Junior SRE

Pigment; Paris; On-site; EUR 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI platform company based in Paris is seeking a Junior DevOps/SRE to design and implement robust infrastructure solutions. You will tackle performance challenges, ensure high availability, and contribute to software development activities. Ideal candidates have strong engineering skills, experience in software development, and proficiency with Kubernetes and cloud services like GCP. Join a dynamic team dedicated to innovation and agility in business planning.

Qualifications

• Experience as a software engineer & DevOps / SRE.
• Experience with container orchestration platforms, Kubernetes is a plus.
• Proven experience in software development with languages like C#, Java, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement infrastructure to meet performance challenges.
• Secure high availability and redundancy of the platform.
• Monitor platform performance and spread observability practices.

Skills

Kubernetes

C#

Golang

DevOps

Problem-solving

Fluency in English

Tools

Terraform

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Temporal.io

Datadog

Job description

Join Pigment: The AI Platform Redefining Business Planning

Pigment is the AI-powered business planning and performance management platform built for agility and scale. We connect people, data, and processes in one intuitive, feature-rich solution, empowering every team—from Finance to HR—to build, adapt, and align strategic plans in real time.

Founded in 2019, Pigment is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies globally. Industry leaders like Unilever, Snowflake, Siemens, and DPD use Pigment daily to make more informed decisions and confidently navigate any scenario.

With a team of 500+ across Paris, London, New York, San Francisco, and Toronto, we've raised nearly $400M from top-tier investors and were named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software.

At Pigment, we take smart risks, celebrate bold ideas, and challenge the status quo—all while working as one team. If you're driven by innovation and ready to make an impact at scale, we’d love to hear from you.

The opportunity

We are looking for a Junior DevOps/SRE profile who will design and implement the Pigment infrastructure for tomorrow. Pigment is a technically challenging platform. It calculates and synchronizes large datasets that must be updated in real-time. Data comes from client models that can be up to billions of rows. This data can be pivoted, transformed, and aggregated on-demand through our formula engine while rendering live on our front end.

In addition to SRE responsibilities, we expect you to contribute to software development activities. We believe SRE engineers should collaborate closely with software engineers, fostering a shared understanding of day‑to‑day challenges, rather than operating in separate teams.

Challenges to be tackled as an SRE

• Define and build the infrastructure needed to answer our performance challenges, automate it, and make it scalable. In particular, ensure that the infrastructure scales in and out according to the platform usage.
• Secure high availability and redundancy of the Pigment platform.
• Ensure that the platform’s performance and correctness are monitored accordingly, spreading observability best practices across the engineering team.
• Participate in incident response.
• Accompany Pigment geographical expansion as the company grows and we sign clients overseas.
• Work with our security team on the implementation of their roadmap when related to infrastructure and development pipelines (code repository, credentials management, …)
• Continuously chase inefficiencies within our development practices and pipelines. Seek improvement and automation wherever possible. Drive change across the software engineering team.

Last but not least, you will not be alone! You will be part of an SRE team.

Our Engineering team

Our Engineering team is responsible for developing our SaaS platform and building a comprehensive and user-friendly product.

Pigment engineers participate in the entire application development lifecycle, focusing on design, coding, and keeping the production platform up and running. They can be specialized, but there is no strict separation between the infrastructure, backend, and the frontend.

We value user‑centricity and pragmatism: we choose the most relevant tools for the problem we have to solve, understanding the strengths and constraints of each technology.

Our engineering also values curiosity, humility, trust, ownership and team spirit.

Technical stack

• Kubernetes (GKE, hosted on Google Cloud Platform): hosting all our infrastructure components except some PostgreSQL hosts, hosted on Google Cloud SQL
• Terraform: all our infrastructure is managed via this infrastructure as code (creation of GKE clusters, Google Cloud SQL databases, GCS buckets, IAM permissions…)
• Databases: PostgreSQL (CloudSQL and CloudNativePG), SingleStore, ElasticSearch
• RabbitMQ: queuing system
• Temporal.io: workflow automation platform
• Others: ArgoCD, Istio, Vault, Github, Docker (for local development)
• Backend: Microservices written in C# ASP.NET Core 10 (running exclusively on Linux) & Golang
• Frontend: React + Typescript, Jest, Cypress, Vite…

Who you are

More than knowledge of a specific cloud provider, language, or automation framework, we are looking for great engineering skills: the ability to translate product requirements into an elegant and simple architecture, and then make sure our product runs well on it.

We are also looking for engineers who understand the product and the customer's needs in detail and can suggest innovative ideas: in the end, it's all about delivering value to end-users.

In any case, you have:

• Experience as a software engineer & DevOps / SRE
• Experience with a container orchestration platform (Kubernetes is a plus)
• Experience with a public cloud provider, GCP is a plus
• Proven experience in software developments with languages such as C#, Java, C++, Golang, Rust, JavaScript, Python, or Ruby (this list is not exhaustive).
• Experience with observability tools (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger…)
• Great team spirit with a problem‑solving attitude.
• A good dose of humility and the willingness to grow (no matter your seniority!).
• Fluency in English