Amo

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Paris. Posted 21 months ago

The role

You will define and lead the long-term infrastructure vision and roadmap. You will design and maintain distributed databases, automate systems, and partner with backend engineers to bring code to production.

What you will do

  • Define and lead the long-term infrastructure vision and roadmap
  • Guide a small, high-performing team of SRE engineers
  • Design and maintain distributed databases at large scale across multiple clusters
  • Test, scale, and design high throughput monitoring infrastructure
  • Automate everything from monitoring dashboards to database installations or cluster management
  • Implement automated Kubernetes Pod Autoscaler
  • Partner with software engineers and external partners
  • Code and build CI/CD pipelines

Required qualifications

  • Strong understanding of system architecture and software development
  • Proficiency in at least one low-level language
  • Strong knowledge with monitoring and alerting tools
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Knowledge of cloud platforms and infrastructure, including strong proficiency in AWS and/or GCP
  • Proven success in scaling high-traffic production environments with a focus on reliability and performance
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and influence cross-functional teams
  • Pragmatic, hands-on, and comfortable moving between strategy and execution

Nice to have

  • Rust or Go

Benefits

  • Health care (100% coverage)
  • Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave, Second Parent Leave (salary maintained at 100%)
  • 8-9 vacation days total per year
  • 5 weeks of paid time off
  • 1-2 additional weeks RTT
  • ~11 bank holidays
  • Company shutdown for two weeks in summer and one week in winter
  • Help and sponsored visa process
  • 1 month of Airbnb 100% covered upon arrival
  • Assistance from a relocation agency to find a permanent home
  • Help with French paperwork
  • French lessons

Before you apply

  • Support relocation to Paris with help and sponsored visa process

About the company

amo focuses on performance and reliability with live traffic. The company has an international team where 68% of members are international.