Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases

The role

You will be the reliability and operational backbone for database infrastructure including MySQL InnoDB Clusters and PostgreSQL. You will own monitoring, backup verification, disaster recovery testing, on-call incident response, and automation.

What you will do

• Own and evolve monitoring and alerting for MySQL InnoDB Clusters and PostgreSQL infrastructure
• Execute a quarterly backup verification and disaster recovery testing program
• Serve as first-tier on-call responder for database incidents
• Monitor and maintain replication health across databases
• Own database user lifecycle management including provisioning and access audits
• Execute and track security compliance remediation
• Manage operational health of the Debezium/Kafka Connect data pipeline
• Build and maintain Puppet profiles and write automation tooling in PHP, Python, or Go
• Develop and maintain runbooks, operational documentation, and disaster recovery procedures
• Partner with the Senior Platform Engineer to review work and share on-call duties

Required qualifications

• 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 including InnoDB Cluster, Group Replication, MySQL Router, and ProxySQL
• Production experience with PostgreSQL replication, high availability, performance tuning, and operational management
• Strong proficiency with configuration management tools and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Experience with database backup tools such as xtrabackup, pg_dump, mysqldump and disaster recovery procedures
• Proficiency in PHP and Python or Go for automation, tooling, and integration
• Experience with database observability including 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
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

• Puppet preferred

Benefits

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans
• 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
• Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
• Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary
• 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years
• Anniversary Bonus each year
• $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
• Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
• Company paid Wellable subscription

Before you apply

• We are currently accepting applications from candidates residing in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana

About the company

Vultr is a cloud infrastructure company with 33 global cloud data center locations. It is the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.