Database Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join our team at Wave as a Databases Engineer and help us achieve our mission of making Africa the first cashless continent. As a key member of our engineering team, you will design, implement, and maintain robust infrastructure and tools to handle millions of transactions daily across multiple countries.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
• 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
• Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching