Database reliability engineer

Quona Capital
Full-time cape town, western cape Other-General
Posted:
June 12, 2026
Location:
cape town, western cape, South-Africa

Job Description

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, queryable outputs Work with modern data t...

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Job Overview

Job Type: Full-time
Location: cape town, South-Africa
Posted: June 12, 2026
Deadline: July 22, 2026