Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent by providing accessible financial services. They are seeking an Engineering Manager for the Database Reliability team to ensure the reliability and scalability of their database systems, which are critical for their rapidly growing user base.
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
Skills
- You have at least five years of experience as a manager supporting database or storage teams
- You're in a timezone between GMT-1 and GMT+3
- You're willing to travel to Africa once per year for ~6 days (Wave covers all costs)
- You will have demonstrable people management experience: coaching, performance evaluation, mentorship, and career development
- You have relevant project management experience: specifically prioritisation, tracking schedules and deadlines, communicating across team/org boundaries
- You have experience managing process design: running a smooth on call rotation, incident response, postmortems, load testing, capacity planning, etc
- You have hiring experience: predicting staffing needs, designing interview loops, evaluating candidates, assisting with closing candidates at offer stage
- 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)
- You have experience working in Cloud (preferably GCP) or Data Center infrastructure
Benefits
- Wave provides a yearly $1,200 stipend to support coworking meetups with teammates.
- Remote team members are expected to travel to our operational markets (e.g. Senegal or Côte d'Ivoire) at least once a year. Exceptions apply, but we’ve found this key to understanding our users and product.
- 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.
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