Senior SRE - BeReal

BeReal; Paris; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Swile Lunch voucher

Gymlib (100% covered by Voodoo)

Premium healthcare coverage with SideC

Wellness activities in our Parisoffice

Job summary

BeReal is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to strengthen reliability and scalability of its global platform. You will work on Kubernetes-driven infrastructure, implement SRE practices, and collaborate with development squads to ship reliable, cost-efficient services.

The role emphasizes ownership, pragmatic decisions balancing performance and cost, and active contribution to observability, incident management, and architectural best practices.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and distributed systems.
• Experience applying SRE practices (SLOs, incident management, observability).
• Proven ownership mindset and ability to drive reliability improvements.
• Comfortable collaborating with engineers and making technical decisions.
• Balance reliability with delivery speed and business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Apply and maintain SRE practices across scope: SLIs, SLOs, incident management, postmortems.
• Design, implement, and optimize infra for availability, scalability, reliability and cost efficiency.
• Contribute to observability stack: monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing.
• Automate infra and workflows (Terraform, Terragrunt, Kubernetes).
• Support FinOps efforts to optimize cloud costs.
• Partner with development squads to improve service reliability and performance.
• Share knowledge to raise reliability standards across teams.
• Analyze performance bottlenecks and implement scaling and optimization strategies.

Skills

Kubernetes

SRE practices

High-traffic systems

Ownership-driven

Observability

Performance vs cost

Reliability mindset

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Datadog

ArgoCD

Github Actions

GCP

AWS

Job description

About BeReal

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.

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.

Role

• Apply and help maintain SRE practices across your scope, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and postmortem processes

• Design, implement, and optimize infrastructure for availability, scalability, reliability and cost efficiency

• Contribute to our observability stack, improving monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing

• Automate infrastructure and operational workflows (e.g., Terraform, Terragrunt, Kubernetes)

• Support FinOps initiatives, helping build tools and insights to optimize cloud costs

• Partner closely with development squads to improve service reliability, performance, and operational excellence

• Contribute to architectural decisions and help apply best practices for building resilient distributed systems

• Share knowledge with other Infrastructure engineers, helping raise the bar on reliability and operational excellence

• Analyze performance bottlenecks and work on solutions such as scaling strategies, service optimizations, and system debugging

Profile

• 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)

• Solid experience applying SRE practices (SLOs, incident management, observability, reliability engineering)

• Strong operational mindset with experience managing production incidents and driving reliability improvements

• Comfortable collaborating with and supporting other engineers, with the ability to weigh in on technical decisions

• 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

Our Stack

• Operator: Kubernetes

• CI/CD: Argocd, Github actions

• Cloud provider: GCP

• Monitoring: Datadog

• Infra as code: Terraform / Terragrunt

• Languages: golang / node

• Datastores: Spanner / PostgreSQL / Redis

Benefits

• 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