Quality & Reliability Engineer (QRE)

WatersEdge Solutions; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 400 000 - 500 000; Full time

Job summary

A growing tech company in Johannesburg is seeking an experienced professional to own and enhance their CI/CD pipelines in a high-growth SaaS environment. This role includes managing deployments, monitoring system health, and boosting developer productivity. The ideal candidate has solid experience in CI/CD systems, Python, and automated testing. Join a collaborative team dedicated to delivering secure and stable software, with competitive compensation and an agile work culture.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Direct influence on reliability strategy

Agile, low-bureaucracy culture

Meaningful work for financial equity

Qualifications

• Solid experience with CI / CD systems.
• Comfortable with cloud pipeline platforms.
• Skilled in Python and shell scripting.
• Hands-on with automated testing frameworks.
• Familiar with observability and monitoring tools.
• Proven ability to deliver secure, reliable systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and enhance CI / CD pipelines and enforce quality gates.
• Manage deployments and ensure safe releases.
• Monitor system health and lead incident response.
• Maintain and evolve test infrastructure.
• Integrate security practices into pipelines.
• Boost developer productivity by improving tooling.

Skills

CI / CD systems

Python

Shell scripting

Automated testing frameworks

Observability tools

Feature flagging tools

Tools

GitHub Actions

Heroku

Sentry

CircleCI

Job description

About the Role

You’ll be a central figure in ensuring our platform is secure, stable, and continuously improving. Working across product, development, and operations, you’ll own our CI / CD infrastructure, enforce quality gates, and monitor production health. It’s a role with broad impact and the autonomy to shape how we build and ship software.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and enhance CI / CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Heroku Pipelines) and enforce quality gates.
• Manage deployments and ensure safe releases with practices like feature flags and canary rollouts.
• Monitor system health with tools like Sentry and performance dashboards; lead incident response.
• Maintain and evolve test infrastructure (unit, integration, and acceptance tests).
• Integrate security practices into pipelines and support platform hardening (IAM, key management).
• Boost developer productivity by improving tooling and shortening build-to-deploy cycles.

What You’ll Bring

• Solid experience with CI / CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI).
• Comfortable with cloud pipeline platforms (Heroku a plus).
• Skilled in Python and shell scripting (Django familiarity a bonus).
• Hands-on with automated testing frameworks.
• Familiar with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Sentry).
• Proven ability to deliver secure, reliable systems in SaaS or FinTech contexts.

Nice to Have

• Experience with feature flagging tools (e.g., Unleash, LaunchDarkly).
• Understanding of SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliance in CI / CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with data privacy in multi-tenant environments.
• Experience running post-mortems and managing incident learnings.

What’s On Offer

• Competitive compensation.
• Direct influence on reliability strategy in a high-growth SaaS environment.
• Agile, low-bureaucracy culture with fast decision-making.
• Meaningful work that helps power financial equity for global workforces.

Company Culture

At WatersEdge Solutions, we partner with visionary teams who build impactful technology—and this one is no exception. The team is collaborative, diverse, and deeply technical, with a mix of accountants, engineers, and product experts. They move fast, believe in autonomy, and value quality without politics. If you're a systems thinker with a passion for shipping secure and stable software, you'll find your place here.

If you have not been contacted within 10 working days, please consider your application unsuccessful.