Thursday 3 June 2021

Production Support Engineer at Tala (formerly InVenture)

Tala (formerly InVenture) builds mobile products that help creditworthy individuals in emerging markets validate their financial identities and get access to fair credit to advance their businesses and families. Tala is providing choice and control to individuals around the world when it comes to their financial identity.

As a Production Support Engineer you will support, monitor and maintain the high availability of our platform across all of our markets. You’ll work closely with engineering, CX, product and program teams globally for production incident response and post-mortem processes. You’ll work with the CX team to discover areas of improvement for our product based on their feedback and the customer communication. You’ll continuously review and improve our existing monitoring and alerting systems.

Responsibilities

  • Ownership of risk event process for the East Africa & Asia timezone: coordinate teams responding to an incident, communicate effectively, oversee post-mortem and monitor that the follow-up action items are completed
  • Continuous improvement of our monitoring dashboards and alerts
  • In collaboration with the CX team, identify patterns in customer and product issues and propose improvements
  • Identify and communicate repeating themes around risk events and propose improvements to prevent recurrence of the same issues
  • Keep track of metrics related to production performance and identify areas of improvement

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience working in technology environment with experience in microservices architecture
  • 2+ years of experience in incident response or similar role
  • Knowledge of various monitoring platforms such as AWS CloudWatch, SumoLogic, APM monitoring (NewRelic, Instana), mobile (Crashlytics data), BI (Looker)
  • Sufficient knowledge of relational databases to be able to construct basic queries
  • Excellent debugging skills
  • Ability to coordinate incident response and communicate effectively with stakeholders from variety of teams across different timezones
  • Ability to remain calm under pressure during a production incident resolution

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