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Engineering Manager-Database Reliability
Overview
Wave is hiring an Engineering Manager for Database Reliability to lead a team ensuring the reliability and scalability of Wave's databases.
Job Description
Wave is a financial services company aiming to make Africa the first cashless continent by providing affordable and accessible financial services. The company has millions of users across 9 countries and is rapidly growing.
Responsibilities
- - Support the engineers in architecting, maintaining and evolving reliable, high-performance database technologies across multiple environments
- - Mentor and coach a diverse, globally distributed team of DB engineers
- - Shape and refine processes like incident response, postmortems, and capacity planning to ensure smooth ops
- - Collaborate with infrastructure, product, and security teams on platform database initiatives
- - Drive best practices for monitoring, cost optimisation, and performance tuning in Postgres, CockroachDB and any future database we adopt
- - Hire and grow the team as needed, shaping Wave''s DB reliability culture and standards
Required Skills
- - Proven track record of running mission-critical databases in production (replication, backups, migrations, HA/DR)
- - Skilled with Kubernetes and container orchestration (experience running DB workloads in K8s is a bonus)
- - Experience working in Cloud (preferably GCP) or Data Center infrastructure
- - At least five years of experience as a manager supporting database or storage teams
- - Demonstrable people management experience: coaching, performance evaluation, mentorship, and career development
- - Relevant project management experience: specifically prioritisation, tracking schedules and deadlines, communicating across team/org boundaries
- - Experience managing process design: running a smooth on call rotation, incident response, postmortems, load testing, capacity planning, etc.
- - Hiring experience: predicting staffing needs, designing interview loops, evaluating candidates, assisting with closing candidates at offer stage
Benefits
- - Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
- - 6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
- - Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays
- - $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
About the company
We’re on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where over half the population has no bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere!
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