Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases

Overview

Own the reliability and operational health of Vultr's database infrastructure, including MySQL InnoDB Clusters and PostgreSQL. Apply SRE practices across monitoring, backup verification, disaster recovery, incident response, access management, and automation.

What you'll do

• Own monitoring and alerting for MySQL and PostgreSQL infrastructure across multiple datacenters.
• Execute quarterly backup verification and disaster recovery testing.
• Respond to database incidents through on-call rotations and documented runbooks.
• Monitor and maintain database replication health.
• Manage database users, access audits, and role-based access control.
• Remediate security and compliance findings, including encryption-at-rest verification.
• Build configuration-management profiles and automation to reduce operational toil.

What you'll need

• 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Database Operations roles in production environments at scale.
• Deep production expertise with MySQL InnoDB Cluster, Group Replication, MySQL Router, and ProxySQL.
• Production experience with PostgreSQL replication, high availability, performance tuning, and operations.
• Proficiency in Puppet or similar configuration-management tools and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience with xtrabackup, pg_dump, mysqldump, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Proficiency in PHP and Python or Go for automation and tooling.
• Experience with observability, Kafka Connect or Debezium, and on-call incident response.

Details

• Remote role for candidates residing in specified U.S. states.
• Compensation: $125,000–$135,000 yearly.