Site Reliability Engineer III (DBA)
Backblaze External Website1 hour ago
Base Salary
$125k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and own highly available Vitess and Cassandra database architecture.
- Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing, schema design, and capacity planning.
- Own backup, recovery, replication, disaster recovery, security, access control, patching, and hardening strategies.
- Monitor service health and improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, logging, alerting, and observability.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, and corrective actions.
- Develop automation, runbooks, escalation procedures, documentation, and training materials for database operations.
- Operate and troubleshoot production environments using Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and related tools.
- Lead Production Readiness Reviews and support the readiness of new database-backed services.
- Mentor and onboard Level 1 and Level 2 SRE Database Engineers.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Operations, DBA, and Data Infrastructure teams on reliability, migration, capacity, and disaster recovery initiatives.
Requirements
- 6–8 years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure operations, database engineering, or similar roles, including meaningful production database experience.
- Deep hands-on experience with MySQL and distributed or sharded database systems.
- Experience administering and supporting Cassandra or other NoSQL databases.
- Experience designing high-availability database architecture, replication topology, backup strategies, and disaster recovery processes.
- Strong SQL skills covering query performance analysis, indexing, schema design, and troubleshooting.
- Solid Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with security operations including patching, system hardening, access controls, and vulnerability remediation.
- Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Vault, Nomad, or related infrastructure and configuration management technologies.
- Proficiency in at least one of Python, Bash, or Go.
- Experience establishing operational procedures, runbooks, documentation, escalation processes, and mentoring or training engineers.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Vitess production experience, large-scale distributed systems or cloud services experience, AWS/GCP/Azure experience, and ITIL/OSS or SLA/SLO management familiarity are preferred.
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage for family, including dental and vision.
- 401K, RSU grants for full-time employees, ESPP, and competitive compensation.
- Flexible vacation policy, maternity and paternity leave, fertility support, and childcare bonus.
- MacBook Pro for work and a workstation personalization stipend.
- Learning and development program and commuter benefits.
- Healthy work-life balance culture.
- The posting provides a US base salary range of $125,000–$150,000.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache CassandraAWSAzureBashDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxMySQLPrometheusPythonSQLTerraformVault
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.