Yugabyte

Yugabyte

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

United States · Staff+

Work authorization required$220k-$250kDetected 15 days ago
PythonJavaBashDistributed SystemsGitPostgreSQLAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleCI/CDGitHub ActionsLinuxPrometheusSite Reliability EngineeringIncident ResponseControlsShopifyLeadershipCollaboration

About the role

  • Our Yugabeings (distributed, like our database) span 12+ countries and multiple time zones, sharing expertise from diverse backgrounds and industries.
  • As a Site Reliability Engineer focused on database availability and reliability you will be using your skills to operate and automate the life cycle of the YugabyteDB DBaaS.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, Design, develop, test, debug, troubleshoot, and maintain components of the DBaaS cloud infrastructure
  • Manage operational priorities of the DBaaS 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
  • Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure frameworks
  • 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
  • Containerization tooling, theory and design (Docker, Kubernetes)

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience as a SRE and 5+ years of technical leadership experience
  • Experience with:
  • Willingness and ability to learn new languages and concepts

Nice to have

  • Relational Database systems (PostgresQL preferred)
  • 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)

Skills

  • Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, the AI-ready, multi-modal, distributed PostgreSQL database for cloud-native apps.
  • YugabyteDB Aeon Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Compensation

  • We feel strongly about equal pay for equal work, and transparency in compensation is one way to help achieve that.

Benefits

  • Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and strategy for YugabyteDB's Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS).

Company info

  • Strong track record of Incident Response and Management in a managed service which is mission critical for its customers

Equal opportunity

  • As an equal opportunity employer, Yugabyte is committed to a diverse workforce.
  • Employment decisions regarding recruitment and selection will be made without discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, genetic information or characteristic, gender identity and expression, veteran status, or other non-job related characteristics or other prohibited grounds specified in applicable federal, state and local laws.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Due to the Proclamation, "Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers", which went into effect on September 21, 2025, at this time we are no longer able to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions filed after September 21, 2025 for new hire
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