Lead Database Reliability Specialist (Remote)

This is a remote position, so you'll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings., GoDaddy is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Database Infrastructure team. This role focuses on designing, developing, and deploying automated solutions for our production database infrastructure including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra systems. You'll architect and build software that ensures the reliability, scalability, and performance of databases supporting both corporate applications and customer hosting services. You'll be developing tools and services for potentially the biggest WordPress fleet in existence, building software that manages infrastructure for over a million databases.What you'll get to do...

• Design and develop automation tools and services in Golang to streamline database operations, improve efficiency, and support application demands across 50+ teams.
• Build and maintain REST APIs and microservices to enhance automation capabilities and enable seamless integration with database infrastructure.
• Develop custom software solutions and internal tooling to meet team and organizational needs for database management at scale.
• Engineer CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation using infrastructure as code practices to improve security posture and operational efficiency.
• Create and maintain automation scripts and applications in Golang and Bash for database operations, upgrades, and configuration management.
• Architect and implement solutions for migrating database infrastructure to modernized virtual machine environments as part of our one-system initiative.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to track system performance and ensure high availability of database clusters.
• Integrate with configuration management systems such as Salt and Puppet to enable scalable infrastructure automation.
• Contribute to on-call rotation (secondary week, primary week, then project work cycle) with emphasis on building solutions that prevent future incidents., We've got your back... We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy's benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

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• 2+ years in Golang with demonstrated experience building production-grade applications and services.
• 2+ years of experience working with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) OR NoSQL databases (Cassandra), including understanding of deployment, configuration, and management at scale.
• Proven experience designing and implementing REST APIs and backend services.
• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems design.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and continuous deployment workflows.
• Experience with Linux/Unix systems and developing software that operates at scale.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Ansible, SaltStack, or Puppet.

You might also have...

• Experience with Python for automation and tooling.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience building and running testing infrastructure and frameworks.
• Exposure to compute platforms such as OpenStack or AWS.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Mimir, Loki, or Nagios-based systems like Icinga2.

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