Engineering Manager - Database Reliability - Remote

Overview

Wave is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent by providing accessible financial services. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Database Reliability team, ensuring our databases are reliable and scalable as we grow.

In Short

• Lead the database reliability team to maintain high-performance database technologies.
• Mentor and coach a globally distributed team of database engineers.
• Shape processes for incident response and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with product and security teams on database initiatives.
• Drive best practices for monitoring and performance tuning.
• Hire and grow the team to enhance our DB reliability culture.
• Work with a tech stack including Python, GraphQL, and Kubernetes.
• This is a fully remote role, with travel to operational markets required.
• Competitive salary and benefits including health insurance and flexible vacation.
• Opportunity to impact millions of lives through financial services.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing database or storage teams.
• Experience in project management and process design.
• Demonstrable people management skills.
• Willingness to travel to Africa once per year.
• Timezone between GMT-1 and GMT+3.
• Experience with mission-critical databases and cloud infrastructure.

Benefits

• Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents.
• 6 months of fully paid parental leave.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching.
• $1,200 yearly stipend for coworking meetups.