Site Reliability Engineer II, DBA

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Argentina, +3 more countries.

📋 Description

• Manage and oversee high-availability database systems, primarily utilizing Vitess (distributed MySQL) and Cassandra, following the prescribed architecture and runbooks.

• Enhance database performance through effective query optimization, indexing techniques, and schema design.

• Implement established backup, recovery, and replication protocols, and escalate architectural changes to senior DBA SREs as needed.

• Ensure compliance with database security standards and manage access controls.

• Support the availability and reliability of essential services across production environments.

• Monitor service health metrics using SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, raising alerts when thresholds are in jeopardy.

• Engage in on-call rotations, incident response activities, and post-incident evaluations.

• Adhere to established ITIL/OSS protocols for incident, change, problem, and capacity management.

• Create automation for routine operational tasks to minimize manual efforts and reduce toil.

• Contribute to monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Catchpoint, and ELK, integrating runbooks with FireHydrant.

• Collaborate with CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and infrastructure as code tools including Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.

• Develop scripts in Bash, Python, or Go to enhance system reliability and efficiency.

• Partner with engineering, product, and operations teams to design and operate resilient systems.

• Assist in capacity planning and participate in disaster recovery drills.

• Coordinate with vendors and service providers to troubleshoot service issues and monitor SLA performance.

• Document systems, share insights, and foster a culture focused on reliability in engineering.

• Contribute to the creation of playbooks, runbooks, and operational documentation.

• Identify recurring problems and suggest long-term enhancements.

• Advocate for reliability-oriented practices within development and operations teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• 2–4 years of experience in site reliability, systems engineering, or operations focused on database systems.

• Familiarity with large-scale, production-level systems.

• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting capabilities.

• Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.

• Proficient in at least one scripting language: Python, Bash, or Go.

• Understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices principles.

• Awareness of incident response and operational best practices.

• Practical experience with MySQL performance tuning, replication, and disaster recovery strategies.

• Proficient in SQL and NoSQL database management.

• Experience in a SaaS, service provider, or distributed systems setting.

• Knowledge of ITIL/OSS methodologies and SLO/SLAs.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Ability to work autonomously, take ownership, and lead projects from the identification of problems through to their resolution.

🏝️ Benefits

• The job posting does not specify any particular benefits, perks, or additional compensation.

• Offers a remote work arrangement for candidates located in Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, or Mexico.