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Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)Cover Genius • Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, CA
Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

Cover Genius • Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, CA
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

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

  • At least 5 years running major database technologies in production, especially PostgreSQL and MySQL; cloud experience ideally on AWS RDS
  • Understanding of SRE principles and best practices
  • Experience operating NoSQL datastores and cache technologies such as Elasticsearch, Redis, S3, DynamoDB, BigQuery and RabbitMQ
  • Excellent understanding of SQL and SQL database performance optimization
  • Comfortable scripting and developing internal tooling with Bash or a programming language (e.g. Python, Go)
  • Familiar with internals of PostgreSQL
  • Experience with infrastructure and configuration‑as‑code tools, especially Terraform
  • Experience working with Linux
  • Solid theoretical understanding of underlying data‑storage technologies and trade‑offs
  • Good knowledge of AWS and / or GCP platforms and associated best practices
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent practical experience
  • What You Will Bring

  • Strong communication and documentation skills
  • Curious and self‑motivated learner
  • Professional approach and good team member
  • Organizational and time‑management skills
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Positive approach to change
  • Why Cover Genius

  • Flexible work environment – hybrid schedule with remote options and a wellness day a month
  • Employee Stock Options – share in the company’s success
  • Work with like‑minded people passionate about both work and giving back; CG Gives programs enable us to become philanthropists through peer recognition and rewards
  • Social initiatives – initiatives and programs that support communities and people worldwide
  • Benefits & Salary

  • Base salary range : C$135,000 – C$175,000 annually
  • Competitive equity package
  • Health, dental and vision benefits
  • Flexible vacation and paid time off policy
  • 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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