Principal Database Reliability Engineer
Qualys, Inc.1 day ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define enterprise data-platform architecture principles and target-state direction anchored in OpenSearch and distributed-systems reliability.
- Guide cross-domain decisions across search, streaming, caching, and relational services, resolving issues involving scalability, resilience, operability, security, cost, data movement, and lifecycle.
- Establish production-readiness, SLI/SLO, backup, recovery, disaster-recovery, capacity, lifecycle, and incident-learning principles.
- Lead technical responses and systemic reviews for consequential multi-platform failures, translating recurring incidents into safeguards and investment roadmaps.
- Define strategy for shared Python automation platforms, operational APIs and CLIs, CI/CD guardrails, validation frameworks, safe remediation, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and partner with senior and executive leadership on multi-year direction, platform investments, modernization, and architecture decisions.
- Mentor Staff and Lead engineers and improve technical leadership, architecture reviews, and cross-organizational decision quality.
Requirements
- 12+ years of relevant database, DBRE, SRE, platform, or distributed-systems engineering experience with Principal, Staff, Lead, or comparable technical leadership responsibility.
- Expert-level OpenSearch and/or Elasticsearch architecture and production operations experience.
- Strong distributed-systems reasoning and production experience in at least two of Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.
- Strong software-engineering and automation capability, preferably with Python-based platform tooling and APIs.
- Experience defining multi-year technical direction, resolving cross-domain architecture problems, and influencing senior engineering and executive stakeholders.
- Deep understanding of reliability, capacity, observability, lifecycle management, disaster recovery, security, and cost tradeoffs.
- Excellent written communication, technical judgment, mentorship, and organizational influence.
- Preferred qualifications include breadth across distributed and relational databases, Kubernetes stateful platforms, cloud-managed data services, hybrid architectures, Infrastructure as Code, ClickHouse, Pinot, vector databases, NewSQL, stream processing, vendor or open-source influence, and major modernization programs.
Benefits
- Work during U.S. Eastern Time business hours.
- Participate in on-call support as required.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
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).