Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud Database Platform

MariaDB is making a big impact on the world. Whether you’re checking your bank account, buying a coffee, shopping online, making a phone call, listening to music, taking out a loan or ordering takeout – MariaDB is the backbone of applications used every day. Companies small and large, including 75% of the Fortune 500, run MariaDB, touching the lives of billions of people. With massive reach through Linux distributions, enterprise deployments and public clouds, MariaDB is uniquely positioned as the leading database for modern application development.

The Opportunity

MariaDB Cloud is a fully managed database platform running on Kubernetes across AWS and Google Cloud. We are expanding into U.S. government cloud regions, and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer in the United States to help us build, deploy, and operate this new environment.

You won't be starting from a blank page. Our global platform engineering team designs, builds, and validates infrastructure and automation in fully representative staging environments. Your role is to bring that work into our U.S. government cloud environments, own its production reliability, and be the engineering voice on the ground, feeding operational reality back into the platform's design.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure in AWS GovCloud (US) and Google Cloud, using Terraform/Terragrunt and GitOps pipelines developed jointly with our global SRE team.

• Own production reliability for the U.S. government cloud environment: monitoring, alerting, capacity, incident response, and post-incident improvement.

• Run and maintain the platform's supporting services - observability (Prometheus, Grafana), logging, secrets management, messaging, and CI/CD tooling — on top of Kubernetes.

• Participate in the implementation of security hardening and compliance requirements for federal environments (e.g., FedRAMP), working alongside our security and compliance teams.

• Improve automation relentlessly: if a task needs to be done twice, you'll turn it into code.

• Take part in an on-call rotation for the environments you operate.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering experience, including operating production Kubernetes.

• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills (Terraform; Terragrunt a plus) and experience with GitOps-driven deployment workflows.

• Solid Linux, networking, and TLS fundamentals.

• Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar) and log pipelines.

• Scripting or programming proficiency (Go, Python, or Bash).