Lead SRE - BeReal

VOODOO SAS
Paris, France
about 2 months ago

Role details

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

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Continuous Integration Data Stores Software Debugging Distributed Systems Github PostgreSQL Redis Reliability Engineering Site Reliability Engineering Practices Service Discovery
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Datadog Data Logging Kubernetes Information Technology Terraform Dynatrace Golang

Job description

The Infrastructure team provides the backbone that powers the company’s growth, ensuring the scalability, efficiency, and reliability of our platform. We design and operate our infrastructure on GCP. Working hand in hand with developers, we enable teams to ship fast and efficiently while maintaining a strong focus on costs and performance. Our mission is to create a developer-friendly, cost-effective, and highly automated infrastructure that supports innovation at scale., * Define and drive SRE practices across the organization, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, postmortem processes, and long-term reliability improvements across the platform

  • Design, implement, and optimize infrastructure for availability, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
  • Own and evolve our observability stack, improving monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing
  • Drive automation of infrastructure and operational workflows (e.g., Terraform, Terragrunt, Kubernetes)
  • Lead FinOps initiatives, developing tools and insights to optimize cloud costs
  • Partner closely with development squads to improve service reliability, performance, and operational excellence
  • Influence architectural decisions and establish best practices for building resilient distributed systems
  • Mentor and support Infrastructure engineers, helping raise the bar on reliability, operational excellence, and technical execution
  • Analyze performance bottlenecks and work on solutions such as scaling strategies, service optimizations, and system debugging, * Operator: Kubernetes
  • CI/CD: Argocd, Github actions
  • Cloud provider: GCP
  • Monitoring: Datadog
  • Infra as code: Terraform / Terragrunt
  • Languages: golang / node
  • Datastores: Spanner / PostgreSQL / Redis

Requirements

Do you have experience in Terraform?, * Strong knowledge of Kubernetes

  • Experience with high traffic, distributed systems architectures, and related tools (service discovery, config/secret management, etc.)
  • Strong knowledge of one Cloud provider (AWS or GCP preferred)
  • Proven experience defining and operating SRE practices (SLOs, incident management, observability, reliability engineering)
  • Strong operational mindset with experience managing production incidents and driving reliability improvements
  • Leadership and mentoring experience, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams
  • Ownership-driven - If something isn’t working, you don’t wait for instructions; you improve it
  • Pragmatic and impact-oriented - You balance reliability, delivery speed, and business priorities
  • Performance vs cost-conscious - You make decisions that align with both technical excellence and financial sustainability

Benefits & conditions

  • Competitive salary based on experience
  • Swile Lunch voucher
  • Gymlib (100% covered by Voodoo)
  • Premium healthcare coverage with SideCare, 100% covered for you and your family
  • Wellness activities in our Paris office

About the company

At BeReal, we are dedicated to authenticity in social media. By encouraging users to share unfiltered moments, we foster genuine connections and celebrate real life. We are now an international team of 100+ and have 40M+ monthly active users. Backed by Voodoo, our team is fully focused on scaling BeReal into an iconic social network used by hundreds of millions.

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