Data Platform Engineer – Database Platform – Python

About the Role

You’ll work on high‑scale systems used by hundreds of engineers, shaping how we run databases globally through automation, observability, and platform thinking. We provide “Databases as a Service” to the rest of Wise, managing a critical database estate of roughly 1,000 instances. Your work will design and build systems, tooling, and automation that ensure reliability, scalability, and security at every step. We are evaluating YugabyteDB as our distributed SQL engine; this role will contribute to validating, automating and operating Yugabyte‑based platform components under the guidance of senior engineers and the platform programme team.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and evolve our internal cloud‑based database platform.
• Contribute to the design, validation and rollout of YugabyteDB‑based platform components (PoC → pilot → production) in collaboration with senior engineers.
• Implement automation for provisioning, upgrades, backups and routine operations for Yugabyte clusters.
• Help embed security and compliance controls (encryption, auth, RBAC, network controls) into Yugabyte platform components.
• Collaborate with product teams, SREs and DBAs to apply platform guardrails for services adopting Yugabyte.

Essential Qualifications

• 2+ years of Platform Engineering experience (not software‑only).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP).
• Python development skills (or similar).
• 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.

Highly Sought (Preferred)

• Practical experience with distributed databases at scale (YugabyteDB preferred, or CockroachDB, TiDB, Cloud Spanner).
• Experience or strong interest in implementing migration patterns (CDC/logical replication, verification and rollback) and automation for provisioning, backups and upgrades.
• Experience building Database‑as‑a‑Service platforms or internal developer tooling.
• Optional: Some front‑end development experience.

Benefits

• Starting salary: £65,000–£85,000 + RSUs.
• Wise benefits.

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