Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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MoniepointFintech
Remote, NigeriaFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of experience
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLPythonGCPJavaKubernetesGoRustDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in SRE or Backend Engineering.
- Ability to write clean, performant, and tested code in Java, Go, Rust, or Python.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture and design patterns.
- Strong command of microservices fundamentals and event-driven architectures.
- Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar cloud providers (AWS/Azure).
- Proficient in running production workloads on Kubernetes (GKE/EKS) and troubleshooting cluster/infrastructure issues.
- Experience designing observability strategies using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog, or SigNoz.
- Familiarity with operating and tuning production data stores (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL).
- Familiarity with streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) in a high-throughput environment.
Responsibilities
- Participate in on-call rotations as the primary technical lead.
- Act as the Incident Commander during major severity incidents: initiating war rooms, coordinating cross-functional teams, and providing clear status updates.
- Instrument code to expose high-cardinality metrics and distributed traces.
- Collaboratively define, measure, and defend Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Error Budgets with product owners.
- Write high-quality, production-ready code (in Java, Go, or Python) to build internal tooling, automation platforms, and self-healing mechanisms.
- Partner with Product Engineering teams during the design phase to ensure new services are built with reliability, scalability, and observability patterns.
- Analyze system performance and traffic patterns to model future capacity needs.
- Conduct load testing and chaos engineering experiments to verify system resilience under failure conditions.
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