Software Engineer – Database Platform

Overview

Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a global, scalable, and secure internal database platform. You will lead end-to-end initiatives, set automation strategies, and embed security controls to support hundreds of engineers and databases worldwide. You’ll collaborate across Platform and Data teams to reinforce best practices and guardrails, shaping the platform’s direction and driving reliable, developer-friendly solutions. This role offers impact through building a trusted data foundation at Wise.

Pay / Benefits

• RSUs
• Hybrid work (LI-Hybrid)
• Competitive salary
• Wise Benefits
• Career development opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve the internal cloud-based database platform
• Lead initiatives end-to-end with predictable delivery and measurable outcomes
• Define long-term automation strategy for migrations, upgrades, and failure recovery
• Embed security and compliance controls into platform components (encryption, auth, RBAC, network controls)
• Ensure availability, reliability, and security of owned systems
• Collaborate with product teams, SREs, and DBAs to apply platform guardrails
• Escalation point for incidents and post-incident reviews
• Mentor engineers, support onboarding, and reduce single points of failure
• Participate in on-call rotations and senior escalation support
• Represent the team in cross-tribe/company engineering efforts and guilds
• Participate in interviewing and hiring to maintain high engineering bar

Key requirements

• Significant Platform Engineering experience with ownership of production platforms at scale
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP)
• Strong Python development skills (or similar)
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles (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 articulate technical trade-offs, business impact, and customer value
• Experience leading or contributing to incident response and post-incident improvement

• Clear communicator
• Collaborative mindset
• Mentoring and coaching
• Python
• Terraform
• Ansible

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