Stateful Services Lead — DB & Infra Architect

Diabolocom; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch vouchers

Navigo: 50% monthly pass reimbursement

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Diabolocom is building an AI-first communications platform and is seeking a Stateful Services Lead in Paris. You will own the reliability and evolution of stateful services, including PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, RabbitMQ and Kafka/Redpanda, guiding a growing team and hands-on engineering work.

You will work with on-premise infrastructure, contribute to architecture decisions and drive high-availability and disaster recovery across the data workloads as the company scales.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on DBA with PostgreSQL expertise.
• Production experience with ClickHouse or similar.
• Experience operating databases at scale including upgrades and backups.
• Understanding high availability, failover and DR for stateful systems.
• Experience with on-premise infrastructure and bare-metal environments.
• Strong system design skills for scalable, reliable architectures.
• Experience collaborating with software development teams on data solutions.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading teams.
• Fluent in English; French a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability and day-to-day operations of stateful services.
• Scale database infrastructure with 50+ PostgreSQL instances.
• Enable maintenance, upgrades and migrations without downtime.
• Improve backups, recovery and DR practices.
• Collaborate with development, SRE and infra teams.
• Solve performance and scalability issues across databases.
• Establish processes and practices for running stateful services at scale.
• Stay hands-on and deeply technical.

Skills

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

HA & replication

Distributed systems

On-prem infra

System design

Team leadership

English fluency

Tools

Kafka/Redpanda

RabbitMQ

Redis

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

MySQL

MongoDB

Job description

Diabolocom is building an AI-first communications platform and is seeking a Stateful Services Lead in Paris. You will own the reliability and evolution of stateful services, including PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, RabbitMQ and Kafka/Redpanda, guiding a growing team and hands-on engineering work.

You will work with on-premise infrastructure, contribute to architecture decisions and drive high-availability and disaster recovery across the data workloads as the company scales.