diff --git a/config/config.exs b/config/config.exs
index fc8e291b..cfe32727 100644
--- a/config/config.exs
+++ b/config/config.exs
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ config :microwaveprop, MicrowavepropWeb.Endpoint,
   live_view: [signing_salt: "Gdq36xze"]
 
 config :microwaveprop, Oban,
+  engine: Oban.Pro.Engines.Smart,
   repo: Microwaveprop.Repo,
   queues: [solar: 1, weather: 20, enqueue: 1, hrrr: 5, terrain: 4, commercial: 2, iemre: 10, propagation: 1],
   plugins: [
diff --git a/config/runtime.exs b/config/runtime.exs
index da797fdf..8ba1734a 100644
--- a/config/runtime.exs
+++ b/config/runtime.exs
@@ -129,8 +129,11 @@ if config_env() == :prod do
     ],
     secret_key_base: secret_key_base
 
-  # Production Oban: live scoring, polling, and on-demand QSO enrichment
+  # Production Oban: live scoring, polling, and on-demand QSO enrichment.
+  # Runs on the Oban Pro Smart engine so we can use global_limit / rate_limit
+  # to protect rate-limited upstreams (Copernicus CDS in particular).
   config :microwaveprop, Oban,
+    engine: Oban.Pro.Engines.Smart,
     # Per-pod concurrency (×3 pods = effective cluster total)
     queues: [
       propagation: 1,
@@ -141,7 +144,11 @@ if config_env() == :prod do
       terrain: 3,
       iemre: 3,
       era5: 2,
-      era5_batch: 2,
+      era5_batch: [
+        local_limit: 2,
+        global_limit: 4,
+        rate_limit: [allowed: 10, period: {1, :hour}]
+      ],
       rtma: 2,
       backfill_enqueue: 1
     ],
diff --git a/priv/repo/migrations/20260409191733_add_oban_pro.exs b/priv/repo/migrations/20260409191733_add_oban_pro.exs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4ceee61f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/priv/repo/migrations/20260409191733_add_oban_pro.exs
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+defmodule Microwaveprop.Repo.Migrations.AddObanPro do
+  use Ecto.Migration
+
+  def up, do: Oban.Pro.Migration.up()
+
+  def down, do: Oban.Pro.Migration.down()
+end