Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

Overview

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Wave, you will be responsible for ensuring our systems are highly reliable, scalable, and performant to support our rapid growth.

In Short

• Improve system observability through metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Optimize performance and efficiency of backend services and databases.
• Automate cloud and datacenter operations and promoting infrastructure-as-code best practices.
• 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.
• Scale our ledger to handle 10x transaction volume.
• Ensure 99.99% uptime for payment processing despite unreliable infrastructure and communications.
• Keep costs stable while we scale.
• Detect and block fraud in real-time at a massive scale.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in an SRE or DevOps role
• Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, and database concepts
• Track record of successfully implementing observability, CI/CD, and other SRE best practices
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred), Kubernetes, Terraform
• 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.
• 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.