Kochava - Senior Site Reliability/Database Reliability Engineer

What the job involves :

You will be joining a fast-growing team of motivated and talented engineers responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Kochavas core infrastructure and database platforms.

As part of the Site Reliability Engineering team, you will design, build, manage, and optimize systems that support mission-critical production services across cloud and on-prem environments. In addition to core SRE responsibilities, this role requires strong database administration expertise and the ability to provide operational coverage for critical database infrastructure.

Working closely with platform, development and infrastructure teams, you will contribute to improving system availability, performance and operational efficiency by enhancing existing platforms and enabling new capabilities.

You will play a key role in managing shared infrastructure that supports databases, message queues, monitoring systems, networking and security layers across hybrid environments. This is a hands-on role within a high-impact engineering team that values ownership, reliability and continuous improvement.

Who you are :

Required Skills :

- 8+ years of experience working as an SRE, DevOps or Platform Engineer in large-scale production environments

- Strong hands-on experience managing containerized workloads in Kubernetes.

- Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.

- Deep understanding of Linux systems, from OS-level operations to performance troubleshooting.

- Experience supporting production environments across cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.

- Strong troubleshooting capability across infrastructure, application and networking layers.

- Experience working in 24x7 production environments.

- Strong hands-on database administration experience with MySQL in large-scale production environments, including performance tuning, replication, backup and recovery, capacity planning, and troubleshooting.

- Experience supporting and maintaining highly available database infrastructure, with the ability to provide DBA coverage and operational ownership when required.

- Working knowledge of complementary data platforms such as Redis and Elasticsearch from an operational standpoint.

- Experience implementing observability, monitoring and reliability best practices.

- Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and production deployment pipelines.

- Experience managing database reliability, availability, and performance in mission-critical production environments.

- Strong understanding of database monitoring, query optimization, incident response, and disaster recovery best practices.

Key Responsibilities :

- Streamline and enhance the day-to-day operational workflows of critical applications and services in a 24x7x365 environment located in Google Compute Platform, AWS, and physical data centers.

- Build tools to enhance performance, scalability and observability of resources shared between multiple projects in production.

- Work with cross-functional teams to define and maintain SLOs, SLIs and SLAs.

- Evangelize best practices related to system performance, reliability and availability.

- Continuously improve observability to ensure uptime and resilience of applications and infrastructure.

- Troubleshoot issues across the entire stack - infrastructure, application, network and hardware layers.

- Provide on-call support for shared services and production infrastructure.

- Manage, maintain, and optimize production database environments, ensuring high availability, performance, scalability, and reliability.

- Perform database administration activities including replication management, backup and recovery validation, capacity planning, performance tuning, and incident troubleshooting.

- Partner with engineering teams to improve database architecture, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence.

- Act as a backup resource for DBA responsibilities and participate in database-related on-call and incident response Skills :

- Exposure to distributed systems such as Kafka, Memcached or InfluxDB or similar large-scale data platforms.

- Experience managing hybrid infrastructure across cloud and physical data centers.

- Programming exposure in Go, Python or Java.

- Experience supporting high-availability and failover-ready environments.

- Experience operating large-scale data platforms and stateful workloads within Kubernetes environments.

Minimum Qualifications :

- You have spend at least 8+ years as an SRE, DevOps engineer Platform Engineer, DBA/SRE, or equivalent infrastructure-focused role.

- Strong hands-on experience administering production MySQL environments, including replication, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and high-availability configurations.

- In-depth knowledge of containerization and managing complex workloads in Kubernetes.

- Proven track record of designing, building, optimizing, and maintaining infrastructure at scale.

- Ability to work effectively as part of a distributed team.

Soft Skills :

- You enjoy solving reliability and performance challenges across infrastructure and database platforms.

- You take ownership of infrastructure stability, database health, and service availability.

- You can work independently in production-critical environments and make sound operational decisions during incidents.

- You collaborate effectively with distributed engineering, platform, and development teams.

- You are comfortable operating in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities.

- You approach operational excellence with a strong focus on automation, observability, and continuous improvement.

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