Senior SRE DevOps Engineer HF

Prose; Paris; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 75 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading custom beauty company in Paris is seeking a Senior SRE – DevOps Engineer to build and optimize their infrastructure. This role focuses on ensuring operational excellence and mentoring a small team. Ideal candidates will have strong GCP expertise, experience in maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and a collaborative spirit. The position offers competitive compensation, including a base salary of €70-75K and bonuses.

Prestations

100% health insurance coverage

€80/month for sports and cultural activities

Swile meal vouchers

Transport allowance

Personalized Prose products worth €150 per year

Qualifications

• Strong expertise of GCP (or AWS) cloud architecture.
• Proficiency in Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline creation and management.

Responsabilités

• Implement and maintain observability through metrics and alerts.
• Manage multi-environment clusters and infrastructure as code.
• Ensure cost-efficient scalability and secure networking.

Connaissances

Operational excellence

Technical leadership

Collaboration

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Outils

GCP

Terraform

GitLab

Datadog

Description du poste

Our Mission

Prose is truly custom hair and skin care made‑to‑order just for you. Our line of custom products are made by an in‑house Paris‑based R&D team of gifted chemists who combine natural ingredients in innovative ways alongside dermatologists, giving consumers clean skin care, hair care and impeccable results.

At the heart of Prose’s success is Singular, its proprietary AI‑powered beauty‑tech platform, which has revolutionized personalized beauty at scale. Marrying a technology‑driven approach with an apothecary‑style concept, all Prose hair and skin care products are personalized to your one‑of‑a‑kind hair, skin goals and environment.

We are a company that wants to change beauty practices. As a certified B Corporation, a Public Benefit Corporation and Climate Neutral, we prove that good business is always sustainable. With Prose, there is nothing sacrificed to bring you great products—no trees, materials, wages or performance are compromised.

Prose & Singular in Numbers

• Founded in 2017 with hubs in Paris, New York and Los Angeles


• 10 M consultations completed


• 2 M customers and 350 K active subscribers


• 21 M custom products made with 1 M unique formulas


• 350 team members across disciplines


• $600 M in lifetime sales with $165 M revenue in 2024


• Profitable since 2024

Position Summary

Prose is seeking a Senior SRE – DevOps Engineer to build, maintain and optimise our infrastructure and platform. In this role, you will maintain operational excellence, reduce technical debt and optimise our systems. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the stability, scalability and security of our platform while mentoring and managing a team of engineers.

This role is an opportunity to lead and inspire a team while driving the success of Prose’s infrastructure and development practices. If you are passionate about technical leadership, operational excellence and reducing technical debt, we would love to hear from you.

You will join a small collaborative team (3 people) responsible for developer experience, platform management, best practices and FinOps. Together we’ll focus on optimizing infrastructure costs, improving CI / CD, strengthening monitoring and alerting, and partnering closely with engineering and data teams to ensure seamless platform operations.

We’re looking for someone who is

• Curious and eager to stay up to date with new technologies


• Open to discussion, collaboration and constructive challenges


• A clear communicator who can explain complex topics simply across teams


• Analytical and able to identify, summarise and prioritise key issues


• Proactive and solution‑oriented

Key Responsibilities

• Core responsibilities: implement and maintain observability (metrics, logs, traces, alerts)


• Manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, ArgoCD) and multi‑environment clusters securely


• Ensure cost‑efficient scalability, disaster recovery and secure networking


• Maintain GitOps/CD pipelines reusable Helm/Kustomize templates and artifact security


• Improve build efficiency and create self‑service tools and golden paths for safe deployments


• Oversee projects, IAM, budgets, GKE clusters and cloud service integrations


• Manage network security, connectivity and cost tracking


• Standardise alerts, playbooks and post‑mortems


• Optimise logging/monitoring and lead post‑incident reviews


• Define infra governance (RFCs/ADRs) and document patterns


• Mentor developers on cloud‑native design, scalability and reliability

Technical environment

• Cloud provider(s): GCP


• Infrastructure‑as‑Code: Terraform / Opentofu, Helm


• Programming: Bash, Python, Go


• CI/CD: GitlabCI, ArgoCD (Spacelift / Terrateam / Terramate)


• Observability: Datadog, Sentry, Grafana, Prometheus


• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch


• VCS: Gitlab (self‑hosted), Github


• Miscellaneous: Rundeck, Argo Events, Argo rollouts, Cypress, Cloud Serverless

Key Candidate Requirements

• Strong expertise of GCP (or AWS) cloud architecture, Terraform, Helm and ArgoCD


• Demonstrated ability to address and reduce technical debt while maintaining operational excellence and incident management


• Experience creating, maintaining and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and administering self‑hosted GitLab installations


• Datadog administration (LGTM or similar is also accepted)


• Good knowledge of observability (monitoring, alerting, logs, traces, SLO/SLA) and programming (code review, pair programming, design patterns, architecture)


• Good communication skills in both French and English and ability to write clear technical documentation

Hiring Process

Timeline: From first contact to final decision – 3 weeks

1. HR Interview – 45 min (video call or on‑site). A first conversation with our People Team to get to know you.


2. Technical & Team Interview – 1 hr (on‑site). Meet Arthur (VP Engineering) and Bastien (Sr DevOps) in person. They’ll introduce you to the tech team, our projects and how we work day to day.


3. Live Technical Assessment – 2 hrs (on‑site). Led by Bastien (Sr DevOps) and Ivica (VP Technology). You’ll receive 34 diagrams of our stack in advance to prepare and walk through a live practical exercise simulating a real‑world scenario from our environment.


4. Final Interview – 45 min (Zoom or on‑site). Meet Nicolas (CTO) for the final conversation.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation

• Competitive base salary – 70‑75 K based on experience


• Variable bonus up to 10 % based on company and individual performance


• BSPCE program

Health & Wellness

• 100 % coverage of health insurance and life/disability plan (including dependents)


• Access to sports and cultural activities with an €80/month allowance

Lifestyle & Perks

• Standard French benefits: Swile meal vouchers, transport allowance and Syntec vacation bonus


• 150 € worth of personalised Prose products each year


• 80 Friends & Family credit to share Prose with your loved ones

Understand & Embody our Prose Values

Intentional Inclusivity

We know the best ideas come from open minds and a willingness to listen. While our products cater to the individual, an invitation into our process is always open to our community.

We value our differences and diverse backgrounds by communicating openly, managing with transparency and striving to understand one another’s perspective. It’s a key ingredient to our innovation.

Connected Collaboration

Our strength as a group will outlast our efforts as individual contributors. With offices across countries (and across boroughs) staying inventive and agile deepens our clear vision and consistent communication.

We stay in a spirit of entrepreneurial collaboration: We do not have consensus at all times but we trust one another to work toward our common goals. Our success is an expression and result of our progressive and gratifying teamwork.

Driven Together

We value ownership and coaching that encourages employees to think constructively and creatively about the business. We view employees as leaders and individuals who are accountable, resourceful and responsible. Anyone and everyone is encouraged to lead.

Humanity Always

We assume good intentions in every interaction, keeping ourselves accountable for the climate we create. We seek to understand our co‑workers through this lens of authenticity and fellowship.

We operate with the intention of preserving resources, creating an environment we can all live in for our business and the world. Sustainable care is essential to our ethos as an organization. We take a mindful approach to how we think about our people (employees) and our planet.