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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!
