Senior Data Platform Engineer I - Database Platform - Python
Wise · London, United Kingdom
About this role
Wise is hiring a senior-level Data Engineer based in London, United Kingdom. The posting calls out experience with Python, SQL, AWS, GCP. Compensation is listed at £87,500–£111,000 per year.
- Role
- Data Engineer
- Function
- data engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Posted
- May 14, 2026
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Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.
As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.
More about our mission and what we offer.
Job Description
You’ll work on high-scale systems used by hundreds of engineers, shaping how we run databases globally through automation, observability, and platform thinking - developing the internal database platform, automation, and tooling that powers hundreds of databases across multiple environments.
Our team provides “Databases as a Service” to the rest of Wise, managing a large, critical database estate of ~1,000 instances. You’ll design, build and operate the systems, tooling, and automation that make this possible - ensuring reliability, scalability, and security at every step.
You'll take long-term ownership of key platform components and are accountable for their engineering excellence and outcomes.
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