Site Reliability Engineer ll (DBA)
Backblaze External Website2 months ago
Remote, Costa Rica +3 moreMid Level
Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain high-availability Vitess/MySQL and Cassandra database systems using established architecture and runbooks.
- Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, and schema design.
- Execute documented backup, recovery, replication, security, and access-control procedures.
- Monitor production service health using SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, and escalate issues when thresholds are at risk.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, post-incident reviews, capacity planning, and disaster recovery exercises.
- Develop automation and scripts to reduce operational toil and improve system reliability.
- Contribute to monitoring, logging, alerting, CI/CD, configuration management, and infrastructure as code tooling.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, operations, vendors, and service providers to troubleshoot issues and improve resilient operations.
- Maintain playbooks, runbooks, operational documentation, and reliability-focused processes.
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 centered around database systems.
- Experience with large-scale, production-grade systems and established database operations procedures.
- Solid Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Proficiency in at least one of Python, Bash, or Go.
- Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Understanding of Kubernetes and Docker, with Kubernetes/Vitess-on-Kubernetes experience preferred.
- Hands-on MySQL performance tuning, replication, and disaster recovery experience; Vitess or distributed/sharded MySQL experience is a plus.
- Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL database management.
- Experience in a SaaS, service provider, or distributed systems environment is preferred.
- Familiarity with ITIL/OSS practices and SLOs/SLAs is preferred.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure is preferred.
- Ability to work independently, take ownership, and drive projects from discovery through resolution.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache CassandraAWSAzureBashDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxMySQLPrometheusPythonSQLTerraform
Categories
Site Reliability
About Backblaze External Website
Backblaze provides cloud storage and backup services for businesses, developers, and individuals, centered on its B2 S3‑compatible object storage and Computer Backup offerings. It also offers B2 Overdrive for high‑throughput AI/GPU data pipelines and B2 Neo for white‑label enterprise storage, sold on usage-based and subscription pricing. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Mateo, the NASDAQ‑listed company (BLZE) serves 500,000+ customers across 175 countries.