[Remote] Engineering Manager-Database Reliability

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent by building accessible financial services. As an Engineering Manager for Database Reliability, you will lead a team focused on ensuring the reliability and scalability of databases critical to the company's operations.

Responsibilities

• Support the engineers in architecting, maintaining and evolving reliable, high-performance database technologies across multiple environments
• Mentor and coach a diverse, globally distributed team of DB engineers
• Shape and refine processes like incident response, postmortems, and capacity planning to ensure smooth ops
• Collaborate with infrastructure, product, and security teams on platform database initiatives
• Drive best practices for monitoring, cost optimisation, and performance tuning in Postgres, CockroachDB and any future database we adopt
• Hire and grow the team as needed, shaping Wave’s DB reliability culture and standards

Skills

• You have at least five years of experience as a manager supporting database or storage teams
• You're willing to travel to Africa once per year for ~6 days (Wave covers all costs)
• You will have demonstrable people management experience: coaching, performance evaluation, mentorship, and career development
• You have relevant project management experience: specifically prioritisation, tracking schedules and deadlines, communicating across team/org boundaries
• You have experience managing process design: running a smooth on call rotation, incident response, postmortems, load testing, capacity planning, etc
• You have hiring experience: predicting staffing needs, designing interview loops, evaluating candidates, assisting with closing candidates at offer stage
• Proven track record of running mission-critical databases in production (replication, backups, migrations, HA/DR)
• Skilled with Kubernetes and container orchestration (experience running DB workloads in K8s is a bonus)
• You have experience working in Cloud (preferably GCP) or Data Center infrastructure

Benefits

• Wave provides a yearly $1,200 stipend to support coworking meetups with teammates.
• Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country).
• 6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance.
• Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays.
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching.
• Plus a generous equity package.
• Wave covers all costs for remote team members’ expected travel to our operational markets (e.g. Senegal or Côte d'Ivoire) at least once a year (exceptions apply).

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