Senior Stateful Services Lead & Database Architect

Diabolocom; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch vouchers

Navigo reimbursements

Equipment: Mac/Linux setup

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Diabolocom is seeking a technically strong Stateful Services Lead to scale the infrastructure behind its AI-first platform. You will own the reliability and evolution of stateful services, including PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, RabbitMQ and Kafka/Redpanda, while growing a dedicated squad.

You will design, implement and operate a scalable database infrastructure, enabling maintenance and migrations with minimal downtime. This role blends hands-on work with leadership in a hybrid Paris setting.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on DBA/Database Engineer experience with PostgreSQL.
• Production experience with ClickHouse or similar complex databases.
• Experience operating databases at scale with upgrades, migrations and backups.
• Deep understanding of high availability, failover and disaster recovery for stateful systems.
• Ability to design reliable data architectures and work with development teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability and day-to-day operations of stateful services (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka/Redpanda).
• Lead design, evolution and scaling of our database infrastructure (50+ PostgreSQL instances).
• Expand clusters for safe maintenance, upgrades, migrations without disruption.
• Improve HA, replication, backup/restore and DR practices across stateful systems.
• Collaborate with SRE, networking and infra teams to ensure reliable operation.
• Mentor engineers and grow the stateful services squad.

Skills

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Redis

RabbitMQ

Kafka/Redpanda

Distributed systems

System design

Leadership

English

Tools

On-premise infrastructure

Job description

Diabolocom is seeking a technically strong Stateful Services Lead to scale the infrastructure behind its AI-first platform. You will own the reliability and evolution of stateful services, including PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, RabbitMQ and Kafka/Redpanda, while growing a dedicated squad.

You will design, implement and operate a scalable database infrastructure, enabling maintenance and migrations with minimal downtime. This role blends hands-on work with leadership in a hybrid Paris setting.