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
