Senior Data Platform Engineer I – Database Platform – Python

Job Description

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage money worldwide. Your work will help create an entirely new network for the world’s money, enabling a smooth international payment experience.

Role Overview

You will join the Database Platform team as a Senior Platform Engineer, designing, building, and operating a global database platform that powers hundreds of databases across multiple environments. You will take ownership of key platform components and drive engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve our internal cloud‑based database platform.
• Own the technical roadmap and delivery for the YugabyteDB platform components you are responsible for.
• Drive the design, validation and rollout of YugabyteDB‑based components (PoC → pilot → production) in collaboration with senior engineers.
• Lead initiatives end‑to‑end, optimising 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.
• Embed security and compliance controls (encryption, auth, RBAC, network 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 incident resolution and post‑incident reviews.
• Mentor and coach engineers, support onboarding, and 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.

Essential Qualifications

• Significant platform engineering experience with senior ownership of production platform systems at scale.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP).
• Strong 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.
• Ability to clearly articulate technical trade‑offs, business impact, and customer value.
• Experience leading or significantly contributing to incident response and post‑incident improvement.

Highly Sought (Preferred)

• Practical experience with distributed databases at scale (YugabyteDB preferred, or CockroachDB/TiDB/Cloud Spanner).
• Deep operational expertise with distributed SQL systems in production.
• Experience or strong interest in implementing migration patterns (CDC/logical replication, verification and rollback) and automation for provisioning, backups and upgrades.
• Demonstrated leadership of migration strategy and execution.
• Experience building Database‑as‑a‑Service platforms or internal developer tooling.
• Experience influencing technical or product roadmaps.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary: £85,000 – £105,000 + RSUs.
• Extensive benefits package.

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