Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases

Vultr provides high-performance cloud infrastructure solutions for enterprises and AI innovators worldwide. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases will own the reliability and operational backbone of database infrastructure, including monitoring, backups, disaster recovery, incident response, replication, access management, and compliance. The role also focuses on SRE automation, observability, runbook development, and reducing operational toil across production database systems.

Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve comprehensive monitoring and alerting for MySQL InnoDB Clusters, and PostgreSQL infrastructure across multiple datacenters
• Establish and execute a quarterly backup verification and disaster recovery testing program across all database systems
• Serve as first-tier on-call responder for database incidents, executing documented runbooks and escalating to senior engineering when architecture-level decisions are required
• Monitor and maintain replication health across databases
• Own database user lifecycle management — provisioning, deprovisioning, access audits, and role-based access control across all database systems
• Execute and track security compliance remediation including pen-test findings, GRC audit requirements, and encryption-at-rest verification
• Manage operational health of the Debezium/Kafka Connect data pipeline in coordination with the Kafka infrastructure team
• Build and maintain Puppet profiles for database infrastructure configuration management and write PHP, Python, or Go automation tooling to reduce operational toil
• Develop and maintain runbooks, operational documentation, and disaster recovery procedures for all database systems
• Partner with the Senior Platform Engineer (Databases) as a peer — reviewing each other's work, sharing on-call, and splitting ownership of database reliability across production systems

Requirements:

• • 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Database Operations roles in production environments at scale
• • Deep operational expertise with MySQL in production — InnoDB Cluster, Group Replication, MySQL Router, and ProxySQL — with strong troubleshooting skills for replication, performance, and reliability issues
• • Production experience with PostgreSQL — replication, high availability, performance tuning, and operational management
• • Strong proficiency with configuration management tools (Puppet preferred) and infrastructure-as-code practices
• • Experience with database backup tools (xtrabackup, pg_dump, mysqldump) and disaster recovery procedures
• • Proficiency in PHP and Python or Go for automation, tooling, and integration with existing codebases
• • Experience with database observability — 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 with experience in on-call rotations, including post-incident review and remediation
• • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering teams as a senior peer
• •We are currently accepting applications from candidates residing in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin.•