Senior Site Reliability Engineer Databases
Vultr is an active independent cloud-infrastructure company providing global compute, GPU, bare-metal, storage, Kubernetes, and serverless AI inference services.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
About Vultr
Vultr provides globally available cloud infrastructure for developers, enterprises, and AI innovators, including Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, Cloud Storage, managed Kubernetes, and serverless inference.
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About the Role
You will operate and improve the reliability of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and related database systems across multiple datacenters. You will own monitoring, backups, disaster-recovery testing, replication health, access management, compliance remediation, and first-tier incident response. You will build automation and configuration-management profiles, maintain runbooks, and coordinate database reliability ownership with a senior platform engineer.
Requirements
- 7+ years of Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Database Operations experience in production environments at scale
- Operational expertise with MySQL, InnoDB Cluster, Group Replication, MySQL Router, and ProxySQL
- Production experience with PostgreSQL replication, high availability, performance tuning, and operations
- Configuration-management and infrastructure-as-code experience
- Experience with database backup tools and disaster-recovery procedures
- PHP and Python or Go proficiency
- Database observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, alerting, SLOs, and error budgets
- Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Debezium, or change-data-capture pipelines
- Incident response and on-call rotation experience
- Communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve monitoring and alerting for MySQL InnoDB Clusters and PostgreSQL infrastructure
- Execute quarterly backup verification and disaster-recovery testing
- Respond to database incidents using documented runbooks and escalate architecture-level decisions
- Monitor and maintain database replication health
- Manage database user provisioning, deprovisioning, access audits, and role-based access control
- Execute and track security-compliance remediation
- Manage operational health of the Debezium and Kafka Connect data pipeline
- Build Puppet profiles and PHP, Python, or Go automation tooling
- Maintain runbooks, operational documentation, and disaster-recovery procedures
- Share database reliability and on-call ownership across production systems
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums
- 401(k) 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 3- and 10-year anniversaries
- One month paid sabbatical every 5 years
- Annual anniversary bonus
- Remote-office setup stipend of $500 in the first year and $400 in subsequent years
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
- Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
- Company-paid Wellable subscription
