Distinguished Engineer — Platform Transformation Lead

Brevo; Paris; Sur place; EUR 180 000 - 230 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Brevo in Paris is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead cross-cutting technical transformations across Product Engineering, Platform, Infrastructure and Data. You will own end-to-end initiatives—from architecture and migration to deployment strategy—driving standards and platform evolution at scale.

You bring deep experience in Kubernetes, CI/CD, Kafka, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, distributed databases, and large-scale observability, with a track record of guiding large teams through complex

Qualifications

• You have already operated at Principal, Distinguished, Senior Principal, Fellow, or equivalent level within a significantly larger engineering organization.
• You have repeatedly led transformations involving hundreds of engineers or large service fleets, distributed systems and production infrastructure, complex migrations where old and new worlds had to coexist, strong technical disagreement across senior teams, and architecture decisions with broad and lasting consequences.
• You move fluidly between a system design discussion, a code review, a production incident, a migration plan, and an executive-level technical decision.
• You bring deep expertise in several of the following: Kubernetes, CI/CD, Kafka, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, distributed databases, service communication, developer platforms, and large-scale observability.

Responsabilités

• Own a small number of high-impact technical transformations end to end: architecture, implementation strategy, migration, adoption and retirement of legacy systems.
• Examples include: rebuilding our CI/CD and deployment architecture across hundreds of services and repositories;
• replacing fragmented logging and observability patterns with an OpenTelemetry-based platform backed by ClickHouse;
• redesigning how we use Kafka and introducing stronger platform abstractions around messaging;
• turning ClickHouse into a first-class internal product rather than a database consumed inconsistently across teams;
• defining and driving common standards around service communication, reliability, runtime architecture and developer platforms.

Connaissances

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Kafka

ClickHouse

OpenTelemetry

distributed databases

service communication

developer platforms

large-scale observability

Description du poste

Brevo in Paris is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead cross-cutting technical transformations across Product Engineering, Platform, Infrastructure and Data. You will own end-to-end initiatives—from architecture and migration to deployment strategy—driving standards and platform evolution at scale.

You bring deep experience in Kubernetes, CI/CD, Kafka, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, distributed databases, and large-scale observability, with a track record of guiding large teams through complex