Senior Site Reliability Engineer
MariaDB is making a big impact on the world. Whether you’re checking your bank account, buying a coffee, shopping online, making a phone call, listening to music, taking out a loan or ordering takeout – MariaDB is the backbone of applications used everyday. Companies small and large, including 75% of the Fortune 500, run MariaDB, touching the lives of billions of people. With massive reach through Linux distributions, enterprise deployments and public clouds, MariaDB is uniquely positioned as the leading database for modern application development.
The Opportunity
MariaDB is building a web-based management tool to help our customers easily configure and manage enterprise MariaDB configurations. This role will join an existing team to help build and accelerate the delivery of this product. This is a high-impact role where you will have the opportunity to work on hundreds of clusters in a multi-cloud environment.
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and evolve large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure supporting our global SaaS platform.
Lead reliability and scalability initiatives that span multiple teams and services, driving automation and resilience through infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices.
Proactively identify and remediate systemic reliability issues, ensuring high service availability and performance across multi-cloud environments.
Collaborate with software and platform teams to integrate reliability principles, SLOs, and observability standards into every stage of the development lifecycle.
Act as a key technical leader during major incidents—coordinating response efforts, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing long-term corrective actions.
Contribute to continuous improvement by defining infrastructure patterns, refining CI/CD workflows, and mentoring other engineers in automation and reliability best practices.
Qualifications
At least 7 years of hands-on experience as an SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineer in production cloud environments.
Strong expertise with Kubernetes operations and ecosystem tooling in production-scale clusters.
Proven experience designing and maintaining multi-cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Advanced proficiency with Terraform and Terragrunt, capable of designing modular, reusable, and secure IaC components.
Solid understanding of GitOps principles and deployment automation using ArgoCD or similar tools.
Deep experience with Linux systems administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go preferred).
Strong understanding of observability concepts and experience working with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Thanos.
Experience participating in or leading on-call rotations, handling incident response, and conducting post-incident reviews.
Bonus Experience and Skills
Hands-on experience with large-scale multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters or hybrid cloud setups.
Experience building or operating self-healing and auto-scaling systems.
Certification in one or more major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, or GCP) or Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD).
Contributions to open-source projects, reliability frameworks, or IaC tooling.
Experience mentoring teams and promoting engineering excellence across an organization.
Location
Dominican Republic (Remote)
What’s in it for you?
Impact the world of technology by pushing the boundaries of technology and business models, working at MariaDB. Be part of a game-changing organization that encourages outside-the-box thinking, values empowerment, and is truly shaping the future of the software industry.
This is a permanent salaried full-time employee role (Not a contract or freelance position).
You’ll be collaborating with high-caliber colleagues around the world, offering unparalleled learning and growth opportunities. We provide a very competitive compensation package, 25 days paid annual leave (plus holidays), a massive degree of flexibility and freedom, and more.
Salaries for candidates outside the U.S. will vary based on local compensation structures.
In addition, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than the job description as posted. Salary is one component of MariaDB’s total rewards package, which (subject to eligibility requirements) may include health insurance, life, and disability insurance, funds toward professional development resources, paid holidays, and parental leave, just to name a few!
How to Apply
If you are interested in this position, please submit your application along with your CV/Resume through our ATS Greenhouse on our MariaDB Careers site.
At MariaDB we celebrate the diverse experiences and perspectives of our employees because this drives innovation and success. MariaDB is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone.
MariaDB does not sponsor work visas or relocation.
MariaDB is committed to providing accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
MariaDB will not accept agency resumes without a prior contractual agreement with HR. Please do not forward resumes to any recruiting alias or employee directly. MariaDB is not responsible for paying any fees associated with any unsolicited submitted CV/Resumes.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
MariaDB is making a big impact on the world. Whether you’re checking your bank account, buying a coffee, shopping online, making a phone call, listening to music, taking out a loan or ordering takeout – MariaDB is the backbone of applications used everyday. Companies small and large, including 75% of the Fortune 500, run MariaDB, touching the lives of billions of people. With massive reach through Linux distributions, enterprise deployments and public clouds, MariaDB is uniquely positioned as the leading database for modern application development.
The Opportunity
MariaDB is building a web-based management tool to help our customers easily configure and manage enterprise MariaDB configurations. This role will join an existing team to help build and accelerate the delivery of this product. This is a high-impact role where you will have the opportunity to work on hundreds of clusters in a multi-cloud environment.
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and evolve large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure supporting our global SaaS platform.
Lead reliability and scalability initiatives that span multiple teams and services, driving automation and resilience through infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices.
Proactively identify and remediate systemic reliability issues, ensuring high service availability and performance across multi-cloud environments.
Collaborate with software and platform teams to integrate reliability principles, SLOs, and observability standards into every stage of the development lifecycle.
Act as a key technical leader during major incidents—coordinating response efforts, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing long-term corrective actions.
Contribute to continuous improvement by defining infrastructure patterns, refining CI/CD workflows, and mentoring other engineers in automation and reliability best practices.
Qualifications
At least 7 years of hands-on experience as an SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineer in production cloud environments.
Strong expertise with Kubernetes operations and ecosystem tooling in production-scale clusters.
Proven experience designing and maintaining multi-cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Advanced proficiency with Terraform and Terragrunt, capable of designing modular, reusable, and secure IaC components.
Solid understanding of GitOps principles and deployment automation using ArgoCD or similar tools.
Deep experience with Linux systems administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go preferred).
Strong understanding of observability concepts and experience working with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Thanos.
Experience participating in or leading on-call rotations, handling incident response, and conducting post-incident reviews.
Bonus Experience and Skills
Hands-on experience with large-scale multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters or hybrid cloud setups.
Experience building or operating self-healing and auto-scaling systems.
Certification in one or more major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, or GCP) or Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD).
Contributions to open-source projects, reliability frameworks, or IaC tooling.
Experience mentoring teams and promoting engineering excellence across an organization.
Location
Dominican Republic (Remote)
What’s in it for you?
Impact the world of technology by pushing the boundaries of technology and business models, working at MariaDB. Be part of a game-changing organization that encourages outside-the-box thinking, values empowerment, and is truly shaping the future of the software industry.
This is a permanent salaried full-time employee role (Not a contract or freelance position).
You’ll be collaborating with high-caliber colleagues around the world, offering unparalleled learning and growth opportunities. We provide a very competitive compensation package, 25 days paid annual leave (plus holidays), a massive degree of flexibility and freedom, and more.
Salaries for candidates outside the U.S. will vary based on local compensation structures.
In addition, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than the job description as posted. Salary is one component of MariaDB’s total rewards package, which (subject to eligibility requirements) may include health insurance, life, and disability insurance, funds toward professional development resources, paid holidays, and parental leave, just to name a few!
How to Apply
If you are interested in this position, please submit your application along with your CV/Resume through our ATS Greenhouse on our MariaDB Careers site.
At MariaDB we celebrate the diverse experiences and perspectives of our employees because this drives innovation and success. MariaDB is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone.
MariaDB does not sponsor work visas or relocation.
MariaDB is committed to providing accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
MariaDB will not accept agency resumes without a prior contractual agreement with HR. Please do not forward resumes to any recruiting alias or employee directly. MariaDB is not responsible for paying any fees associated with any unsolicited submitted CV/Resumes.