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We are looking for a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join the Doctolib Database Optimization team in the Platform team. As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, your mission will be to work on ensuring the reliability and performance of our datastores while fostering a platform mindset in our transition to the "you build it, you run it" paradigm. You will be working in a multidisciplinary team made of both Site Reliability Engineers and Software Engineers, which enables us to have a complete view of the problems we need to solve and of the alternative solutions we might implement to solve them. Working in the tech team at Doctolib involves building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients. We work in feature teams in an agile environment, while collaborating with product, design, and business teams.
Job Responsibility:
Reliability Engineering: Ensure high availability of our datastores and our own operational efficiency through observability, automation, tooling, backup strategies, disaster recovery planning and process improvement
Database maintenance: Handle database infrastructure maintenance including upgrades, performance optimization, cost optimization and capacity planning
Database-as-a-service: Empower feature teams with database tooling, guidelines, training and support to manage and use their databases efficiently
Incident mitigation: Participate in incident response for datastore-related issues in production during business hours, when the issue cannot be fixed by the responsible feature team
Datastore expertise sharing: Stay up-to-date with datastore technology evolution and share knowledge with the team on new features, best practices, and industry trends
Requirements:
7+ years of experience as a Database Reliability Engineer, or SRE with strong database expertise, or DBA with strong inclination towards site reliability practices
Strong expertise in at least one of our core datastores (PostgreSQL, Couchbase or OpenSearch) or an equivalent technology, in a high-load and high-availability environment
Hands-on experience with Kafka or an equivalent technology
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud environments (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud) in a production environment
Fluent in English
Nice to have:
Excellent communication and mentoring skills and embrace the "you build it, you run it" philosophy
Experience with multiple kinds of datastores and have curiosity and willingness to learn new datastores and adapt to evolving technology landscapes
Involved in architecture choices for high traffic web applications, particularly scalability challenges on large databases, and building self-service services through Database as a Product approaches
What we offer:
Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children
Parent Care Program: receive one additional month of leave on top of the legal parental leave
Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
Work from EU countries and the UK for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy
Work Council subsidy to refund part of sport club membership or creative class
Up to 14 days of RTT
A subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class