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Our responsibilities include maintaining Rover’s datastores, specifically AWS RDS (MySQL and PostgreSQL), while also supporting shared Django code and observability tools like Sentry, Datadog, and Splunk. Through these efforts, we empower our engineering teams to deliver a robust, stable, and reliable experience for both owners and sitters. The Backend Platform team operates as part of the broader Platform Engineering division.\nWhat We Are Looking for:\nRover.com is looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join our team in Barcelona, with a core focus on datastores. In this role, you will collaborate closely with our lead Database Engineer to manage Rover's databases, oversee database operations, and execute critical upgrades. Your responsibilities will include ensuring the performance and stability of our PostgreSQL and MySQL environments while building self-service automation tools. 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For this reason, candidates must be based in Barcelona or willing to relocate.\nSome of Our Key Investments:\nManage core database operations, including user access, instance scaling, and performance tuning\nDesign and test backup strategies to ensure we can restore data quickly with almost no downtime\nLead major and minor database upgrades\nManage compliance requirements\nIdentify and lead initiatives to improve stability, scalability and performance of Rover’s web app\nCollaborate with developers on schema migrations and query tuning\nUse Datadog/Cloudwatch to monitor system health and set up alerting\nParticipate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for critical systems\nTroubleshoot complex production issues and perform root cause analysis and resolution\nBuild and maintain self-service tools, such as our Automated Data Model Change approval tooling.\nDesign Terraform for management of RDS infrastructure and deployment\nDevelop automation scripts using Python to assist in Django migration issues and model tuning\nYour Qualifications and Skillset:\nComputer Science or equivalent background\n3+ years as a Fullstack or Backend Engineer (preferably in Django/Python)\nSolid knowledge and understanding of databases, schema design and database fundamentals (MySQL/PostgreSQL/AWS RDS)\nExperience using and managing AWS products, with a focus on operating, maintaining, and diagnosing issues within production environments\nProficiency with infrastructure as code (eg: Terraform or CDK)\nFamiliarity with monitoring tools like Datadog/Cloudwatch or ELK stack\nOur Style:\nWe are proud to be professional software developers building high quality, scalable and supportable solutions.\nWe are curious and passionate about learning, providing the right environment and resources for professional growth.\nWe are committed to building, fostering and maintaining a culture of inclusivity and diversity both on our teams and in our products.\nWe embrace progressive engineering practices including automated testing and a continuous deployment pipeline.\nWe are serious about the quality of our production operation, and have thorough system, application and user interaction monitoring and anomaly detection.\nWe are passionate about data-driven decision-making.\nWe are friendly, supportive and respectful, and we pay attention to the impact and quality of our work as well as keeping work/life balance.\nAnd, dogs in the office. 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