Database Reliability Engineer

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Description

• Ensure our databases are highly reliable, scalable, and performant to support our rapid growth. • Design, implement, and maintain robust infrastructure and tools to handle millions of transactions daily across multiple countries. • Improve our 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 our services. • Participate in and improve our on-call incident response processes. • Champion security and compliance in our infrastructure.

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

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