Senior platform engineer

Qonto; Paris; Sur place; EUR 50 000 - 75 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading finance workspace company in Paris is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to enhance their platform and streamline processes. The role involves working with large-scale infrastructures and collaborating with multiple teams. Ideal candidates will have infrastructure management experience, particularly with Kubernetes, and strong programming skills. Competitive compensation and a dynamic career track are offered.

Prestations

Competitive salary package

Meal vouchers

Public transportation reimbursement

Great health insurance

Employee well-being initiatives

Childcare benefits

Monthly team events

Qualifications

• Experience developing high-quality tools to reduce toil.
• Solid knowledge of microservice infrastructure.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn.

Responsabilités

• Work on large-scale infrastructure with log ingestion.
• Build robust solutions collaboratively with teams.
• Participate in on-call rotation and reviews.

Connaissances

Experience with infrastructure tools

Production experience managing Kubernetes clusters

Fluent in English

Proficient in programming

Outils

Kubernetes

Go

Terraform

Description du poste

Overview

Our mission Creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed in business and beyond, by delivering Europe’s leading finance workspace. We combine business-class tools (seamless invoicing, spend management, and pre-accounting) with attentive 24/7 support to help businesses breeze through finance.

Our journey Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 600,000 customers. Our team of 1,600+ Qontoers contributed to being named in the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking.

Our values

• Customer focus: Prioritize customers in everything you do.
• Ownership: Own your part, get things done.
• Teamwork: Make (team)work easy.
• Mastery: Continuously raise the bar.
• Integrity: Always do what’s right, and respect people.

Our beliefs: At Qonto, we foster a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive. We evaluate applicants based on skills and potential, with diversity in mind. We strive for an international team and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.

Mission: Join us as a Senior Platform Engineer to build a reliable and scalable stack for customers and Qontoers to support growth.

Impact: As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will streamline and enhance our platform, enabling faster upgrades and reducing complexity to empower all tech teams.

Our SRE department is divided into two teams (15 engineers): Platform Reliability and Storage. You will join the Platform Reliability team.

Role: Senior Platform Engineer at Qonto

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Qonto, you will

• Work on large-scale infrastructure: up to 30k logs/sec ingestion, up to 15TB of cumulated memory in prod, 300 deployments per day.
• Build robust solutions: collaborate with backend, frontend & security engineers to design, deploy & maintain our microservice infrastructure.
• Improve velocity: reduce toil through automation and pragmatism.
• Maintain availability: participate in on-call rotation and post-incident reviews with backend engineers.
• Contribute to shine through the tech ecosystem: share knowledge via documentation, talks, and communication.

What stack you can expect

• Cloud provider: AWS and some GCP.
• Container technologies: Kubernetes (EKS & GKE), ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Karpenter.
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions.
• Monitoring: Prometheus & Thanos, traces with OpenTelemetry, on-call with OpsGenie, and logs with Elasticsearch & Loki.
• DB and messaging: AWS RDS PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, SQS, Redis, and Kafka.
• Programming language: Go.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform.

What you can expect

• Develop microservices to reduce toil.
• Design robust solutions with scaling needs in mind.
• Autonomy in proposing solutions in a bottom-up approach using the Qonto way (lean methodologies).
• Work on modern stacks through GitOps and challenge the technical status quo.
• Collaborate with other teams on tech challenges, reviews, and problem-solving sessions.
• Reducing cost by pragmatic approaches and long-term thinking to lower cost per customer.

About your future manager

Your manager will be Victor. His leadership style emphasizes autonomy, trust, and encouraging experimentation, learning, and growth. He promotes strong team spirit and clear alignment with our objectives and value delivery.

About You

• Experience: Experience with infrastructure tools and developing high-quality tools to reduce toil; production experience managing Kubernetes clusters and workloads.
• Programming: Proficiency in at least one programming language and a passion for building efficient, scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Problem solver: Pragmatic, solution-oriented, and willing to embrace failure to improve quality.
• Impact maker: Desire to build a product used by thousands of companies while maintaining reliability.
• Curiosity: Curious and open-minded with a willingness to learn.
• Team player: Good communication and collaboration within a team.
• Continuous improvement mindset: Always seeking ways to enhance processes, systems, and products.
• Languages: Fluent in English. French is a plus.

Note: We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. Apply regardless of background or boxes checked.

Perks

• A tailor-made and dynamic career track. An inclusive work environment. And more to help you succeed.
• Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade.
• Competitive salary package.
• Meal vouchers.
• Public transportation reimbursement (part or global).
• Great health insurance (depending on country).
• Employee well-being initiatives: access to Moka Care for mental health and wellness offers.
• Disability and Parenthood policy with childcare benefits.
• Monthly team events.

Our hiring process

• Interviews with Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers.
• A remote or live exercise to demonstrate skills and give you a taste of working at Qonto.
• Find more information on our careers website.
• On average, our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours.

Learn more

To learn more about us: Qonto’s Blog | Les Échos | L’Usine Digitale | Courrier Cadres. For data privacy during your application, please review the process details on the careers site.