Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Database Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate highly available MySQL and MongoDB clusters across cloud environments.
• Manage replication, sharding, backups, point-in-time recovery, upgrades, and disaster recovery.
• Tune query performance, schemas, and indexes in partnership with application engineers.
• Extend observability with Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, dashboards, and actionable alerts.
• Participate in the Platform on-call rotation and lead incident response for data-tier issues.
• Write blameless postmortems that drive durable improvements.
• Improve database disaster recovery, security, and compliance through encryption, access controls, audit logging, and backup-integrity practices.
• Evaluate and operate ScyllaDB/Cassandra and Elasticsearch where appropriate.
• Build automation, tooling, operators, and AI-assisted workflows to reduce repetitive work and accelerate incident response and root-cause analysis.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or database reliability roles.
• At least 3 years owning production databases.
• Production experience operating highly available MySQL and MongoDB at scale, including replication, sharding, backups, point-in-time recovery, and failover drills.
• End-to-end database performance diagnosis across query plans, indexes, locking, operating systems, storage, and networks.
• Experience with at least two of bare-metal Linux, containerized workloads such as Docker or Kubernetes, and a major cloud platform.
• Google Cloud experience preferred; AWS or Azure experience is acceptable.
• Experience with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or comparable observability systems.
• Production programming experience with Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.
• Clear communication during incidents and in postmortems.
• Ability to evaluate managed versus self-managed databases based on availability, cost, and operational burden.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Nice-to-haves

• ScyllaDB/Cassandra experience.
• Elasticsearch experience.
• Experience using AI copilots, agents, or custom automation for incident response, root-cause analysis, or developer workflows.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive pay.
• Equity with significant upside.
• Flexible schedules and time off.
• Benefits designed to support healthy, well-balanced employees.
• Sabbatical after every five years of service.