Wise
Global technology
SeniorPlatformEngineer-DatabasePlatform-Python
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“Senior Platform Engineer - Database Platform - Python at Wise. Skills: Platform Engineering, Database Platform, Python, YugabyteDB. Design, build, and evolve database platform. Own technical roadmap for YugabyteDB”
What You'll Achieve.
ensuring reliability, scalability, and security; take long-term ownership; accountable for their engineering excellence and outcomes; build and operate a global platform that’s scalable, reliable, and secure; shaping how we run databases globally; optimising for predictable delivery and measurable outcomes; help product teams move fast - without compromising reliability or security; keep risk within appetite; ensure best practices are followed; right abstractions are in place; explaining why work is prioritised and what impact it delivers; Be accountable for the availability, reliability, and security of the systems you own; help maintain a high engineering bar
Industry & Context.
proactively identify technical debt; plan remediation work; simplify complex infrastructure; build guardrails; lead minor and major incident resolution
Participate in on-call rotations
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Platform Engineering experience, senior ownership of production platform systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP), Python development skills, software engineering principles, Cloud APIs, DevOps tooling, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Teleport, Clear communicator, collaborates well across teams, Ability to clearly articulate technical trade-offs, business impact, customer value, leading or significantly contributing to incident response, post-incident improvement
Nice to Have
Practical experience with distributed databases at scale, YugabyteDB, CockroachDB, TiDB, Cloud Spanner, Deep operational expertise with distributed SQL systems, migration patterns, CDC/logical replication, verification and rollback, automation for provisioning, backups and upgrades, Demonstrated leadership of migration strategy and execution, Experience building Database-as-a-Service platforms, internal developer tooling, Experience influencing technical or product roadmaps
What You'll Do.
and evolve database platform
Own technical roadmap for YugabyteDB
rollout of YugabyteDB
Lead initiatives end-to-end
Implement automation for Yugabyte clusters
Define long-term automation strategy
Embed security and compliance controls
Accountable for availability
Collaborate with product teams
Act as escalation point
Mentor and coach other engineers
Participate in on-call rotations
Represent team in cross-tribe efforts
Participate in interviewing and hiring
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
collaborating across the Platform tribe; work closely with other Platform and Data teams; Collaborate with product teams, SREs and DBAs; Represent the team in cross-tribe or cross-company engineering efforts and guilds
Communication Scope
Clear communicator; collaborates well across teams; Ability to clearly articulate technical trade-offs; business impact; customer value
Process & Methodology
Own the technical roadmap and delivery, Drive the design, validation and rollout, Lead these initiatives end-to-end, optimising for predictable delivery, measurable outcomes, plan remediation work
Full Job Description
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money. As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere. More about [our mission](https://wise.jobs/our-mission) and [what we offer](https://wise.jobs/what-we-offer). You’ll work on high-scale systems used by hundreds of engineers, shaping how we run databases globally through automation, observability, and platform thinking - developing the internal database platform, automation, and tooling that powers hundreds of databases across multiple environments. Our team provides “Databases as a Service” to the rest of Wise, managing a large, critical database estate of ~1,000 instances. You’ll design, build and operate the systems, tooling, and automation that make this possible - ensuring reliability, scalability, and security at every step. You'll take long-term ownership of key platform components and are accountable for their engineering excellence and outcomes. About the role We’re looking for a SeniorPlatform Engineer to join our Database Platform team. You’ll help build and operate a global platform that’s scalable, reliable, and secure - developing the internal database platform, automation, and tooling that powers hundreds of databases across multiple environments. You’ll work on high-scale systems used by hundreds of engineers, shaping how we run databases globally. We are evaluating YugabyteDB as our distributed SQL engine. At this level you will lead technical evaluations, define adoption strategies and own significant aspects of the progression from proof-of-concept to Production and ongoing operations of this engine. This will involve working with other senior enginee
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