Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve comprehensive monitoring and alerting for MySQL InnoDB Clusters, and PostgreSQL infrastructure across multiple datacenters
• Establish and execute a quarterly backup verification and disaster recovery testing program across all database systems
• Serve as first-tier on-call responder for database incidents, executing documented runbooks and escalating to senior engineering when architecture-level decisions are required
• Monitor and maintain replication health across databases
• Own database user lifecycle management — provisioning, deprovisioning, access audits, and role-based access control across all database systems
• Execute and track security compliance remediation including pen-test findings, GRC audit requirements, and encryption-at-rest verification
• Manage operational health of the Debezium/Kafka Connect data pipeline in coordination with the Kafka infrastructure team
• Build and maintain Puppet profiles for database infrastructure configuration management and write PHP, Python, or Go automation tooling to reduce operational toil
• Develop and maintain runbooks, operational documentation, and disaster recovery procedures for all database systems
• Partner with the Senior Platform Engineer (Databases) as a peer — reviewing each other's work, sharing on-call, and splitting ownership of database reliability across production systems

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