Backblaze is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III (DBA) to join our team and own the stability, scalability, and reliability of our production database systems, primarily Vitess (distributed MySQL) and Cassandra, alongside our other production services and infrastructure. This role carries on-call, incident response, and service-ownership expectations consistent with other SRE III roles, with database systems as the area of deepest technical ownership. Because our SRE Database Engineering function is new, you will help establish its operational foundation by designing database architecture and developing runbooks, escalation guidance, procedures, and training materials used by Level 1 and Level 2 SRE Database Engineers during onboarding. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with production database systems, Linux, automation, distributed systems, Kubernetes, observability, and incident response, and will take a proactive approach to reliability and operational excellence.

What You'll Do: - Design, deploy, and own highly available database architecture for Vitess (distributed MySQL) and Cassandra - Establish and document operational procedures, runbooks, and escalation guidance for Level 1 and Level 2 SRE Database Engineers - Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, schema design, and capacity planning - Own database backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery strategies - Perform and validate disaster recovery testing and database recovery procedures - Drive database security, access control, patching, hardening, and c

Backblaze is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III (DBA) to join our team and own the stability, scalability, and reliability of our production database systems, primarily Vitess (distributed MySQL) and Cassandra, alongside our other production services and infrastructure. This role carries on-call, incident response, and service-ownership expectations consistent with other SRE III roles, with database systems as the area of deepest technical ownership. Because our SRE Database Engineering function is new, you will help establish its operational foundation by designing database architecture and developing runbooks, escalation guidance, procedures, and training materials used by Level 1 and Level 2 SRE Database Engineers during onboarding. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with production database systems, Linux, automation, distributed systems, Kubernetes, observability, and incident response, and will take a proactive approach to reliability and operational excellence.

What You'll Do: - Design, deploy, and own highly available database architecture for Vitess (distributed MySQL) and Cassandra - Establish and document operational procedures, runbooks, and escalation guidance for Level 1 and Level 2 SRE Database Engineers - Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, schema design, and capacity planning - Own database backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery strategies - Perform and validate disaster recovery testing and database recovery procedures - Drive database security, access control, patching, hardening, and c