Company 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 life 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.
Job Description
We need a Software Engineer – Site Reliability Engineering to join our mission and help us build a global platform that’s scalable, reliable and secure.
About the role
The SRE team’ mission is to focus on engineering-wide reliability problems at Wise. We set the reliability standard we expect of our hundreds of microservices to achieve, we do this via libraries, tooling, documentation, consulting and hands-on contribution.
As we scale we continue to push our teams to run autonomously. They are closest to our customers, so they’re empowered to decide what to prioritise and deliver, without being told what to do by leadership. This means they can move fast and run multiple projects at the same time.
At Wise we split our time between the office and home focusing on using the most appropriate place for our activities. Think about coming together in person for events which focus on coaching, community and collaboration.
Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the Team
You’ll be working with product and platform teams to tighten the loop between the two
Identify potential reliability issues before they impact our customers
Measure our reliability to help teams make data-driven decisions
Is that you?
Experience of Incident Management and enjoy troubleshooting
Experience in implementing SRE principles, understand the differences between SLI/SLO/SLAs
Knowledge of architectural concepts such as microservices, service mesh
You’re passionate about helping others and keen to roll up your sleeves and take ownership to drive company-wide impact
Nice to Have
Experience of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP)
Containerisation technology and orchestration platforms e.g. Docker, Kubernetes
Understanding and knowledge of different tiers of storage
Experience working in regulated business – PCI etc
Have experience of capacity planning as well as performance and load testing
Basic sysadmin skills in debugging issues with disk, network, app/JVM performance etc
What does success look like?
You’ll be building and maintaining the infrastructure and foundation of the technical parts of Wise
You’ll ensure we have our services up and running so product teams can work efficiently
You’ll understand our customers and the impact our product makes in their lives
You’ll have onboarded and found your place through understanding your team and tribe vision and how you can contribute
You’ll also have found your place in our mission and you understand our values and how they can guide you doing your best work
You help Wise achieve its mission by building on one of the key foundation technology layers at the heart of our platform.
Interested? Find out more:
What do we offer:
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Additional Information
For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
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