Senior Database Reliability Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join the Doctolib Database Optimization team in the Platform team.

As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer , your mission will be to work on ensuring the reliability and performance of our datastores while fostering a platform mindset in our transition to the "you build it, you run it" paradigm. You will be working in 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.

Working in the tech team at Doctolib involves building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients. We work in feature teams in an agile environment, while collaborating with product, design, and business teams.

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
• Database-as-a-service: Empower feature teams with database tooling, guidelines, training and support to manage and use their databases efficiently
• 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
• Datastore expertise sharing: Stay up-to-date with datastore technology evolution and share knowledge with the team on new features, best practices, and industry trends

About our tech environment

• Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to the country and healthcare specialty requirements. To address these challenges, we are modularizing our platform run in a distributed architecture through reusable components.

• Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native.

• We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here and learn about our first AI hackathon here

Before you read on — if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to apply.

• You have 7+ years of experience as a Database Reliability Engineer, or SRE with strong database expertise, or DBA with strong inclination towards site reliability practices
• You have strong expertise in at least one of our core datastores (PostgreSQL, Couchbase or OpenSearch) or an equivalent technology, in a high-load and high-availability environment
• You have hands-on experience with Kafka or an equivalent technology
• You 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
• You are fluent in English

Now, it would be fantastic if you:

• Have excellent communication and mentoring skills and embrace the "you build it, you run it" philosophy
• 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 services through Database as a Product approaches

• Free comprehensive 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 EU countries and the UK for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Work Council subsidy to refund part of sport club membership or creative class
• 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

• Permanent position
• Full-time
• Workplace: Nantes
• Start date: As soon as possible

If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles At Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination. The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability. To ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g. pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process. Join us in building the healthcare we all dream of All information provided is processed by Doctolib for application management. For data processing details, click here Please contact for inquiries or to exercise your rights.