Senior SRE - Automation Engineer

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. With massive reach through Linux distributions, enterprise deployments and public clouds, MariaDB is uniquely positioned as the leading database for modern application development.
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. 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.
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.
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.
Bonus Experience and Skills
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.
Canada (Remote)
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.
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!
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 does not sponsor work visas or relocation.
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