Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB , the AI-ready, multi-modal, distributed PostgreSQL database for cloud-native apps. Trusted by industry leaders including Shopify, Paramount+, GM, Kroger, Fiserv, and NPCI, YugabyteDB has been deployed in over 100 countries and powers more than 5 million clusters worldwide. Together, our hard-working team of experts and our industry-leading technology are uniquely positioned to meet the demands of modern workloads: geo-distributed, ultra-resilient, and built to scale without limits. Our Yugabeings (distributed, like our database) span 12+ countries and multiple time zones, sharing expertise from diverse backgrounds and industries. YugabyteDB Aeon Staff Site Reliability Engineer At YugabyteDB, we are on a mission to build an open source, high-performance, distributed, and fault tolerant PostgresQL compatible database for powering global, internet-scale applications. The YugabyteDB Managed team is building a Database as a Service (DBaaS) to run in major cloud providers, and be available globally. 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. You will design and build processes that will spin up systems and the infrastructure that manages the databases using secure, reliable, scalable and highly observable methodologies. You will be using, operating, and configuring Kubernetes environments (GKE, EKS, AKS), Java frameworks, Shell scripts, Python scripts, Terraform templates and many other cloud technologies. You will participate in the on-call rotation for 12 hours a day over 7 days, every 4-5 weeks and manage incidents on the DBaaS infrastructure coordinating support for our customers. You will learn how to diagnose problems with our database and infrastructure technology and help deliver reliable service to our customers. We are looking for a strong Staff SRE who exemplifies collaboration, teamwork, empathy and likes to lead by example. We enjoy working with people who are driven and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, and who have a strong desire to build an internet-scale, extensible control plane with strong emphasis on simplicity and user experience. Responsibilities Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and strategy for YugabyteDB’s Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). Lead, Design, develop, test, debug, troubleshoot, and maintain components of the DBaaS cloud infrastructure Manage operational priorities of the DBaaS infrastructure Establish processes for handling and leading response to incidents on databases or 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 Requirements Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure frameworks 15+ years of experience as a SRE and 5+ years of technical leadership experience 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 Strong track record of Incident Response and Management in a managed service which is mission critical for its customers Experience with: Relational Database systems (PostgresQL preferred) Public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure) Containerization tooling, theory and design (Docker, Kubernetes) 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) Solid understanding of Linux systems operations and t