Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

Moniepoint is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability of its highly distributed fintech 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.

Key responsibilities

• Participate in on‑call rotations and act as Incident Commander during major incidents, coordinating cross‑functional teams.
• Instrument code to expose high‑cardinality metrics and distributed traces, and define, measure, and defend Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets.
• Write production‑ready code in Java, Go, Python or Rust to build internal tooling, automation platforms, and self‑healing mechanisms.
• Partner with product engineering teams during design to embed reliability, scalability, and observability patterns such as circuit breakers, rate limiting, and fallback strategies.
• Analyze system performance, model capacity needs, conduct load testing and chaos engineering experiments.

Required profile

• Minimum 4 years of experience in SRE or backend engineering.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture, microservices, and event‑driven designs.
• Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform or similar cloud providers (AWS/Azure).
• Proficiency in running production workloads on Kubernetes and troubleshooting cluster issues.
• Experience designing observability strategies using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog or SigNoz.

Required skills

• Java, Go, Python, Rust
• Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure
• Kubernetes (GKE/EKS)
• OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog, SigNoz
• PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ

What we offer

• Culture that puts people first and values every voice.
• Learning environment with knowledge sharing, training, and internal technical talks.
• Attractive salary, pension, health insurance, annual bonus and other benefits.