Site Reliability Engineer, Wave

• 4+ years of experience in an SRE or DevOps role
• Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, and database concepts
• Track record of successfully implementing observability, CI/CD, and other SRE best practices
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred), Kubernetes, Terraform
• 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 Site Reliability Engineer at Wave, you will be responsible for ensuring our systems 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 system observability through metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Optimizing performance and efficiency of backend services and databases
• Automating cloud and datacenter operations and promoting infrastructure-as-code best practices
• 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
• In this role, you will have the opportunity to tackle exciting challenges, such as:
• Scaling our ledger to handle 10x transaction volume
• Ensuring 99.99% uptime for payment processing despite unreliable infrastructure and communications
• Keeping costs stable while we scale
• Detecting and blocking fraud in real-time at a massive scale
• Securely storing, transferring, and encrypting sensitive financial data
• Enabling instant money transfers for millions of users across several countries
• Leading or being involved in the resolution of complex incidents and problems
• This role involves participating in an on-call rotation

• Fill out the form below, and upload a resume in English and a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role