Senior Platform Engineer, Global Database Platform

Wise; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 88,000 - 111,000; Full time

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Job summary

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Database Platform team, building a scalable, reliable, and secure internal database platform used by hundreds of engineers.

You’ll lead end-to-end initiatives, drive automation, and collaborate with Platform and Data teams to set standards and guardrails that keep risk low while enabling product teams to move fast.

Qualifications

• Significant Platform Engineering experience with production platform systems at scale.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP).
• Strong Python development skills (or similar).
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles - writing secure, testable, maintainable code.
• Proficiency with Cloud APIs and DevOps tooling (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Teleport).
• Clear communicator who collaborates well across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve the internal cloud-based database platform.
• Lead these initiatives end-to-end, optimising for predictable delivery and measurable outcomes.
• Define the long-term automation strategy, including migrations, upgrades, and failure recovery patterns.
• Help embed security and compliance controls (encryption, auth, RBAC, network controls) into Yugabyte platform components.
• Be accountable for the availability, reliability, and security of the systems you own.
• Collaborate with product teams, SREs and DBAs to apply platform guardrails for services adopting database technologies.
• Act as the escalation point for your area, leading minor and major incident resolution and post-incident reviews.
• Mentor and coach other engineers, support onboarding, and actively reduce single points of failure.
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide senior escalation support when required.
• Represent the team in cross-tribe or cross-company engineering efforts and guilds.
• Participate in interviewing and hiring activities, following best practices and helping maintain a high engineering bar.

Job description

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Database Platform team, building a scalable, reliable, and secure internal database platform used by hundreds of engineers.

You’ll lead end-to-end initiatives, drive automation, and collaborate with Platform and Data teams to set standards and guardrails that keep risk low while enabling product teams to move fast.