Site Reliability Engineer lII (DBA) - LATAM
Backblaze External Website3 days ago
Remote, Costa Rica +2 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and own highly available Vitess distributed MySQL 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.
- Create operational procedures, runbooks, escalation guidance, documentation, onboarding materials, and training plans for Level 1 and Level 2 SRE Database Engineers.
- Support production service reliability through monitoring, alerting, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations, incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
- Develop automation and operational tooling for database administration, monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident-response workflows.
- Operate and troubleshoot Kubernetes and Docker production environments and Vitess deployments.
- Lead Production Readiness Reviews and support the operational readiness of database-backed services.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Operations, DBA, and Data Infrastructure teams on reliability, migrations, capacity planning, and disaster recovery initiatives.
- Mentor and train engineers and serve as an escalation point for complex database and infrastructure incidents.
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 similar NoSQL databases.
- Experience designing high-availability database architectures, replication topologies, 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-focused operations, including patching, system hardening, access controls, and vulnerability remediation.
- Understanding of monitoring, alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Vault, and Nomad.
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Python, Bash, or Go.
- Experience establishing operational procedures, runbooks, documentation, and escalation processes.
- Experience mentoring, training, or onboarding engineers in complex technical environments.
- Experience supporting large-scale, production-grade systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Preferred qualifications include production Vitess experience, large-scale sharded MySQL or Cassandra experience, cloud-platform experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, ITIL/OSS and SLA/SLO familiarity, Production Readiness Review leadership, and technical training-material development.
Benefits
- LATAM-based role.
- Backblaze describes an inclusive, diversity-focused workplace and Equal Opportunity Employer commitment.
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.