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Site Reliability Engineer III (DBA) - LATAM
DevOpsWorkplace — LATAM
Published on 2026-11-12
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About this role
Own the reliability, scalability, and operations of production databases, primarily Vitess (distributed MySQL) and Cassandra, while contributing to broader SRE responsibilities. Help establish the database reliability function by designing architecture and creating operational procedures and training materials.
About the company
Backblaze provides cloud object storage and backup services for individuals and businesses. It serves teams that need affordable, durable storage and simple data protection.
Stack
VitessMySQLCassandraLinuxKubernetesDockerPrometheusGrafana
What you'll do
- Design and operate highly available Vitess and Cassandra database architectures.
- Optimize database performance and own backup, replication, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Create runbooks, escalation guidance, procedures, and training materials for junior database SREs.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
- Develop automation and improve monitoring, alerting, and operational workflows.
- Lead Production Readiness Reviews and support database-backed services entering production.
- Partner with engineering and data infrastructure teams on capacity planning, resharding, migrations, and reliability initiatives.
What we're looking for
- 6–8 years in SRE, systems or infrastructure engineering, database engineering, or similar roles, including production database support.
- Deep hands-on MySQL and distributed or sharded database experience.
- Experience administering NoSQL databases such as Cassandra.
- Experience designing highly available database architecture, replication, backups, and disaster recovery.
- Strong SQL, query optimization, indexing, schema design, and troubleshooting skills.
- Solid Linux administration, Kubernetes, Docker, and scripting skills in Python, Bash, Go, or similar.
- Knowledge of reliability practices including monitoring, alerting, incident response, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Experience with infrastructure and configuration tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Vault, or Nomad; documentation and mentoring experience.
Nice to have
- Production experience with Vitess and large-scale sharded MySQL.
- Experience with distributed NoSQL databases at scale.
- Background in SaaS, cloud services, or large-scale distributed systems; cloud platform experience.
- Experience with Production Readiness Reviews and developing technical training materials.