Site Reliability Engineer
Moniepoint1 day ago
Remote, NigeriaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead on-call rotations and act as Incident Commander during major severity incidents.
- Define, measure, and defend Service Level Objectives and Error Budgets with product owners.
- Write production-ready Java, Go, or Python code for internal tooling, automation platforms, and self-healing mechanisms.
- Instrument systems with high-cardinality metrics and distributed traces.
- Partner with Product Engineering teams to implement reliability, scalability, observability, circuit-breaking, rate-limiting, backpressure, and fallback patterns.
- Analyze system performance and traffic patterns to model future capacity needs.
- Conduct load testing and chaos engineering experiments to verify resilience.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in SRE or backend engineering.
- Strong ability to write clean, performant, and tested code in Java, Go, Rust, or Python.
- Deep understanding of distributed-systems architecture, microservices, event-driven architectures, and scalable system design.
- Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform or similar cloud providers such as AWS or Azure.
- Proficiency operating production workloads on Kubernetes, including GKE or EKS, and troubleshooting cluster and infrastructure issues.
- Experience designing observability strategies using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog, or SigNoz.
- Familiarity with operating and tuning production data stores such as PostgreSQL and MySQL and streaming platforms such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Strong incident-management, reliability-engineering, and systems-operations capabilities.
Benefits
- Learning and development environment with knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
- Pension, health insurance, annual bonus, and other benefits.
- Inclusive, equal-opportunity workplace focused on employee well-being.
- Hiring process includes a recruiter phone call, technical interview with the hiring manager, and behavioral and technical interview with an executive team member.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureDatadogGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonRabbitMQRust
Categories
Site Reliability
About Moniepoint
Moniepoint builds an all-in-one financial platform for African businesses and consumers, offering merchant payments, POS devices, digital banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools. The company earns fees from payments and financial services and operates as a privately held firm. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, it is Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer and processes over $250 billion in digital payment value annually.