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Kappa

Redefining payments in Africa, starting in Cameroon

Systems Engineer

Location

United Kingdom

Posted

6 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Senior

5 yrs expEnglishKubernetesTerraformGo

Job Description

Systems Engineer

Kappa

• Build the infrastructure we require to run our production applications, as well as working on the applications themselves • Holistic performance tuning and reliability engineering — treating failure as an inevitability not an edge case • Security analysis — including network, OS and code techniques • Instrument our stack using a combination of metrics, traces and logs • Participate in on-call rotas to support the plant operationally

Job Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in systems engineering or a related discipline (e.g. SRE)
  • Good instincts regarding mechanical sympathy — reasoning from first principles about what goes on close to the metal
  • Strong operational instincts — understanding that building alone isn’t enough
  • Experience with infrastructure as code — declarative provisioning (Terraform or equivalent)
  • Operating systems and Kubernetes principles — user/kernel separation, system calls, etc.
  • Solid host-level networking skills
  • Observability instincts and experience — when to reach for logs, traces, metrics
  • You write golang to a level a senior backend engineer would respect — this is an engineering role, not a scripting role
  • Experience with relational databases is a strong plus

Benefits

  • Highly competitive salary and equity — top of market. We believe in hiring fewer but better people and paying them more.
  • Health, dental and vision insurance (for you and your dependents)
  • Work remotely from any Africa-friendly timezone (GMT-2h to GMT+4h), periodic team meet-ups across Europe
  • New MacBook Pro and up to $2,000 for home office equipment (headphones, chair, standing desk, etc.)
  • Parental leave / family-friendly culture
  • Unlimited paid time off

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