# Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases at Vultr

- Company: Vultr
- Company website: https://www.vultr.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $125K to $135K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-25
- Apply by: 2026-11-09
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vultr/fd485b8b-fe77-4215-8b6e-4229c76bbc71
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vultr-senior-site-reliability-engineer-databases/

## About the role

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

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Database Operations roles in production environments at scale
- Deep operational expertise with MySQL in production — InnoDB Cluster, Group Replication, MySQL Router, and ProxySQL — with strong troubleshooting skills for replication, performance, and reliability issues
- Production experience with PostgreSQL — replication, high availability, performance tuning, and operational management
- Strong proficiency with configuration management tools (Puppet preferred) and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Experience with database backup tools (xtrabackup, pg_dump, mysqldump) and disaster recovery procedures
- Proficiency in PHP and Python or Go for automation, tooling, and integration with existing codebases

Tags: Engineering