About the Role
Moniepoint is a leading financial technology company digitising Africa’s real economy by building a robust financial ecosystem for businesses. We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to engineer the reliability and scalability of our highly distributed platform as we experience hyper-growth across the continent.
Key Responsibilities- Participate in on-call rotations as the primary technical lead and act as the Incident Commander during major severity incidents.
- Instrument code to expose high-cardinality metrics while collaboratively defining and defending Service Level Objectives and Error Budgets.
- Write high-quality, production-ready code in Java, Go, or Python to build internal tooling and self-healing mechanisms.
- Partner with Product Engineering teams during the design phase to ensure new services are built with strong reliability and observability patterns.
- Analyze system performance, conduct load testing, and run chaos engineering experiments to verify resilience under failure conditions.
- 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 experience running production workloads on Kubernetes using Google Cloud Platform or similar cloud providers.
- Proficiency in designing observability strategies utilizing OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar tools.
- Familiarity with operating and tuning production data stores like PostgreSQL and streaming platforms like Kafka in high-throughput environments.
- People-first company culture that prioritizes team member well-being, collaboration, and mutual respect.
- Robust learning and development environment featuring knowledge sharing, training, and regular technical talks.
- Attractive salary package complemented by pension, health insurance, annual bonuses, and other corporate benefits.