Database Reliability Engineer, Wave

• 7+ years of experience in an engineering role
• Strong experience in managing Relational Databases in Kubernetes or self-hosted at scale
• Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, and database concepts
• Track record of successfully implementing observability and other SRE best practices
• Proficiency in at least one backend language, preferably Python
• Ability to debug and optimize complex systems
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Passion for our mission of bringing financial services to underserved markets
• Care a lot about working on software whose mission you can believe in
• Have a bias for action. You see a problem, you fix a problem. You get buy-in for your solutions and keep tickets moving
• Have a growth mindset and a willingness to use your skills and experience to mentor less-experienced engineers
• Have the desire to learn from others and make yourself better every day
• Are excited to build world-class infrastructure that powers economic opportunity for an entire continent

Desirable

• As a Databases Engineer at Wave, you will ensure our databases are highly reliable, scalable, and performant to support our rapid growth
• You will design, implement, and maintain robust infrastructure and tools to handle millions of transactions daily across multiple countries
• Improving our Kubernetes-based database workloads in the cloud and local datacenters
• Improving database observability through metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Optimising performance and efficiency of backend services and databases
• Collaborating with product teams to proactively improve the reliability of our services
• Participating in and improving our on-call incident response processes
• Championing security and compliance in our infrastructure
• Improving our automation and DB operations as we scale to 14 DB clusters for countries (and growing)
• Improve our hybrid infrastructure architecture in partnership with the infrastructure team
• Build tooling to load test our databases to find and remove bottlenecks
• Ensuring 99.99% uptime for payment processing despite unreliable infrastructure and communications
• Enabling instant money transfers for millions of users across several countries
• Leading or being involved in the resolution of complex incidents and problems