Senior Site Reliability Engineer, GoDaddy

• 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

Desirable

• 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
• 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