Senior Platform Engineer — Global Database Platform (RSUs)

Wise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 88,000 - 111,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wise Benefits

RSUs

Job summary

Wise is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Database Platform team. You’ll design, build, and operate a global, scalable, secure internal database platform used by hundreds of engineers across environments.

You’ll develop automation, tooling, and guardrails, collaborating with Platform and Data teams to drive reliability and developer productivity while shaping technical standards and roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Significant Platform Engineering experience with ownership of production platform systems at scale.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP).
• Strong Python development skills.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve the internal cloud-based database platform.
• Lead initiatives end-to-end, optimising for predictable delivery and measurable outcomes.
• Define long-term automation strategy, including migrations, upgrades, and failure recovery patterns.
• Embed security and compliance controls into platform components.
• Be accountable for availability, reliability, and security of owned systems.
• Collaborate with product teams, SREs and DBAs to apply platform guardrails.

Skills

AWS

GCP

Python

Cloud APIs

DevOps

Communicator

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Teleport

Job description

Wise is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Database Platform team. You’ll design, build, and operate a global, scalable, secure internal database platform used by hundreds of engineers across environments.

You’ll develop automation, tooling, and guardrails, collaborating with Platform and Data teams to drive reliability and developer productivity while shaping technical standards and roadmaps.