Site Reliability Engineer III (DBA)

Location: Remote - US

Salary: $125,000–$150,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides open cloud object storage for more than 500,000 customers across 175+ countries and manages over three billion gigabytes of data.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, and own highly available Vitess distributed MySQL and Cassandra database architectures.
• Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing, schema design, capacity planning, replication, and resharding.
• Own backup, recovery, replication, disaster recovery, security, access control, patching, and hardening practices.
• Monitor production services using SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, logging, alerting, Prometheus, Grafana, Catchpoint, and ELK.
• Develop automation and infrastructure tooling with Python, Bash, Go, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Lead incident response, production readiness reviews, root cause analysis, training, documentation, and reliability projects.

Requirements

• 6–8 years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure operations, database engineering, or similar roles.
• Deep hands-on experience with MySQL, distributed or sharded databases, SQL performance analysis, and high-availability architecture.
• Experience administering NoSQL databases such as Cassandra; production experience with Vitess is strongly preferred.
• Strong Linux administration, security operations, incident response, monitoring, alerting, SLI/SLO, and error-budget experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Vault, Nomad, and at least one of Python, Bash, or Go.
• Experience creating runbooks and operational procedures and mentoring or onboarding engineers; a bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience is required.

Nice to have

• Experience in SaaS, cloud services, service provider, or large-scale distributed systems environments.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, ITIL/OSS practices, and SLA/SLO management.

Culture & Benefits

• Healthcare coverage for families, including dental and vision.
• 401(k), RSU grants for full-time employees, and an ESPP program.
• Flexible vacation policy, maternity and paternity leave, fertility support, and childcare benefits.
• MacBook Pro, workstation stipend, commuter benefits, and learning and development support.
• Work-life balance-focused culture and equal-opportunity employment practices.