Staff Database Reliability Engineer
Qualys, Inc.1 day ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and improve large-scale OpenSearch and Elasticsearch topology, shard and index strategies, lifecycle management, workload distribution, recovery, and resilience patterns.
- Solve complex indexing, search, cluster-state, JVM/GC, storage, segment, mapping, allocation, and cross-cluster reliability problems.
- Guide Kafka and Redis topology, partitioning, replication, capacity, failover, persistence, eviction, re-sharding, and client-reliability practices.
- Architect reusable Python automation and remediation frameworks for provisioning, validation, maintenance, scaling, and incident prevention.
- Define observability, SLIs/SLOs, capacity models, lifecycle forecasts, risk thresholds, and repeatable infrastructure and operator patterns.
- Lead architecture, production-readiness, benchmarking, failure-testing, and technical investigations across multiple engineering groups.
- Mentor engineers, improve design-review and incident-analysis rigor, and drive systemic corrective actions and domain-level technical standards.
Requirements
- 8+ years of DBRE, SRE, database, or distributed data-platform engineering experience with Staff, Lead, or comparable technical-leadership scope.
- Deep hands-on mastery of OpenSearch and/or Elasticsearch internals, operations, performance, lifecycle management, recovery, and architecture.
- Strong production experience with Kafka and/or Redis and the ability to reason across distributed data-platform failure modes.
- Strong systems expertise across JVM, Linux, CPU, memory, storage I/O, networking, and capacity behavior.
- Strong Python software-engineering skills for reusable production automation and tooling.
- Demonstrated success solving ambiguous cross-team technical problems and influencing architecture through evidence and judgment.
- Strong incident leadership, written communication, mentoring, and design-review skills.
- Preferred experience includes both Kafka and Redis at meaningful production scale, Kubernetes operators, Terraform, Ansible, GitOps, and cloud-managed data services.
- Preferred experience includes evaluating ClickHouse, Pinot, vector databases, or stream-processing technologies, as well as chaos testing, production-readiness reviews, and cost-aware capacity engineering.
Benefits
- Work during U.S. Eastern Time business hours.
- Participate in on-call support as required.
- Senior individual-contributor technical leadership role with broad cross-team influence and hands-on technical ownership.
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About Qualys, Inc.
Qualys builds a cloud-based security and compliance platform used by enterprises to automate vulnerability management, IT asset visibility, web application scanning, and policy/PCI compliance across on‑prem and cloud environments. Delivered as subscription SaaS, its Enterprise TruRisk Platform uses a single agent to provide continuous security telemetry for endpoints, servers, containers, and clouds. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Qualys is a public company trading on NASDAQ (QLYS).