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
