Our mission 🚀

Founded in 1999, Scaleway, the cloud of choice, helps developers and businesses to build, deploy and scale applications to any infrastructure. Located in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw, Scaleway’s complete cloud ecosystem is used by 25,000+ businesses, including European startups, who choose Scaleway for its multi-AZ redundancy, smooth developer experience, carbon-neutral data centers and native tools for managing multi-cloud architectures. With fully managed offerings for bare metal, containerization and serverless architectures, Scaleway brings choice to the world of cloud computing, offering customers the ability to choose where their customer’s data resides, to choose what architecture works best for their business, and to choose a more responsible way to scale.

Our journey 💡

We want all our actions and decisions to bring us closer to achieving our vision: building and scaling technologies that make sense to us, to our customers and their end users. Scaleway is the challenger nobody’s expecting.As our business scales, the customers and developers we serve are increasingly diverse and global. Giving them an unbeatable experience is central to our business strategy and value proposition. To better understand them, we've discovered that the best way to deliver the highest value and performance is by incorporating a well-rounded team that leverages diverse perspectives, knowledge, skills, and cross-cultural understanding.

Our values 💜

Singularity: We do it our own way.

Community: One company, one culture

Adventure: Level up if you dare, never stop innovating.

Leadership: Be the leader you want to follow.

Excellence: We want to be customers' first choice as a cloud provider.

Rock Solid: You can always count on us!

Your Team

To prepare for the company’s upcoming acceleration, a new team named “Platform & Services” is created to support our needs for transformation. This team will provide Engineering services (such as Hardware, VM, Database, LB, Queuing, Orchestrator, etc) to all product teams in order to help them focus on their true mission, i.e. bringing value to their products and to our customers.

As efficient startups use now PaaS solutions to create their products, our product teams will use our internal platform to build high-end products as well.

The Platform team is organized into “Engineering Verticals”, each vertical delivering one or more infrastructure products in a specific field of Software Engineering. This team is also responsible for securing and guaranteeing the day-to-day execution of these services and keeping them up & running.

Our team culture is all about

- Being absolute experts in each of the Engineering verticals

- Bringing amazing services & infrastructure products to our technical teams

- Sharing our best practices & knowledge

- Acting as a “true companion” for our technical teams when building new product infrastructures

- Feeling responsible for the day-to-day execution of our platform

- Working as a team - we all share the same objective of serving our customers which are, in our case, our colleagues.

About the job

Your specific team is the “Platform - Managed Services” (a.k.a. PMS) vertical, part of “Platform & Services”. Our team creates and maintains infrastructure managed services. These services are used by all the product teams to build their product in each scaleway’s region and az. We offer services from simple ones like ntp / dns / tftp to high level ones like consul / rabbitmq or loadbalancers.

Your key mission will be to create, deliver and maintain the offer of managed infrastructure services across our Regions and Availability Zones.

Your expertise in Databases will allow your team to improve its offer on this domain, and help other teams to Scale by building reliable systems.

Minimum qualifications

5+ years of experience in software engineering building or managing Databases with significant usage and volume
5+ years experience with database server tuning, query optimization, replication strategies, storage engines, monitoring, capacity planning, backup, HA, etc.
Very good command of English

Preferred qualifications

DevOps mindset (CI/CD with QA)
SRE supplier (SLO, monitoring, alerting, incident response)

Responsibilities

With the rest of the team, build and manage Databases for our product teams
Build and maintain CI automation based on Gitlab pipeline or Airflow
Contribute to the design, availability, replication, security, audit, performance and backup/recovery methodologies.
Continuously re-evaluate the infrastructure for opportunities for optimization
Advice our users (technical teams for best practice and improvement)

Technical Stack

Relational Databases : PostgreSQL, MySQL
DB Toolbox : Patroni, pgBackRest, LoadBalancing, PgBouncer
Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, …)
Git, Gitlab, CI-CD, Ansible
DCS Systems (consul, etcd)
Python or Golang

Location:

This position can be either:

Based in our offices in Paris or Lille (France), partial remote is possible.

We offer three days of remote work and two days on-site.

Recruitment Process:

- Screening Call

- Manager Interview

- Team Technical Interview

- HR Interview

#LI-Hybrid

On average our process lasts 2-3 weeks and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞

Important note: if you don't see yourself ticking all the boxes don't hesitate to apply anyway. Don't limit yourself to a job description, you never know!

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