Database Reliability Engineer

Who we are:

At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do. We connect pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.

Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we’re a values driven, fast-growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet. We’re investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community.

We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. At Rover we’re committed to creating an accessible, inclusive, and welcoming community, which starts with our employees.

Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us.

Meet the Site Reliability and Production Support Team

The SRE and Support team is responsible for the Rover platform’s overall performance, scalability, and reliability. We use observability tools, investigative skills, and data to help our engineering teams deliver a stable, reliable, and robust experience for our owners and sitters. We are part of the Platform Engineering division. As such, we work broadly across the company, serving many partners and requiring exceptional partner communication and relationship building. 

What we are looking for

We are looking for a Database Engineer or a Database Reliability Engineer to join our team in Barcelona. You will be responsible for ensuring the stability and performance of our PostgreSQL and MySQL environments while building self-service automation tools. You will work closely with our lead Database engineer to manage Rover's tables and end-to-end data flows. You will partner with developers across Rover to review migrations and analyze and optimize database performance. You will work within the SRE team to build your experience in Python and Django for automation and model tuning.

Please note that this role is part of a cross-regional team and may require some flexibility in working hours to ensure good alignment with the rest of the team. We follow a hybrid model (Mondays & Thursdays in our office in Poblenou, Barcelona).

Key Responsibilities

Manage core database operations, including user access, instance scaling, and performance tuning

Lead major and minor database upgrades
Design and test backup strategies to ensure we can restore data quickly with almost no downtime

Collaborate with developers on schema migrations and query tuning

Use Datadog/Cloudwatch to monitor system health and set up alerting

Manage compliance requirements
Participate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for critical systems

Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root cause analysis and resolution

Develop database standards improve site stability and reduce the blast radius of incidents

Build and maintain self-service tools, such as our Automated Data Model Change approval tooling

Design Terraform for management of RDS infrastructure and deployment through Atlantis

Develop automation scripts using Python to assist in Django migration issues and model tuning

Your Qualifications and Skills

You have 3-5 years of experience as a Database Administrator

You have experience managing databases in a cloud native environment (preferably AWS RDS)

You have 4+ years of hands-on experience managing production environments with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL

You have a strong focus on scripting and automation and have proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (eg: Python)

You are proficient with infrastructure as code (eg: Terraform or CDK)

Familiarity with monitoring tools like Datadog/Cloudwatch or ELK stack

Bonus: Having the skill to use AI tools to assist with coding or monitoring is a great advantage

Bonus: Familiarity with database integration with an ORM, preferably Django

Our Style

We are proud to be professional software developers building high quality, scalable and supportable solutions

We are curious and passionate about learning, providing the right environment and resources for professional growth

We are committed to building, fostering and maintaining a culture of inclusivity and diversity both on our teams and in our products

We embrace progressive engineering practices including automated testing and a continuous deployment pipeline

We are serious about the quality of our production operation, and have thorough system, application and user interaction monitoring and anomaly detection

We are passionate about data-driven decision-making

We are friendly, supportive and respectful, and we pay attention to the impact and quality of our work as well as keeping work/life balance

And, dogs in the office. Bring yours, too!

Benefits of Working at Rover.com:

Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout

Pension plan

Private medical insurance

25 days PTO

Meal allowance and flexible compensation plan (transport and nursery)

Gym membership

€450 to cover the costs associated with the adoption of a pet

Annual €150 wellness reimbursement

Flexible work hours, sometimes you'll need to be in at certain times, but on the whole, we're pretty flexible when it comes to managing workload and time

Grab snacks, fresh fruit, in our kitchen to keep yourself going

Regular team activities, events, game nights, and more

Dog-friendly office

Compensation:

In the greater Barcelona area the first-year salary range is €62,722 - €76,027. Additionally, Rover offers a long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout and benefits to full-time employees.

The cash compensation offered for this role will be dependent on the candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and abilities as demonstrated in the interview and hiring process.

Rover is an equal-opportunity employer committed to promoting a diverse, inclusive, and inventive environment with the best employees. We’re driven by seeing our people succeed and grow, and we work to ensure everyone contributes to their fullest potential. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.