1 day ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve an internal cloud-based database platform.
- Lead platform initiatives including migrations, upgrades, automation, and failure-recovery patterns.
- Embed encryption, authentication, RBAC, network controls, and other security and compliance controls into platform components.
- Own the availability, reliability, and security of production systems.
- Collaborate with product teams, SREs, and DBAs to establish platform guardrails.
- Lead minor and major incident resolution, escalation support, and post-incident reviews.
- Mentor and coach engineers, support onboarding, and reduce single points of failure.
- Participate in on-call rotations, cross-tribe engineering efforts, interviewing, and hiring.
Requirements
- Significant Platform Engineering experience with senior ownership of production platform systems at scale.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure using AWS or GCP.
- Strong Python development skills or similar programming experience.
- Solid software engineering principles, including secure, testable, and maintainable code.
- Proficiency with Cloud APIs and DevOps tooling including Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, and Teleport.
- Experience leading or significantly contributing to incident response and post-incident improvement.
- Clear communication and the ability to explain technical trade-offs, business impact, and customer value.
- Highly sought: experience with distributed databases such as YugabyteDB, CockroachDB, TiDB, or Cloud Spanner.
- Highly sought: operational expertise with distributed SQL systems, migration patterns, Database-as-a-Service platforms, internal developer tooling, and technical roadmap influence.
Benefits
- Starting salary of £68,000–£87,500 plus RSUs.
- Hybrid work arrangement, indicated by the #LI-Hybrid designation.
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About Wise
Wise builds a cross-border payments and multi-currency account used by individuals and businesses to send, receive, hold, and spend money in 40+ currencies. Revenue comes from transfer and account fees, card interchange, and enterprise partnerships via Wise Platform, which lets banks and large companies embed its international payments. Founded in 2011 as TransferWise, Wise is a London-headquartered public company.