
Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Udemy
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Mexico City • 🇲🇽 Mexico
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💰 MX$1,040,000 - MX$1,300,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSCloudGoJavaKafkaKotlinKubernetesMySQLPythonRedisTerraform
About the role
- Lead improvement projects for datastores and platform teams to align with company long-term objectives
- Maintain infrastructure uptime, monitor performance, and ensure infrastructure scales with growth
- Develop immutable infrastructure patterns and automate infrastructure provisioning via code (Terraform, Python, Ansible)
- Ensure adherence to PCI, ISO27001, and SOC 2 security/compliance requirements and modify CI/CD processes when necessary
- Advocate for and implement positive changes in tools and processes
- Participate in the on-call rotation and follow systematic incident management practices
- Support day-to-day activities, support requests, and project-related tasks
- Contribute to documentation, maintain ticketing queues, provide project support, troubleshoot, and offer after-hours assistance as required
- Provide coaching and mentorship to new hires and maintain close communication with team members
Requirements
- 3-5 years of professional experience working in a Cloud Engineering/SRE/DBRE team with infrastructure responsibilities
- Proficiency with managing MySQL at scale (Horizontal Scaling, sharding, InnoDB optimizations, Query Optimization, HA/DR, Monitoring, Backups Strategy, Security, Automations)
- Strong understanding in running Production Workloads in Kubernetes
- Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Git and Infrastructure as Code
- Strong experience in Kafka cluster management, topic configuration, performance tuning, and ensuring high availability and fault tolerance
- Experience with Message Queues (MQ/SQS) and Caching (Redis, Memcache) or similar products
- Experience in Python
- Knowledge of configuration management tools and monitoring systems (Datadog or similar) for database infrastructure
- Strong troubleshooting skills to diagnose complex database issues
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and security best practices
- Adaptability and comfort working in a fast-paced, hands-on environment
- Nice to have: Golang, Kotlin, Java
- Nice to have: Experience implementing CDC pipelines
- Nice to have: Experience with Vitess Operator running MySQL on Kubernetes
- Nice to have: Experience writing Kubernetes Helm Charts
- Nice to have: Experience with ArgoCD/Argo Workflows or similar
- Nice to have: Knowledge of security standards, vulnerability patching, TLS/SSL
Benefits
- Eligible for equity
- Full access to Udemy courses
- Monthly UDay for professional development
- Budget for personal development
- Region-specific benefits (links to Mexico, US, India, Ireland, Australia, Turkiye pages)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
TerraformPythonAnsibleMySQLKubernetesKafkaAWSGitMessage QueuesCaching
Soft skills
coachingmentorshipcommunicationtroubleshootingadaptability
Certifications
PCIISO27001SOC 2