Site Reliability Engineer ll (DBA)

Location: Remote in Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, or Mexico

Company

hirify.global is an open cloud object storage provider managing large-scale data storage for more than 500,000 customers in over 175 countries.

What you will do

• Operate and maintain highly available Vitess distributed MySQL and Cassandra databases using established architectures and runbooks.
• Improve database performance through query tuning, indexing, and schema design.
• Execute backup, recovery, replication, security, and access-control procedures to protect data durability.
• Monitor production services using SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and observability tools, and participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
• Develop operational automation and contribute to monitoring, logging, alerting, CI/CD, configuration management, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Support capacity planning, disaster recovery exercises, vendor troubleshooting, documentation, and post-incident improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2–4 years of experience in site reliability, systems engineering, or database-focused operations.
• Solid Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, with familiarity with monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go, plus SQL and NoSQL database management experience.
• Hands-on MySQL performance tuning, replication, and disaster recovery experience.
• Understanding of containers, Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, and operational best practices.

Nice to have

• Experience with Vitess or other distributed or sharded MySQL systems.
• Experience in SaaS, service provider, or distributed systems environments.
• Familiarity with ITIL/OSS practices, SLOs, SLAs, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within established procedures and runbooks while contributing to continuous reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, operations, vendors, and service providers.
• Support a reliability-minded engineering culture through documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Inclusive workplace focused on diversity, equity, and belonging.