About the Role
Moniepoint is a leading financial technology company digitising Africa’s real economy by building a comprehensive financial ecosystem for businesses. We are currently seeking a talented Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our high-performing infrastructure team and ensure the rock-solid reliability of our highly distributed platform during a period of hyper-growth.
Key Responsibilities- Participate in on-call rotations as the primary technical lead and act as Incident Commander during major severity incidents.
- Instrument production code to expose high-cardinality metrics and distributed traces, actively defining and defending Service Level Objectives.
- Write high-quality, production-ready code in Java, Go, or Python to build internal tooling and self-healing automation mechanisms.
- Partner with Product Engineering teams during the design phase to bake reliability, scalability, and observability patterns into new services.
- Conduct load testing and chaos engineering experiments to analyze system performance and verify platform resilience.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or Backend Engineering with strong coding skills in Java, Go, Rust, or Python.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture, microservices fundamentals, and event-driven architectures.
- Extensive hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or AWS, alongside running production workloads on Kubernetes.
- Proven ability to design observability strategies using tools like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Datadog, or New Relic.
- Familiarity with tuning high-throughput production data stores such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and message streaming platforms like Kafka.
- Competitive salary with comprehensive health insurance, pension contributions, and annual performance bonuses.
- A people-first company culture that prioritizes team well-being, inclusivity, and collaborative problem-solving.
- Robust learning and development environment featuring regular internal technical talks, training sessions, and mentorship.