Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Database

DOCTOLIB SAS
Nantes, France
27 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Databases Couchbase Servers Data Stores Monitoring of Systems Python (Programming Language) PostgreSQL Operational Databases Reliability Engineering Ruby
+8 more
Google Cloud Database Optimization Reliability of Systems Deployment Automation Apache Kafka Docker Golang Programming Languages

Job description

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 engineering, design, and business teams.

Doctolib is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to keep Doctolib production database systems running smoothly. You will also be a key-player to support the exponential growth of Doctolib services.

What you will do

You will join a team of developers, DBA and SRE responsible for:

  • Improving and protecting the health of our datastores,
  • Empowering the whole tech teams to use our datastores in the most efficient way,
  • Collaborating everyday with our Database Architects, Principal Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers from other teams.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in our Doctolib Database Optimization team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our databases. You will:

Design, build and maintain core infrastructure databases that allow Doctolib scaling to support hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.

  • Automate deployment, scaling, and maintenance of databases to enhance system reliability and operational efficiency,
  • Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes to identify and address potential issues before they impact both practitioners and patients,
  • Provide documentation and tooling to empower the feature teams in their use of their databases, while ensuring their reliability,
  • Mitigate production database issues during working hours when the issue cannot be fixed by the responsible feature team,
  • Research and evaluate new technologies, tools, and best practices to continuously improve the reliability and availability of our systems and processes.

Requirements

  • Have a strong hands-on experience (6y+) on a production platform, if possible at scale,
  • Have proven experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud,
  • Have proven experience with datastores such as PostgreSQL and/or Kafka and/or Couchbase,
  • Have solid understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker and Kubernetes),
  • Have proficiency in at least one programming language (Ruby, Python, Go, Java, etc.) and understanding of infrastructure as code principles,
  • Are fluent in English.

Now, it would be fantastic if you:

  • Have an experience with monitoring and observability tools,
  • Like troubleshooting performance issues in complex environments.

Benefits & conditions

  • Free Health Insurance for you
  • Up to 14 days of RTT
  • A flexible workplace policy offering both hybrid and office-based modes
  • Flexibility days allowing to work in EU countries and the UK 10 days per year
  • Wellbeing program with free mental health and coaching through moka.care
  • Special support package for caregivers and workers with disabilities
  • Lunch voucher with Swile card
  • Work Council subsidy for sport club membership or creative activities
  • Bicycle subsidy
  • Public transportation reimbursement
  • Relocation support for international mobility

The interview process

  • Recruiter Interview
  • SRE Technical interview
  • System Design Interview
  • Behavioral interview
  • Reference Check
  • Offer!

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