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Database Reliability Engineer

📍 Location
Cape Town
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
May 30, 2026

About the Role

OVERALL PURPOSE

We are building a small, focused innovation pod inside a fintech scale-up — and data reliability is at the core of everything we ship.

This is not a traditional DBA role. You will own the full lifecycle of data in the pod: pipelines, migrations, schema safety, and the observability to know when something breaks before the business does. You will also own CI/CD and the infrastructure layer on Azure — because in a small, fast-moving team, deployment reliability and data reliability are the same problem.

If you have made the shift from protecting databases to enabling teams to move fast without breaking data, and want to build something from the ground up within a fast-moving agentic development process, this is the role.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:


+ Design, execute, and safeguard database and schema migrations — including rollback strategies

+ Build and maintain data pipelines — from ingestion through to reliable, qu...

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