1 month ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$125k - $135k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own monitoring and alerting for MySQL InnoDB Clusters and PostgreSQL infrastructure across multiple data centers.
- Establish and execute quarterly database backup verification and disaster recovery testing.
- Serve as a first-tier on-call responder for database incidents, following runbooks and escalating architecture-level issues.
- Monitor and maintain database replication health and manage database user provisioning, deprovisioning, access audits, and role-based access control.
- Execute and track security compliance remediation, including penetration-test findings, GRC audit requirements, and encryption-at-rest verification.
- Manage the operational health of Debezium/Kafka Connect data pipelines with the Kafka infrastructure team.
- Build and maintain Puppet profiles and write PHP, Python, or Go automation to reduce operational toil.
- Develop runbooks, operational documentation, and disaster recovery procedures, and partner with the Senior Platform Engineer on shared database reliability ownership.
Requirements
- 7+ years of production experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or database operations at scale.
- Deep production expertise with MySQL, including InnoDB Cluster, Group Replication, MySQL Router, and ProxySQL, plus troubleshooting of replication, performance, and reliability issues.
- Production experience with PostgreSQL replication, high availability, performance tuning, and operational management.
- Strong proficiency with configuration management tools, preferably Puppet, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Experience with xtrabackup, pg_dump, mysqldump, and database disaster recovery procedures.
- Proficiency in PHP and Python or Go for automation, tooling, and integration with existing codebases.
- Experience with Prometheus exporters, Grafana dashboards, alerting frameworks, and SLO/error-budget methodology.
- Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Debezium, or similar change-data-capture pipelines.
- Strong incident-response skills, on-call rotation experience, post-incident review, and remediation experience.
- Excellent communication and cross-engineering collaboration skills as a senior peer.
Benefits
- 100% company-paid employee medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums.
- 401(k) plan matching 100% up to 4% with immediate vesting.
- $2,500 annual professional development reimbursement.
- 11 holidays, paid time off accrual, and rollover plan.
- Increased PTO at three- and ten-year anniversaries, a one-month paid sabbatical every five years, and an annual anniversary bonus.
- $500 remote office setup stipend in the first year and $400 in each following year.
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month and gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month.
- Company-paid Wellable subscription.
- Applications are accepted from candidates residing in the listed U.S. states.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Vultr
Vultr builds and operates a self-service cloud infrastructure platform offering Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, object storage, and managed Kubernetes for developers, startups, and enterprises. It runs in 33 data center locations worldwide and sells on-demand IaaS and GPU capacity, including AI infrastructure. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida, Vultr is privately held and announced a private equity financing in 2024.