Database Reliability Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Improve Kubernetes-based database workloads in the cloud and local datacenters
• - Improve database observability through metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
• - Optimize performance and efficiency of backend services and databases
• - Collaborate with product teams to proactively improve the reliability of services
• - Participate in and improve on-call incident response processes
• - Champion security and compliance in infrastructure
• - Improve automation and DB operations as Wave scales
• - Build tooling to load test databases to find and remove bottlenecks
• - Ensure 99.99% uptime for payment processing
• - Enable instant money transfers for millions of users
• - Lead or be involved in the resolution of complex incidents and problems

Required Skills

• - 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 Wave's mission of bringing financial services to underserved markets
• - Experience supporting high-volume transactional systems in the finance/payments domain
• - Familiarity with Wave's tech stack (Postgres, Redis, GraphQL)
• - Knowledge of security and compliance standards for financial services
• - Contributions to open-source projects or database community

Benefits

• - Work remotely from anywhere (between UTC -1 and +5)
• - Travel covered once per year to one of Wave's operating countries in Africa
• - Yearly stipend of $800 to meet with coworkers
• - Performance reviews twice a year with bonuses or promotions
• - Competitive salary with a generous equity package
• - Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents
• - Retirement contributions
• - 6 months fully paid parental leave
• - Subsidized fertility assistance
• - Flexible vacation, with most taking between 30-40 days per year
• - $10,000 annual charitable donation matching