Senior Database Reliability Engineer

The team which you will join ensures the reliability and performance of our datastores while fostering a platform mindset in our transition to the "you build it, you run it" paradigm. It is a multidisciplinary team made of both Site Reliability Engineers and Software Engineers, which enables us to have a complete view of the problems we need to solve and of the alternative solutions we might implement to solve them.

As a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE), you will play a critical role in our mission for our main datastores: PostgreSQL / AWS Aurora, Kafka and Couchbase.

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Reliability Engineering: Ensure high availability of our datastores and our own operational efficiency through observability, automation, tooling, backup strategies, disaster recovery planning and process improvement,
• Database maintenance: Handle database infrastructure maintenance including upgrades, performance optimization, cost optimization and capacity planning,
• Incident mitigation: Participate in incident response for datastore-related issues in production during business hours, when the issue cannot be fixed by the responsible feature team,
• Database-as-a-service: Empower feature teams with database tooling, rationalized guidelines, training and support to manage and use their databases efficiently,
• Datastore expertise sharing: Stay up-to-date with datastore technology evolution and subtleties and share knowledge with the team on new features, best practices, and industry trends.

You could be our next team mate if you:

• Have 6+ years of experience as a Database Reliability Engineer, or SRE with strong database expertise, or DBA with strong inclination towards site reliability practices,
• Have strong expertise in PostgreSQL or an equivalent technology, in a high-load and high-availability environment,
• Have hands-on experience with Kafka or an equivalent technology,
• Have hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud environments (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud) in a production environment,
• Have excellent communication and mentoring skills and embrace the "you build it, you run it" philosophy,
• Speak English.

Now, it would be fantastic if you also:

• Have experience with multiple kinds of datastores and have curiosity and willingness to learn new datastores and adapt to evolving technology landscapes,
• Have been involved in architecture choices for high traffic web applications, particularly scalability challenges on large databases, and building self-service platforms through Database as a Product approaches,
• Are comfortable with Linux systems administration, automation, and performance troubleshooting.

• Free health insurance for you and your children
• Parent Care Program: receive one additional month of leave on top of the legal parental leave
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner
• For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
• Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Up to 14 days of RTT
• A subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class
• Lunch voucher with Swile card

• Recruiter Interview
• DBRE technical interview
• System Design Interview
• Behavioral interview
• At least one reference check
• Offer

• Permanent position
• Full-time
• Workplace: Levallois-Perret

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