Luno DataOps Engineer - Principal Jobs in South Africa

Luno DataOps Engineer - Principal Jobs in South Africa


  • Our engineering team (currently ~100 engineers) is split into organisations which we call Fleets.

  • Each Fleet focuses on a core customer journey (onboarding, security, payments, support, new business, growth and marketing etc.). Each of these fleets contains multiple smaller teams called Pods, each of which focuses on a specific aspect of the product.

  • Pods will include a product owner, product designer, back-end engineers, Android, iOS and Web developers, who each bring a unique perspective to the problem you are all contributing towards.

  • We're agile, use scrum, continuous integration and continuous delivery, deploying to production every single day.

  • We're building teams to help us succeed in our mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system. You’ll be joining a group of highly motivated software engineers who you’ll work collaboratively with across our pods.

  • As a fast-growing company with offices around the world, you’ll immediately see how your contributions directly impact both our internal users and client experience. Many of the problems we are solving result in trail blazing solutions which can’t be found on Stack Overflow; so we’re looking for engineers who flourish working in a complex domain.

    In your first six months, you will:

  • Start at Luno by learning our processes, meeting the wider team and starting our engineering on-boarding program. After getting comfortable with the basics, you'll start learning our idiomatic patterns in a safe, easy-to-follow way - by building your own toy micro services.

  • You'll get to practice how we do design docs, code reviews, deployments, events, logging and monitoring.

  • You’ll meet the Pod(s) you’ll be working with and quickly align on the teams’ current OKRs and product roadmap. We succeed as a team, so we will provide you with regular feedback from your manager and peers and will encourage you to do the same.

    What you'll do:

  • Work closely with our data science and platform teams on projects introducing new streams of data into our data lake

  • You will get to bring new ideas on how to further develop and innovate our data solutions and how to expose that data to the business

  • Accountable and Responsible for the design and architecture of Data systems that are robust and scalable.

  • Work in an Agile/Scrum framework or Agile mindset

  • Data backup/recovery and
    storage

  • Pick-up and learn new concepts, in both engineering and product, and be able to apply that knowledge quickly.

    The ideal candidate for this role will have:

  • 7+ years' experience in maintaining scalable data solutions and/or you are passionate about it

  • Ability to understand, communicate and advocate between build vs buy

  • Proven track record of setting up, restructuring and maintenance of databases

  • You know your way around ETL and you have experience with SQL

  • Experience in the AWS Data stack (RedShift,DynamoDB, Amazon RDS)

  • Familiarity with integrating data stores with BI platforms such as Looker, Tableau, or Power BI

  • You have experience with the concepts of CI/CD

  • Coding skills in e.g. Go, Python

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred

  • AWS Certified DataOps Administrator

  • Be friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed

  • Basic knowledge of and passion for digital currencies like Bitcoin

  • A work permit for South Africa if you are not a South African citizen

  • Don’t be put off if you don’t tick all of the boxes – they’re a guide based on what we’d love to see but we appreciate that excellent software engineers have diverse backgrounds.

    Remote Life at Luno

  • If you’re looking to work on something truly global and disruptive with a forward-thinking and ambitious team that highly values diversity, teamwork, and the continuous quest for excellence, then this is an opportunity for you.

  • Like the majority of the companies, Luno is currently working remotely to keep our employees safe, which means you will not be physically, but virtually onboarded for now!

  • Live long and prosper. We’ve got you covered with excellent private medical insurance.

  • Generous maternity / paternity and even (yes, you are reading it correctly) paw-ternity for your furry friend..

  • Annual Inspiration Day.. like that pottery course you’ve always been meaning to do!
    Work with a diverse team of hardworking, ambitious and friendly people on something that will truly revolutionise the financial world.

  • We are a social bunch of people, we have virtual quarterly activities and drinks Fridays for whoever wants to join!

  • We have virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts Monthly to break up your day and work that other part of your brain.

    How to Apply

    For more information and job application details, see; Luno DataOps Engineer - Principal Jobs in South Africa

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