Engineering Manager-Database Reliability

Wave is a financial services company that aims to make Africa the first cashless continent. They are looking for an Engineering Manager-Database Reliability to lead their database reliability team, ensuring that Wave's databases are always up and can scale with their growing user base.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a manager supporting database or storage teams
• Proven track record of running mission-critical databases in production
• Skilled with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Experience working in Cloud (preferably GCP) or Data Center infrastructure
• Demonstrable people management experience: coaching, performance evaluation, mentorship, and career development
• Relevant project management experience: prioritisation, tracking schedules and deadlines, communicating across team/org boundaries
• Experience managing process design: running a smooth on call rotation, incident response, postmortems, load testing, capacity planning, etc.
• Hiring experience: predicting staffing needs, designing interview loops, evaluating candidates, assisting with closing candidates at offer stage

Benefits

• Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents
• Retirement contributions
• 6 months of fully paid parental leave
• Subsidized fertility assistance
• Flexible vacation
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching