Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering

About this role

Moniepoint is seeking a Team Lead for Site Reliability Engineering in Lagos to guide a squad responsible for the reliability of its distributed financial platform. The role involves setting the technical direction, mentoring engineers, and defining the roadmap to scale reliability as the company grows.

What you would do

• Lead the SRE team.
• Architect self-healing systems.
• Define reliability standards including Production Readiness Reviews.
• Drive observability as code and automation best practices.
• Act as the escalation point for major incidents.
• Partner with Engineering Managers and Product Leads to define SLOs.

What they are asking for

• At least 6 years of experience in SRE or Backend Engineering, with a minimum of 2 years in a lead, senior, or staff role mentoring others.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java, Go, Rust, or Python.
• Mastery of distributed systems patterns and ability to design scalable architectures and explain trade-offs.
• Deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform or AWS, with extensive experience running Kubernetes (GKE) at scale and troubleshooting infrastructure issues.
• Proven experience defining observability strategies for large teams, including telemetry, monitoring and actionable alerting.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to de-escalate high-pressure war rooms.

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