Software Engineer II, SRE and Support Team

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Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us. We believe everyone deserves the unconditional love of a pet—and at Rover, our mission is to make it easier to experience that love. Founded in 2011, the Rover app and website connect dog and cat parents with loving pet sitters and dog walkers in neighborhoods across the US, Canada, and Europe.

We empower our community of trusted pet sitters and dog walkers to run their own pet care businesses on Rover with the tools and security of a global company to back them. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, we work closely with teams in Barcelona, San Antonio, Spokane, and remote locations. We’ve earned recognition as a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal.

At Rover, our furry coworkers are just as important as our human ones—and we’re committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community of pet people.

Hybrid Position – This role expects you to work from our Downtown Seattle Office two days per week (Mondays and Thursdays). Candidates must be based in the Greater Seattle Area or willing to relocate.

The Site Reliability Engineer will join the Site Reliability (SRE) and Production Support Team. The SRE team manages all of Rover’s infrastructure and focuses on the performance, scalability, and reliability of our systems. We build and maintain CI/CD and observability tools and help our engineering teams deliver a stable, reliable, and robust experience for our owners and sitters. The SRE and Production Support team is part of the Platform Engineering division.

is seeking a talented Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing Rover's critical infrastructure, which is built on cutting-edge technologies including Amazon EKS, Terraform, and AWS. You will maintain our CI/CD pipelines and enable our developers to have a seamless development experience. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring the performance, scalability, and reliability of our platform.

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Monitor system performance and proactively identify and resolve issues to ensure high availability.
• Develop and implement automation for deployment, monitoring, and operational tasks.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
• Participate in on‑call rotations to provide 24/7 support for critical systems.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our SRE practices and tooling.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root‑cause analysis.
• Ensure security best practices are implemented and maintained across the infrastructure.

• 2+ years as a Site Reliability Engineer or Infrastructure engineer
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
• Technical Stack:
  Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Python, and AWS
• Computer Science or equivalent background
• Bonus:
  Familiarity with RDS (MySQL/Postgre
  
  SQL)
• Bonus:
  Experience with observability tools such as Splunk, Sentry, and Datadog

• We are proud to be professional software developers building high quality, scalable, and supportable solutions.
• We are curious and passionate about learning, providing the right environment and resources for professional growth.
• We are committed to building, fostering, and maintaining a culture of inclusivity and diversity both on our teams and in our products.
• We embrace progressive engineering practices including automated testing and a continuous deployment pipeline.
• We are friendly, supportive and respectful, and we pay attention to the impact and quality of our work as well as keeping work/life balance.
• And, dogs in the office. Bring yours, too!

• Competitive compensation
• 401(k) match
• Flexible…