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Observability Specialist
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Published on 2026-09-25
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About this role
As an Observability Engineer at Wave, you will enhance the observability platform for systems that power payments across Africa. You'll partner with various teams to improve system performance and incident response.
About the company
Wave provides financial software solutions tailored for small businesses, focusing on simplifying accounting, invoicing, and payment processing. Their user-friendly platform helps entrepreneurs manage their finances efficiently, promoting business growth.
The team
Performance & Observability team
Stack
PythonGraphQLPostgresCockroachDBKubernetesDatadogPrometheusGrafana
What you'll do
- Improve understanding of production behavior across various systems
- Define service-level indicators with product teams
- Build internal tooling for incident investigation
- Identify capacity and reliability issues proactively
- Establish observability standards and documentation
- Manage the observability platform efficiently
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of experience in observability or related fields
- Deep understanding of metrics and incident response workflows
- Experience building internal tools for engineers
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Pragmatic judgment in tooling improvement
- Experience with analyzing and working on existing code