP, Python, or Go automation tooling to reduce operational toil • Develop and maintain runbooks, operational documentation, and disaster recovery procedures for all database systems • Partner with the Senior Platform Engineer (Databases) as a peer — reviewing each other's work, sharing on-call, and splitting ownership of database reliability across production systems
Benefits
• $125,000 - $135,000 • We are currently accepting applications from candidates residing in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin. • INCLUSION & PRIVACY
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