Site Reliability Engineer - SRE Paris

About the job

Scaleway is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our teams. Reporting to a Lead SRE, you will be responsible to ensure we can reliably serve our products for users around the world. We expect you to have a strong background in development and system administration. Our systems evolve constantly and the tools needed to observe and act to ensure their resilience need to evolve accordingly.

• Previous experience as a developer in Go, Python or Rust


• Experience in system programming with usual scripting languages (bash, Python)


• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot production systems failures


• A great attitude and desire to work with a team


• Passion for incremental improvements on tooling, love all things of automation


• Experience with Linux systems (Ubuntu/Debian)


• Experience with cloud environments architecture (baremetal, virtual machines, containers, orchestrators)


• Good understanding of computer networks: TCP/IP, DNS, load-balancing, IPv6, BGP and network virtualisation


• Understanding of written and spoken English, capable of writing technical documentation in English, ability to speak English if needed

• Experience with infrastructure as code and continuous deployment


• Experience dealing with physical hardware automation


• Experience with monitoring & logging systems


• Experience administering relational databases


• Knowledge of one cloud platform and related use-cases


• Take initiatives to propose new solutions and defend them


• Team player, willing to share knowledge, opinions, and participate in regular team rituals


• Good communication skills and coaching skills

• Create or optimize existing tools & documentation that will help identify, diagnose and remediate production incidents, automating as much as possible


• Troubleshoot high-impact issues working with multiple engineering teams


• Take on-call responsibilities, mitigate issues encountered in production and secure the best real-time answer to our customers


• Ensure a high quality of service for our customers by leveraging observability and monitoring technologies


• Manage lifecycle of products in production


• Help implementing best practices in stability, resiliency, scalability, security and performance across our systems

• Python, Go, Rust


• RabbitMQ


• PostgreSQL


• HA Proxy, Nginx, REST APIs / Flask


• S3 API


• Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Fluentd, Kibana


• Ansible, AWX, Foreman, Salt


• GitLab, Nexus


• Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS


• Jira, Confluence, Slack, GSuite

Location: This position is based in our offices in Paris, Toulouse or Lille (France).