Senior Platform Engineer I - Database Platform - Python at Wise

Wise

London, gb·3h ago

SeniorFull-timePythonRailsAWSGCPTerraformCI/CD

Salary Range

$99,450 - $134,550 /year

Estimated

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About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Database Platform team at Wise. This role involves building and operating a global platform that is scalable, reliable, and secure, focusing on internal database platforms, automation, and tooling.

Key Responsibilities

→Design, build, and evolve our internal cloud-based database platform.
→Own the technical roadmap and delivery for the YugabyteDB platform components.
→Drive the design, validation, and rollout of YugabyteDB-based platform components.
→Lead initiatives end-to-end, optimizing for predictable delivery and measurable outcomes.
→Implement automation for provisioning, upgrades, backups, and routine operations for Yugabyte clusters.
→Define the long-term automation strategy, including migrations, upgrades, and failure recovery patterns.
→Help embed security and compliance controls into Yugabyte platform components.
→Be accountable for the availability, reliability, and security of the systems you own.
→Collaborate with product teams, SREs, and DBAs to apply platform guardrails for services adopting Yugabyte.
→Act as the escalation point for your area, leading minor and major incident resolution and post-incident reviews.
→Mentor and coach other engineers, support onboarding, and actively reduce single points of failure.
→Participate in on-call rotations and provide senior escalation support when required.
→Represent the team in cross-tribe or cross-company engineering efforts and guilds.
→Participate in interviewing and hiring activities, following best practices and helping maintain a high engineering bar.

Requirements

✓Significant Platform Engineering experience, with demonstrated senior ownership of production platform systems at scale.
✓Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP).
✓Strong Python development skills.
✓Solid understanding of software engineering principles - writing secure, testable, maintainable code.
✓Proficiency with Cloud APIs and DevOps tooling (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Teleport).
✓Clear communicator who collaborates well across teams.
✓Ability to clearly articulate technical trade-offs, business impact, and customer value.
✓Experience leading or significantly contributing to incident response and post-incident improvement.