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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Moniepoint MFB
Posted 3 months agoRemote, Nigeria
Location
Remote, Nigeria
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Engineering
Job Description
Who
We Are
Moniepoint is an all-in-one financial services platform for emerging markets and the second-fastest growing company in
Africa.
Since 2019,
Moniepoint’s technology has powered over 3 million people, offering personal and business banking, payment, credit and business management tools to help them succeed.
Moniepoint processed $182 billion in 2023, and currently processes the majority of the POS transactions in
Nigeria.
What
We Do
At Moniepoint, we are a customer-focused community, dedicated to crafting solutions that redefine our industry.
We have several products that provide essential services for businesses, such as credit, overdrafts, etc.
We leverage artificial intelligence and data to make our decisions, but also have the technology and data-driven best practices used to support our businesses.
Curious about what makes
Moniepoint an incredible place to work? Check out posts on how we cultivate a culture of innovation, teamwork, and growth.
We are seeking an experienced SRE to engineer the reliability of our highly distributed platform.
You will combine deep knowledge of distributed systems with strong coding skills to define SLOs, lead incident response, and build automation and self-healing mechanisms into our systems.
You will balance immediate operational stability with long-term strategic engineering to ensure our services scale linearly with our hyper-growth.
Minimum of 4 years of experience in SRE or Backend Engineering with a strong ability to write clean, performant, and tested code in Java, Go, Rust, or Python.
You possess a strong command of microservices fundamentals, event-driven architectures, and the underlying principles required to build systems that scale.
You are proficient in running production workloads on Kubernetes (GKE/EKS) and troubleshooting cluster/infrastructure issues.
Experience designing observability strategies using OpenTelemetry, Prome
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Requirements
- Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture and design patterns.
- Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar cloud providers (AWS/Azure)
- What we can offer you Culture - We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member.
- We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard.
- We value and respect each other and always look out for one another.
- Above all, we are human.
- Compensation - You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, annual bonus, plus other benefits.
- Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.
Responsibilities
- Participate in on-call rotations as the primary technical lead.
- 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.
- 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..
- Act as the Incident Commander during major severity incidents: initiating war rooms, coordinating cross-functional teams, and providing clear status updates.
- Write high-quality, production-ready code (in Java, Go, or Python) to build internal tooling, automation platforms, and self-healing mechanisms that eliminate manual operator intervention.
- Partner with Product Engineering teams during the design phase to ensure new services are built with reliability, scalability, and observability patterns (circuit breakers, rate limiting, backpressure, fallback strategies) from day one.
How to Apply
Apply through the Moniepoint careers page.
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