Site Reliability Engineer lII (DBA) - LATAM
Maintain and optimize Backblaze’s distributed MySQL (Vitess) and Cassandra databases, automate operations, and ensure high availability and performance for cloud storage services.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Remote - Colombia ; Remote - Costa Rica ; Remote - Mexico
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 2–4 years of experience in site reliability, systems engineering, or operations centered around database systems
- Solid Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, or Go)
- Understanding of containers (Kubernetes, Docker) and microservices concepts
- Hands-on experience with MySQL performance tuning, replication, and disaster recovery
- Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL database management
- Experience with service reliability concepts (monitoring, alerting, incident response, RCA)
Nice to have
- Direct experience with Vitess or other distributed/sharded MySQL systems
- Familiarity with ITIL/OSS practices and SLO/SLA’s
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Full description
About Backblaze
Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands.
Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $136M ARR and is the leading specialized storage cloud, managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals.
But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We’re seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III (DBA) in LATAM to join our team!
About the Role
We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III with a Database Administration focus to help ensure the stability, scalability, and reliability of our production database systems, primarily Vitess (distributed MySQL) and Cassandra, alongside the rest of our production services and infrastructure.
This database specialization is layered on top of the full SRE III scope on the team. You will carry the same on-call, incident response, and service ownership expectations as other SRE IIIs, with database systems serving as your area of deepest technical ownership.
Because our SRE Database Engineering function is new, this role will also help establish its operational foundation by designing database architecture and developing the runbooks, escalation guidance, procedures, and training materials that our Level 1 and Level 2 SRE Database Engineers will use as they onboard.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience with production database systems, Linux, automation, distributed systems, Kubernetes, observability, and incident response, with a proactive approach to reliability and operational excellence.
What You'll Do:
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Database Architecture & Administration:
- Design, deploy, and own highly available database architecture for Vitess (distributed MySQL) and Cassandra.
- Establish and document operational procedures, runbooks, and escalation guidance for Level 1 and Level 2 SRE Database Engineers.
- Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, schema design, and capacity planning.
- Own database backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery strategies.