Data Platform Engineer - Database Platform - Python

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

Job Description

You’ll work on high-scale systems used by hundreds of engineers, shaping how we run databases globally through automation, observability, and platform thinking – developing the internal database platform, automation, and tooling that powers hundreds of databases across multiple environments.

Our team provides “Databases as a Service” to the rest of Wise, managing a critical database estate of ~1,000 instances. You’ll design and build the systems, tooling, and automation that make this possible – ensuring reliability, scalability, and security at every step.

We’re evaluating YugabyteDB as our distributed SQL engine; this role will contribute to validating, automating and operating Yugabyte-based platform components under the guidance of senior engineers and the platform programme team.

How we work

We believe in automation, programmatic implementation, and reusable design. You’ll think holistically about the ecosystem, while also delivering real solutions – collaborating across the Platform tribe to make our systems more resilient and developer-friendly.

As we scale, we need engineers who can simplify complex infrastructure, build guardrails, and deliver platforms that help product teams move fast – without compromising reliability or security.

You’ll work closely with other Platform and Data teams to ensure best practices are followed and the right