Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) - PostgreSQL

Company Overview

Cover Genius is a Series E Insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies, including Booking Holdings, Intuit, Hopper, Skyscanner, Ryanair, and many e‑commerce giants such as Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and Shopee. Our award‑winning XCover platform embeds protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.

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. You will design solutions for large‑scale engineering challenges, such as multi‑regional scaling and data sovereignty requirements, and contribute to the reliability, availability, performance, disaster recovery, automation and security of Cover Genius databases.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist application teams in selecting and optimizing datastore architectures and technologies
• Optimize queries, migrations and perform other datastore performance tuning
• Implement automation and reduce toil for datastore management
• Deploy, upgrade and maintain 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 and runbooks
• Optimize and control costs of the company’s storage infrastructure
• Create and refine SLOs for datastores

Qualifications

What You Will Bring

Why Cover Genius

Benefits & Salary

Diversity & Inclusion

Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We do not tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age or any other legally protected status. All hiring decisions are made by our hiring team and no candidate dispositions are automated.

Location

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

How to Apply

Send your resume and let’s chat! No automated decision‑making; all final hiring decisions are made by our hiring team.

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