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Salary: USD 150,000 - 205,000 / annual
MariaDB is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to deploy, operate, and own production reliability for MariaDB Cloud's expansion into U.S. government cloud regions (AWS GovCloud and Google Cloud). You will be the founding U.S. engineer for this new environment, working alongside a global platform engineering team that has already designed and validated infrastructure and automation in staging environments.
Your primary responsibilities include:
- Deploy and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure in AWS GovCloud (US) and Google Cloud using Terraform/Terragrunt and GitOps pipelines developed jointly with the global SRE team
- Own production reliability for the U.S. government cloud environment: monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, incident response, and post-incident improvement
- Run and maintain platform supporting services including observability (Prometheus, Grafana), logging, secrets management, messaging, and CI/CD tooling on Kubernetes
- Participate in implementing security hardening and compliance requirements for federal environments (e.g., FedRAMP) alongside security and compliance teams
- Drive automation relentlessly—if a task needs to be done twice, turn it into code
- Participate in on-call rotation for the environments you operate
This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role with the backing of an experienced global team. You'll have direct influence on how a managed database platform meets federal requirements. The infrastructure is built as code and validated before reaching you; your focus is production excellence rather than firefighting.
MariaDB Cloud is a fully managed database platform running on Kubernetes across AWS and Google Cloud. The company serves 75% of the Fortune 500 and billions of end users globally.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years of SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering experience, including operating production Kubernetes
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills (Terraform required; Terragrunt a plus) and experience with GitOps-driven deployment workflows
- Solid Linux, networking, and TLS fundamentals
- Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar) and log pipelines
- Scripting or programming proficiency (Go, Python, or Bash)
- Clear written communication skills—runbooks, incident reports, and change documentation are critical in this environment
- U.S. citizenship and residency in the United States (required for federal government cloud access via AWS GovCloud)
