Wave Mobile Money is hiring a
Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join our mission to make Africa the first cashless continent as a Site Reliability Engineer at Wave, where you will design, implement, and maintain robust infrastructure and tools to handle millions of transactions daily across multiple countries.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• Improve system observability through metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Optimize performance and efficiency of backend services and databases
• Automate cloud and datacenter operations and promoting infrastructure-as-code best practices
• Collaborate with product teams to proactively improve the reliability of our services
• Participate in and improve our on-call incident response processes
• Champion security and compliance in our infrastructure
• Scale our ledger to handle 10x transaction volume
• Ensure 99.99% uptime for payment processing despite unreliable infrastructure and communications
• Keep costs stable while we scale
• Detect and block fraud in real-time at a massive scale
• Securely store, transfer, and encrypt sensitive financial data
• Enable instant money transfers for millions of users across several countries
• Lead or be involved in the resolution of complex incidents and problems

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