Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Full Time
4 hours ago
No Sponsorship
Key skills
GrafanaPostgresPrometheusRedisTypeScriptPostgreSQLDatadogCachingCI/CDMentoringCommunication
About this role
Role Overview
- Lead technical design and implementation for high-risk initiatives
- Design robust service boundaries and maintain infrastructure architecture
- Understand edge cases in money movement and design with compliance in mind
- Own observability metrics, logging, and alerting
- Build and refine incident response processes
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners
- Make sound decisions on architectural trade-offs
- Drive capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost-efficiency
Requirements
- Minimum of 7 years experience in SRE, DevOps, or backend infrastructure roles
- Strong scripting/programming ability (TypeScript and/or another language)
- Practical expertise with PostgreSQL operations at scale
- Practical expertise with Redis for caching and coordination
- Strong command of observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
- Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Demonstrated experience in fintech or high-stakes systems
- A track record of owning complex incidents from detection through resolution
- Strong communication skills
- A demonstrated habit of catching issues before they become incidents
- Experience mentoring or raising the operational standard of a team
Tech Stack
- Grafana
- Postgres
- Prometheus
- Redis
- TypeScript
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development