Senior Site Reliability Engineer SRE - Database Infrastructure jobs in Bangalore at Twitter

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Database Infrastructure

Bengaluru

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

You will use your expertise to tune and push our databases beyond their normal limit
You will work closely with engineering teams to design, build, and maintain systems and help them decide on database to use, schema design and query tuning
You will troubleshoot issues across the entire stack: hardware, software, application and network
You will mentor other SREs and DBE’s on standard methodology for everything from monitoring to troubleshooting complex code and database issues.
You will identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for the company; scope and create automation for deployment, management and visibility of our services.
You will take part in 24x7 on-call rotation and 8x5 customer support rotation
Represent the SRE organization in design reviews and operational readiness exercises for new and existing services.
Participate in on-call rotation and periodic conference calls with other specialists from other time zones including but not limited to our headquarters in San Francisco, CA USA.

Who You Are:

You have solid experience with MySQL databases on-prem or in the cloud.
You have a solid understanding of systems and application design, including the operational trade-offs of various designs.
You have practical, solid knowledge of shell scripting and at least one higher-level language (Python or Go)
You have an expert understanding of Linux systems, services, optimization, storage subsystems, and file systems
You have a minimum 5 years experience handling services in a large scale environment
You work well with and be able to influence a myriad of personalities at all levels.
You are able to prioritize tasks and work independently.
You are adaptable and able to focus on the simplest, most efficient & reliable solutions.
You have a track record of successful practical problem solving, excellent written and social communication, and documentation skills.
B.S. in computer science or similar field.

Desired

Ability to lead technical teams through design and implementation across an organization.
Experience with open source project like Vitess, Orchestrator, Percona, Airflow and other database tools.

Focusing on growth while maintaining an open platform demands a skilled executive team that embraces a challenge. It also requires a board of directors that promotes our mission as well as protects our financial goals. At Twitter, we are fortunate to have both.