Site Reliability Engineer

About us

The product is a mobile app plus a React web dashboard, with a Python and PostgreSQL backend on AWS. Clients range from single-location retailers to franchise groups with hundreds of stores, all running our point-of-sale and loyalty software. Founded in 1993, we now have 90 employees.

The role

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Site Reliability Engineer. SRE role with a heavy software component. We expect you to write code that removes toil, not just run playbooks. You can work from home anywhere in France. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do

• Review architecture proposals for reliability risks before launch
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments
• Define SLIs and SLOs with service owners and track error budgets
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling

About you

• 3+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and load balancing
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider
• Clear writing for postmortems and runbooks
• Deep Linux knowledge, including systemd, networking and tools like strace and tcpdump

Bonus points

• OpenTelemetry instrumentation
• CKA or CKS certification
• Multi-region or active-active architecture

What you get

• Health insurance (mutuelle) covered at 60%
• Two days of remote work per week
• Profit-sharing
• Training budget

Candidates must be eligible to work in France.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Blanchard Cloud.