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Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
United States only
From the listing details: Source listing states candidate location: "Remote - United States, Remote"
Employer listed it 5 weeks ago · Added 5 weeks ago
Been open since 5 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
$125,000 to $135,000
Location
United States only
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
Stated by the employer in the job description
What the advert says
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- Working hours
- Not mentioned in the advert
- Where you can work from
- Location eligibility not confirmed
- Contract
- Not mentioned in the advert
- Experience asked for
7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Database Operations roles in production environments at scale
- Pay
Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote - United States, Remote"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in United States
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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Before you apply
Experience: employer states
Written as a nice-to-have
- “Strong proficiency with configuration management tools (Puppet preferred) and infrastructure-as-code practices”
Questions worth asking: Nomaders interpretation
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About the role
Who We Are
Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. With 33 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.
Vultr Cares
100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
$500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
Company paid Wellable subscription
Join Vultr
Vultr is seeking a highly skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases to join our Platform Engineering team. You will be the reliability and operational backbone for Vultr's database infrastructure spanning MySQL InnoDB Clusters, PostgreSQL, and other database technologies. Working alongside our Senior Platform Engineer (Databases), you will own database monitoring, backup verification, disaster recovery testing, on-call incident response, replication health, access management, and compliance remediation. This is a peer-level role where you will apply SRE methodology — error budgets, runbooks, automation-first thinking, and toil reduction — specifically to database systems that power a global cloud platform serving millions of customers. You bring deep operational database expertise to complement our existing schema and DDL strengths, and you are comfortable writing PHP, Python, or Go to automate and instrument everything you build.
Key Responsibilities
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
Serve as first-tier on-call responder for database incidents, executing documented runbooks and escalating to senior engineering when architecture-level decisions are required
Monitor and maintain replication health across databases
Own database user lifecycle management — provisioning, deprovisioning, access audits, and role-based access control across all database systems
Execute and track security compliance remediation including pen-test findings, GRC audit requirements, and encryption-at-rest verification
Manage operational health of the Debezium/Kafka Connect data pipeline in coordination with the Kafka infrastructure team
Build and maintain Puppet profiles for database infrastructure configuration management and write PHP, Python, or Go automation tooling to reduce operational toil
Develop and maintain runbooks, operational documentation, and disaster recovery procedures for all database systems
Requirements
- ·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
Benefits
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How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Vultr, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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