Database Reliability Engineer

Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year. Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards, including by the Financial Times, who ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commits itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives,” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities. Our People are Bold, Authentic, Purposeful, and Inspired. Our People are not Perfect, Traditional, Complacent, or Cautious. The Role As a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) on our Technology Team, your primary purpose will be to ensure the seamless and secure functioning of the datastores that support our platform. As a DBRE, you will help design solutions for large-scale engineering challenges, such as how to support multi-regional scaling and data sovereignty requirements. To drive success in this role, you will have a strong background in site reliability engineering and database administration, with experience working with various data storage technologies in a public cloud environment. You should possess excellent problem-solving skills, a keen attention to detail, and a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating potential issues. As a specialist, you will primarily work alongside the Site Reliability team, as well as providing expertise to application and data teams on database architecture and performance optimization. DBREs work to improve the following aspects of Cover Genius databases and datastores: reliability, availability, performance, disaster recovery, automation, and security. Key Responsibilities: Assist application teams to select and optimize datastore architectures and technologies. Assist application teams to optimize queries, migrations, and perform other datastore performance tuning. Implement automation and reduce toil for datastore management. Deployment, upgrade, and maintenance of datastores. Troubleshoot database-related production incidents (On Call). Develop, test, and maintain disaster recovery procedures for datastores. Implement monitoring and alerting using key database metrics. Develop and maintain troubleshooting documentation/runbooks. Optimize and control costs of the company’s storage infrastructure. Creating and refining SLOs for datastores. What you will bring: Understanding of SRE Principles and best practices. At least 5 years of experience running major database technologies in production, especially PostgreSQL and MySQL. Experienced running these technologies in cloud environments, ideally AWS RDS. Experience operating other NoSQL datastores and cache technologies, especially Elasticsearch, Redis, S3, DynamoDB, Bigquery, and RabbitMQ. Excellent understanding of SQL and SQL database performance optimization. Comfortable scripting & developing internal tooling with Bash or at least one programming language (e.g., python, go). Familiar with internals of PostgreSQL. Experience working with infrastructure & configuration as code tools, especially Terraform. Experience working with Linux. Solid theoretical understanding of underlying data-storage technologies and tradeoffs. Good knowledge of AWS and/or GCP platforms and associated best practices. Bachelor Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience. What you will have: Strong communication and documentation skills. Curious and self-motivated learner. Professional approach. Good team member. Organizational and time management skills. Excellent attention to detail. Positive approach to change. Why Cover Genius? Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid, and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean? Flexible Work Environment, Employee Stock Options, Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. #J-18808-Ljbffr