Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Observability

Doctolib
Berlin, Germany
3 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) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Computer Vision Microsoft Azure Elasticsearch Monitoring of Systems Mobile Application Software Python (Programming Language) Open Source Technology Performance Tuning Reliability Engineering
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Logstash Prometheus Ruby TypeScript Datadog Data Logging Google Cloud Swift (Programming Language) Kotlin Kubernetes React Native Docker Golang Programming Languages

Job description

Your mission will be to shape Doctolib’s observability strategy and ensure our platform remains reliable, debuggable, and scalable at a European scale. You will work in a feature team developing logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting capabilities, contributing directly to supporting 400,000 health professionals and 80 million patients in their daily healthcare journey.

Working in the tech team at Doctolib means building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients., * Lead the observability strategy across the platform, with an emphasis on building scalable, developer-friendly logging and tracing capabilities

  • Identify and lead large-scale cross-cutting reliability initiatives, including improvements to our incident detection, response, and postmortem analysis capabilities
  • Take part in the on-call rotation, and actively contribute to improving our on-call experience by refining alerting, reducing noise, and ensuring actionable telemetry, * Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to country and healthcare specialty requirements.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • Have a solid hands-on experience (3y+) on a large-scale production platform
  • Have proven experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
  • Have solid understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker and Kubernetes)
  • Have a strong understanding of Helm for managing Kubernetes manifests and ArgoCD for GitOps workflows
  • Have deep expertise in observability tooling and architecture, such as:
  • Logging: Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Vector
  • Tracing: OpenTelemetry or proprietary APMs
  • Metrics: Prometheus, Thanos, Datadog, or equivalent
  • Have proficiency in at least one programming language (Ruby, Python, Go, Java, etc.) and a deep understanding of infrastructure as code principles
  • Have experience with monitoring and observability tools
  • Like troubleshooting performance issues in complex environments
  • Are fluent in English

It would be fantastic if you:

  • Have experience contributing to open-source observability projects
  • Have worked in a high-growth tech environment
  • Are passionate about developer experience and platform engineering

Benefits & conditions

  • A Deutschlandticket (Germany-wide public transport pass) fully paid for by Doctolib
  • 28 vacation days + 1 additional day for each full calendar year of employment (up to a maximum of 30 days)
  • Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to our flexibility days policy
  • Company health insurance with great supplementary benefits through our partner Allianz
  • Company pension scheme (bAV) through Allianz with an employer subsidy of 40% (15% within the probationary period)
  • ParentCare Program: Enjoy full salary coverage (100%) during your first month of birth leave, and 75% during the second, covered by Doctolib
  • Enrollment in Doctolib’s long-term employee value sharing plan called DoctoGrowth
  • Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
  • Subsidized sports membership through our partner Urban Sports Club
  • A flexible workplace policy offering both hybrid and office-based mode
  • Alongside healthy snacks and our regular breakfast buffet, we provide a subsidized meal benefit
  • For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
  • Relocation support in case of international mobility
  • Access to the best AI tools for coding, development and dedicated training

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