About Cover Genius

Valued at $1.9B following a recent $100M capital raise led by Vista Credit Partners, Cover Genius is the premier global infrastructure platform for embedded protection. Operating across 60+ countries and all 50 US states, our B2B2C technology seamlessly connects over 200 partner platforms - including industry giants like Uber, Booking.com, Klarna, and eBay- with 50+ global insurance carriers to protect 70+ million customers at the point of sale.

Coming off a stellar year with 50% YoY revenue growth, over $3B in cumulative gross sales, and 240 million policies issued, we are accelerating into our next phase of scale. As part of our team, you’ll help drive our AI-first roadmap- developing hyper-personalization engines, agentic distribution, and automated claims infrastructure- while building the scalable technology powering the fast-growing $70B embedded protection market.

Our people are:  Accountable, customer-obsessed, collaborative, driven

Our people are not:  Passive, defensive, siloes-driven, hesitant

About 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 which 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

• Security

Along with SREs, DBREs are responsible for writing and maintaining datastore related technical documentation such as tutorials, guides, runbooks and blameless post-mortems.

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:

• At least 5 years experience running major database technologies in production, especially PostgreSQL and MySQL. Experienced running these technologies in cloud environments ideally AWS RDS.

• Understanding of SRE Principles and best practices

• 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?

At Cover Genius, we create magic by turning the archaic into the extraordinary. We take one of the world’s oldest and most complex industries and reinvent it with world-class technology. Cover Genius doesn’t just disrupt legacy insurance; we make the impossible feel effortless.Our operating principles guide our mission: 

• Make today matter: We deliver with urgency and excellence. We act decisively, move with intention, and hold a high bar.

• Act with accountability: We own our commitments  and take pride in delivering results that move us forward.

• Grow together: We are a collective of curious minds. We learn from wins and setbacks, share knowledge generously, and elevate each other every day.

• Inspire Each Other: We push each other to think bigger and pull together to go further.

• Champion Our Customers: We lead with empathy and center the customer, turning complex disruptions into seamless moments of trust.

• Don't just take our word for it- hear about our culture straight from our people here: story time

Ready to make an impact? If you’re looking for a place where you’ll be challenged, trusted, and empowered, we’d love to meet you.

The Legal & Privacy Stuff

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.

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*This position offers a base salary range of C$135,000 to C$175,000 annually.