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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

MariaDB frees companies from the costs, constraints, and complexity of proprietary databases, enabling them to reinvest in what matters most – rapidly developing innovative, customer-facing applications.

MariaDB

Employee count: 11-50

Dominican Republic only

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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.

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Full Time

Experience level

Senior

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Dominican Republic +/- 0 hours

About MariaDB

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MariaDB frees companies from the costs, constraints, and complexity of proprietary databases, enabling them to reinvest in what matters most – rapidly developing innovative, customer-facing applications. MariaDB uses pluggable, purpose-built storage engines to support workloads that previously required a variety of specialized databases. With complexity and constraints eliminated, enterprises can now depend on a single complete database for all their needs, whether on commodity hardware or their cloud of choice. Deployed in minutes for transactional or analytical use cases, MariaDB delivers unmatched operational agility without sacrificing key enterprise features including real ACID compliance and full SQL. Trusted by organizations such as Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon, and Walgreens – MariaDB meets the same core requirements as proprietary databases at a fraction of the cost. No wonder it’s the fastest-growing open-source database. Real business relies on MariaDB™.

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Paid parental leave

Paid family leave for all parents to support you and your family.

Employee assistance program (EAP)

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Company size

11-50 employees

Founded in

2014

Chief executive officer

Michael Howard

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