Staff Site Reliability Engineer (platform)

• Look at the big picture: You will contribute to building and deploying a new banking architecture at the European level
• Build robust solutions: Work in collaboration with backend, frontend & security engineers to design, deploy & maintain our microservice infrastructure
• Improve velocity: Reduce toil through automation and pragmatism
• Maintain availability: Participate in the on-call rotation & post-incident reviews with backend engineers
• Contribute to shine through the tech ecosystem: You will share your knowledge through communication, documentation, and talks

🛠 What stack you can expect

• Cloud provider: AWS & a bit of GCP
• Container technologies: Kubernetes (EKS & GKE), ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Karpenter
• CI/CD: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
• Monitoring: Metrics with Prometheus & Thanos, traces with OpenTelemetry, on-call with OpsGenie, and logs with Elasticsearch & Loki
• DB and messaging: AWS RDS PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, SQS, Redis, and Kafka
• Programming language: Go
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

• Learn to use problem-solving methodologies
• Develop microservices to reduce toil
• Spend time designing robust solutions by taking into consideration Qonto scaling needs (20 000 to 60 000 logs per second, 20 000 pods, 180 microservices & 4000 deployments in production per month)
• Autonomy in proposing solutions in a bottom-up approach while avoiding biased thinking using the Qonto way (lean methodologies)
• Work on modern stacks through GitOps & challenge the technical status quo
• Collaborate with other teams on tech challenges, spec reviews, brainstorming & problem-solving sessions
• Reducing cost by using both a pragmatic approach and applying a long-term vision to ensure cost per customer continues to decrease

🤝 About your future manager:

• Your manager will be Morgan. His leadership style is built on autonomy and trust, encouraging his team to experiment, learn, and grow. He promotes a strong team spirit where everyone can fully express themselves and contribute. He guides by always maintaining a clear vision of our objectives and the value we bring to the company. This approach allows each team member to develop their skills while staying aligned with our collective mission.

• Experience: You have strong experience working with infrastructure tools & developing high-quality tested tools to reduce toil (in a fast-paced/startup environment would be a plus). You have strong production experience managing Kubernetes clusters and their workloads.
• Programming skills: You have at least one experience in a programming language, and you're passionate about leveraging these languages to develop efficient and scalable solutions for infrastructure management and automation.
• Problem solver: You are a pragmatic and solution-oriented engineer, with an interest in solving problems and delivering value; You embrace failure to raise the level of quality of each service/stack.
• Impact maker: You want to build a product that is used by thousands of companies, in a fast-growing environment while preserving a high level of reliability
• Curiosity: You are a curious and open-minded engineer eager to learn;
• Team player: You have good communication skills, and are comfortable working in a team;
• Continuous improvement mindset: You always look for ways to enhance processes, systems, and products to achieve the best possible quality. You are unsatisfied with the status quo and actively seek opportunities for improvement.
• Languages: You are fluent in English. French is a plus.

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