About the company
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve our internal cloud-based database platform
- Lead these initiatives end-to-end, optimising for predictable delivery and measurable outcomes
- Define the long-term automation strategy, including migrations, upgrades, and failure recovery patterns
- Help embed security and compliance controls (encryption, auth, RBAC, network controls) into Yugabyte platform components
- Be accountable for the availability, reliability, and security of the systems you own
- Collaborate with product teams, SREs and DBAs to apply platform guardrails for services adopting database technologies
- Act as the escalation point for your area, leading minor and major incident resolution and post-incident reviews
- Mentor and coach other engineers, support onboarding, and actively reduce single points of failure
- Participate in on-call rotations and provide senior escalation support when required
- Represent the team in cross-tribe or cross-company engineering efforts and guilds
- Participate in interviewing and hiring activities
Requirements
- Significant Platform Engineering experience, with demonstrated senior ownership of production platform systems at scale
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP)
- Strong Python development skills (or similar)
- Solid understanding of software engineering principles - writing secure, testable, maintainable code
- Proficiency with Cloud APIs and DevOps
Conditions
- Location: London, UK
- Compensation: GBP 87,500 - 111,000 yearly