Stateful Services Engineer: Postgres, Redis & Kafka Expert

Diabolocom; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Diabolocom is building an AI-first platform and is seeking a Stateful Services Engineer to operate and evolve its stateful data stores and infrastructure. You will own database reliability, performance and scaling across PostgreSQL clusters while collaborating with SRE and engineering teams.

You will work on on-premise infrastructure with distributed systems, ensuring high availability, safe upgrades, and minimal downtime as the company grows.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience as a DBA/Database Engineer/SRE with PostgreSQL.
• Experience operating production databases: upgrades, migrations, backups, monitoring.
• Understand high availability and reliability for stateful systems: failover, replication, DR.
• Experience with on-premise infrastructure or willingness to adapt to bare-metal environments.
• Good system design skills for scalability, reliability and performance.
• Experience collaborating with software development teams to build reliable data solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills and ownership mindset.
• Fluent English; French or other languages are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain stateful services (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• Improve HA, replication, failover, backups and disaster recovery across clusters.
• Collaborate with development teams to build reliable data solutions.
• Participate in on‑call and incident management.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

SRE mindset

On‑premise infra

System design

Troubleshooting

On-call readiness

English fluency

Tools

ClickHouse

Kafka/Redpanda

RabbitMQ

Redis

Job description

Diabolocom is building an AI-first platform and is seeking a Stateful Services Engineer to operate and evolve its stateful data stores and infrastructure. You will own database reliability, performance and scaling across PostgreSQL clusters while collaborating with SRE and engineering teams.

You will work on on-premise infrastructure with distributed systems, ensuring high availability, safe upgrades, and minimal downtime as the company grows.