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MoniepointSenior Site Reliability Engineer
Moniepoint is an African financial platform delivering banking, credit, payments, and business management tools to millions of users and merchants. Handling substantial digital transaction volumes annually,…
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Moniepoint is an African financial platform delivering banking, credit, payments, and business management tools to millions of users and merchants. Handling substantial digital transaction volumes annually, the company operates as a major merchant acquirer and utilizes data-driven practices alongside artificial intelligence to power its services. The organization is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to focus on the stability of a heavily distributed platform. This position involves combining systems expertise…
Job Description
Moniepoint is an African financial platform delivering banking, credit, payments, and business management tools to millions of users and merchants. Handling substantial digital transaction volumes annually, the company operates as a major merchant acquirer and utilizes data-driven practices alongside artificial intelligence to power its services.
The organization is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to focus on the stability of a heavily distributed platform. This position involves combining systems expertise with software development abilities to establish service level objectives, guide incident management, and construct self-healing systems and automation tools. The role suits engineering professionals capable of balancing daily operational health with strategic scalability during periods of rapid growth.
Candidates will collaborate directly with product engineering units during the architectural phase to embed observability and resilience patterns from the start. Duties include leading critical incident responses, instrumenting code for distributed traces, modeling future resource demands, and conducting chaos experiments.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary technical lead during on-call rotations
- Lead high-severity incidents as the Incident Commander by establishing war rooms and coordinating cross-functional groups
- Instrument application code to capture distributed traces and high-cardinality metrics
- Collaborate with product owners to define, measure, and uphold Error Budgets and Service Level Objectives
- Develop production-ready software using Go, Java, or Python to create internal platforms, automation, and self-healing systems
- Collaborate with product engineering groups during system design to implement patterns like circuit breakers, rate limiting, and backpressure
- Evaluate performance trends and traffic patterns to project future capacity requirements
- Perform load tests and chaos engineering experiments to test platform resilience under failure scenarios
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional background in Site Reliability Engineering or Backend Engineering
- Ability to write clean, tested, and performant code in Java, Go, Rust, or Python
- Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, microservices, and event-driven patterns
- Extensive working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform or alternative providers like AWS and Azure
- Proficiency in managing production workloads on Kubernetes and resolving infrastructure or cluster issues
- Experience implementing observability frameworks such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, or SigNoz
- Familiarity with tuning and running production data stores like PostgreSQL and MySQL alongside streaming platforms like Kafka or RabbitMQ
Core Skills
Benefits
- Attractive salary
- Pension contributions
- Health insurance coverage
- Annual bonus
- Access to learning and development programs, training sessions, and internal technical talks
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What is the employment type?
The position is a full-time role.
What salary does Moniepoint offer for this role?
The exact salary is not stated in the job posting, though an attractive salary is listed among the benefits.
What experience is required for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer position?
Applicants must have a minimum of 5 years of background in Site Reliability Engineering or Backend Engineering, with strong coding skills in Java, Go, Rust, or Python.
What does the hiring process involve?
The hiring process consists of an initial phone call with a recruiter, a technical interview with the Hiring Manager, and a combined technical and behavioral interview with an Executive team member.
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