Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and strategy for YugabyteDB’s Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS).
• Lead, Design, develop, test, debug, troubleshoot, and maintain components of the DBaaS cloud infrastructure.
• Manage operational priorities of the DBaaS infrastructure.
• Establish processes for handling and leading response to incidents on databases or infrastructure.
• Automate and manage regular maintenance operations such as upgrades etc.
• Design and build DBaaS processes for encryption, security key/password management, storage management, etc.
• Utilize SRE golden signals to analyze and optimize the DBaaS system's performance and reliability strategies.

Requirements

• Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure frameworks.
• 15+ years of experience as a SRE and 5+ years of technical leadership experience.
• Experience in building and managing large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience building and operating data systems for production applications, including fault tolerant designs, software lifecycles, and automation of critical operations.
• Strong track record of Incident Response and Management in a managed service which is mission critical for its customers.
• Experience with: Relational Database systems (PostgresQL preferred), Public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure), Containerization tooling, theory and design (Docker, Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred), Configuration Management Tooling (Ansible preferred), Automation Scripting (Python and Bash preferred), Monitoring systems (Prometheus preferred), Version control systems (git preferred), CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions preferred).
• Solid understanding of Linux systems operations and troubleshooting.
• Willingness and ability to learn new languages and concepts.