Database Reliability Engineer
Sporty Group is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer to take ownership of its existing and new database infrastructure for multiple platforms and facilitate releases into new regions. The systems were built from scratch approximately four years ago, meaning the role involves working with the latest technology. There is also freedom to research and implement new technologies into the stack as the team sees fit.
The role involves working in a team of DBRE and DevOps professionals to design, implement, and maintain highly available database architectures to support business growth across multiple countries. The successful candidate will improve existing database infrastructure, including performance tuning, capacity planning, backup/recovery strategies, and disaster recovery procedures.
- Work in a team of DBRE and DevOps professionals.
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available database architectures to support business growth across multiple countries.
- Improve existing database infrastructure, including performance tuning, capacity planning, backup/recovery strategies, and disaster recovery procedures.
- Develop automation tools and internal platforms using Go/Python to streamline database operations, reduce manual interventions, and minimise human errors.
- Monitor database health and performance metrics, establish alerting mechanisms based on SLO burn rates, and proactively identify potential issues.
- Take ownership and responsibility for database operations including schema changes, data migrations, and production deployments.
- Collaborate with development teams to provide database design consultation, query optimisation, and troubleshooting support.
- Conduct regular database security audits and implement security best practices to protect sensitive data.
- 4+ years experience tackling and managing advanced MySQL and MongoDB problems (required).
- Proven experience in managing large-scale database systems in production environments (required).
- Deep understanding of database architecture, performance optimisation, high availability solutions, and database security best practices (required).
- Passion for following the latest industry trends in database technologies and building reliable, scalable data infrastructure (required).
- Strong automation mindset and programming skills to build tools that improve database operations and reliability (required).
- Understanding of SLI/SLO/SLA concepts and experience implementing reliability engineering practices (required).
- Competitive salary plus individual performance-based bonuses every quarter.
- 28 days paid annual leave.
- Flexible working hours with core hours of 10am-3pm in the local time zone.
- Referral bonuses and flash bonuses.
- Top of the line equipment.
- Annual company retreats for internal networking.
Sporty Group is a sports technology company whose brands include SportyBet, a mobile-first sportsbook licensed in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda, alongside the Sporty.com app and the SportyTV broadcast service in Nigeria. SportyBet has sponsorship partnerships with Real Madrid and Manchester City. The group hires across Europe, Latin America and Asia, and many of its technology and product roles are remote.