Senior Platform Engineer, Global Database Platform

Wise

City Of London

Hybrid

GBP 88,000 - 111,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Wise London is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer (IC3) to join our Database Platform team. You'll build and operate a global platform that's scalable, reliable, and secure—developing the internal database platform, automation, and tooling powering hundreds of databases across environments.

You'll lead end-to-end initiatives, define automation strategy, and embed security controls into platform components. Collaborating with SREs, DBAs, and product teams, you’ll drive reliability and developer

Qualifications

Significant Platform Engineering experience with senior ownership of production systems at scale.
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP).
Strong Python development skills and secure coding practices.
Proficiency with Cloud APIs and DevOps tooling.
Clear communicator who collaborates across teams.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and evolve our internal cloud-based database platform.
Lead initiatives end-to-end with a focus on predictable delivery.
Define long-term automation strategy including migrations, upgrades and recovery patterns.
Embed security and compliance controls (encryption, auth, RBAC, network controls).
Be accountable for availability, reliability, and security of owned systems.
Collaborate with product teams, SREs and DBAs to apply platform guardrails.
Mentor engineers, support onboarding, and reduce single points of failure.
Participate in on-call rotations and incident post-mortems.