Site Reliability Engineer (Platform Reliability) friendly

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⭐ Mission: Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer to build a reliable & scalable stack for customers & Qontoers to support Qonto’s growth.

⚡ Impact: As Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in our mission to streamline and enhance our platform, enabling faster upgrades, simplifying its complexity to empower all tech department members, and contributing to our commitment to knowledge sharing through our Opensource academy, driving impactful change in our organization.

Our SRE department is divided into 4 teams (18 talented engineers): Platform Reliability, Engineering Efficiency, Observability, and Storage. You will join the Platform Reliability team led by Victor.

 

• 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

• Master observability: Work on the three pillars of observability logs, metrics & tracing

• Maintain availability: Participate in the on-call rotation & post-incident reviews with backend engineers

• Contribute to shine through tech eco-system: You will share your knowledge through communication, documentation, and talks

Cloud services: AWS, EKS

Container technology: Kubernetes, Docker

CI/CD: GitLab CI & ArgoCD

Monitoring: Prometheus with Thanos & Grafana, NewRelic, Sentry, OpsGenie

DB and messaging: AWS RDS PostgreSQL, SQS, Redis, and Kafka

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

• Learn to use problem-solving methodologies

• Spend time designing robust solutions by taking into consideration Qonto scaling needs (20 to 60k logs per second, 25k pods, 86 microservices & 1300 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

Victor, Lead SRE, will work with you every day and help you learn & grow at Qonto.

• Their Background? After graduating from EPITA as a computer engineer specializing in web technologies, he worked as lead DevOps in a french startup offering full homemade e-commerce & insurance solutions for various companies including Leclerc, Midas, Carrefour, and Total Energies & many others. After seeing dozen of different company structures & DevOps strategies, he joined Qonto in 2020 in the SRE Platform Reliability team to support Qonto growth.

• What do they bring to the team? By having a healthy and open work environment, Victor promotes continuous improvements & team ambition in order to make the platform as reliable as possible. By raising the bar of quality, each member of the team is able to promote his own ideas and develop new skills in order to match the objectives. Victor orient & supports each member while ensuring that they work in a good work atmosphere by having the time to ensure quality & work with other teams.

• 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 production experience managing Kubernetes clusters and their workloads.

• 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.

A laptop. An inclusive work environment. A tailor-made career track. And so much more to help you succeed.

- A central fully-renovated building in Berlin with WeWork services

- Monthly team events

- Tailor-made remote work policy depending on the job you apply for

- 28 days of paid leave

- Moka Care to take care of your mental health and gym access with Urban Sports Club

- A Hrmony lunch card: 100% covered

-100% public transportation reimbursement

- A progressive parenthood policy as part of our commitment to the Parental Act (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners

- Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers

- A remote exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like

We will send you an interview guide so you can best prepare yourself.

On average our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞

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