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 data

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