
Veepee · Paris
Join a transversal SRE community embedded in a product-oriented Data Platform team of 40–50 engineers, analysts, and data scientists across France and Spain. Yo...
Join a transversal SRE community embedded in a product-oriented Data Platform team of 40–50 engineers, analysts, and data scientists across France and Spain. You'll drive the reliability and scalability of a next-generation Lakehouse platform — anchored on Trino, Iceberg, and on-prem object storage — while leading the transition from public cloud to a resilient hybrid/on-prem architecture.
🧡 ABOUT ALMA At Alma, we believe sustainable commerce depends on fair, well-balanced trade. Because finance plays a pivotal role in business, our mission is to put it back in its rightful place - serving merchants and consumers. Our installment and deferred payment solutions help merchants boost sales by 20% or more, increase customer loyalty, and deliver a seamless shopping experience - without encouraging bad debt. As the buy now pay later leader in France and active in 10 European countries, we've empowered over +25,000 merchants and 10 million consumers. With 380+ Almakers and €100M+ ARR, Alma is scaling rapidly across Europe as a member of the Next40, and we're just getting started! 👐 ABOUT THE TEAM You will join the Data Engineering team, which is moving closer to the Platform organization to strengthen collaboration with SRE and Software Engineering and improve SLA standards on the data platform. You will report to Jonathan, Engineering Manager of the SRE team, and work within a broader data community of 3 Central Data Analysts, 2 Product Data Analysts, 6 Business Analysts, and a 5-person AI team. This position is a permanent contract (CDI) based in Paris. 💼 ABOUT THE JOB Own and scale the data platform * Build, maintain, and improve our data warehouse, transformation layer, and platform architecture (including the critical link between PostgreSQL and our GCP data lake) to make our stack faster, more reliable, and more resilient. Raise engineering standards across the data stack * Drive CI/CD practices, staging environments, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), access management, and release management — bringing a platform engineering mindset to data. Ensure observability and platform reliability * Lead incident management, data quality monitoring, lineage, and documentation efforts to ensure the platform remains trustworthy and easy to operate for analysts, product teams, and AI practitioners. Shape technical decisions and enable the team * Take ownership of complex architectural decisions (including tooling audits, e.g. Datastream), * Contribute to AI data use cases (BigQuery integrations with tools like Dust, Claude Code, and Nao), * Mentor other data practitioners on engineering best practices, * Share knowledge, document decisions, and contribute to raising engineering standards across the team. 🧰 YOU WILL WORK WITH GCP, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL, Terraform, Kubernetes, Argo Workflow, Airflow, AirByte, dbt, Python, GitHub, CI/CD, Looker, Metabase 🧩 ABOUT YOU To succeed in this job * 6+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, ideally in a fast-growing tech environment, with hands-on experience building and maintaining modern data platforms and orchestration workflows * Strong command of cloud infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), Kubernetes, and Python — you're comfortable owning both the data and the platform layer * Analytical mindset with a strong capacity to challenge the status quo — you don't just build, you question whether we're building the right thing * Fluency in French and English And it will be nice if you also * Have specific experience with GCP and BigQuery at scale * Have worked with dbt for data transformation * Have experience operating in or alongside an SRE or Platform Engineering culture Don't meet every single requirement? At Alma, we believe great hires come from diverse paths. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply. We value potential, curiosity and the ability to grow as much as experience. 🧘 WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU If you join, you will be able to grow and impact on: * A pivotal moment for data at Alma — you'll join as the team transitions toward Platform, with a mandate to audit and reshape the stack, not just maintain it. * End-to-end ownership — from architectural decisions on the PostgreSQL-to-GCP pipeline to enabling AI use cases with BigQuery, this is a high-autonomy, high-visibility role. * Cross-functional leverage — your work will directly improve the productivity of a 20+ person data community and fuel better decisions across the entire company. 🤑 COMPENSATION & BENEFITS * Competitive salary based on 12 months * Profit-sharing and employee savings plan * Health insurance: 100% covered by Alma including family package * Disability insurance: 100% covered by Alma * Sport: partnerships with Gymlib and Classpass, or €30/month reimbursement for your sports activities * Maternity/paternity leave: salary maintained at 100% during leave with no seniority requirement. Return to work at 4/5 schedule paid at 100% for 8 weeks. * Sustainable Mobility Package (FMD): €544.80/year (excluding full-remote contracts) * Meal vouchers: €10/day, 50% covered by Alma * Mental health: free access to MindDay platform * Paid time off: 25 days/year (+ additional paid leave granted for employees on executive contracts) * Access to our Learning & Development Platform * 2 weeks of full remote possible per year in summer 🎯 INTERVIEW PROCESS * Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member to understand your path, motivation & present you the role. * Video call with your future manager to deep dive the role, the team, your profile and answer all your questions. * Take-home assignment followed by a case study presentation with team members to assess your practical knowledge. * Coffee chat with future cross-functional collaborators to assess team fit. 🌍 DIVERSITY & INCLUSION At Alma, we believe that diversity fuels innovation and makes our community stronger. We are committed to building a workplace where every person feels seen, respected, and empowered to do their best work whatever their gender, background, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability or lived experience. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applicants from all walks of life, and all employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
OUR STORY: 🇪🇺 Join Scaleway and shape the sovereign cloud of tomorrow ! Since 1999, we have been designing secure, sustainable infrastructures aimed at supporting the most ambitious companies. Historically known for our dedicated servers (Dedibox), we made a strategic shift to cloud computing in 2015. Staying true to our principles of simplicity, flexibility, and technical excellence, we have become one of the leading players in Europe in the sector. With the rise of artificial intelligence, we have strengthened our commitment, supported by the Iliad Group, which is investing €3 billion to develop a serious, sovereign AI alternative to American and Asian giants. Every day, thanks to our fast-growing portfolio of cloud and AI products (bare metal, containerization, serverless, AI, etc.), Scaleway proudly serves thousands of customer across the private and public sector, from corporations like France Télévisions or Hachette Livre, to fast-growing startups like Photoroom and Biolevate, to institutions like the City of Copenhagen. 📍 Our offices are located in Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Rennes, Rouen, Bordeaux and Lyon. WHY WE NEED YOU? Our growth is driving us to strengthen our Database & Data Platform team to increase our capacity to deliver new features and improve the reliability and robustness of our managed databases service. Your mission: Own and evolve both the internal and public‑facing managed‑database platform, driving scalability, security and long‑term performance while shaping the next generation of our cloud database offer. YOUR FUTURE TEAM We work in a collaborative environment where knowledge sharing and mutual support are key to driving our ambitions forward. You’ll join a tight‑knit team of six, distributed across our French sites: three developers, one DBA, one product manager, and one engineering manager. In this role you’ll write production‑grade code and build and maintain the infrastructure that runs it—from Python & Go‑based APIs to Ansible playbooks, CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks. The team owns both an internal database platform that powers other Scaleway products and the public‑facing managed‑database service. YOUR DAILY ROUTINE • Design, implement, and ship new features for the managed‑database service while continuously improving the existing codebase. • Maintain and evolve internal database platforms (new deployments, automated upgrades, performance optimizations, …). • Contribute to design reviews and propose improvements to internal architecture and tooling. • Improve the technical stack used for database management and automation. • Work with tools like Terraform, Ansible and Docker to support infrastructure and automation. • Collaborate with other developers and DBAs to guide database usage and best practices. • Diagnose and resolve incidents and bugs affecting databases • Participate in a second‑level on‑call rotation (approximately 1 week / month), stepping in when first‑level alerts need deeper investigation and ensuring rapid restoration of our managed‑database services • Resolve critical production issues, working closely with our SRE team to restore service and implement long‑term fixes. ABOUT YOU HARD SKILLS: • Strong Development experience in Python or Go • Strong Linux system administration skills and experience with Bash scripting • Solid experience in administering at least one major RDBMS in production environments (ideally PostgreSQL or MySQL) • Deep understanding of database administration mechanisms: high availability, security, access control, disaster recovery, and service continuity strategies. • Comfortable working with automation and infrastructure tools: Ansible, Docker, Git & CI/CD pipelines • Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Prometheus SOFT SKILLS: • Excellent communication and synthesis skills: ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders • Strong sense of rigor and high standards, especially when working on critical infrastructure • Proactive and autonomous, with the ability to work effectively in a distributed team • Ability to collaborate with empathy and contribute to a caring, respectful work environment • Professional written communication in English; comfort in French-speaking teams WHAT YOU WILL FIND AT SCALEWAY ++++ • Hybrid work: We offer up to 3 days of remote work per week. • Offices: Our offices are spacious, dynamic workspaces with bold design, conveniently located near public transport. Most of our offices feature outdoor spaces (terraces) and bike parking facilities. • Dining: Our chef provides a healthy meal service at the headquarters, and breakfast is available across all our sites year-round. Scalers working from regional sites enjoy a Swile card for lunches. • Well-being commitments: Whether it’s access to a gym, daycare places, or discounted services for caring services, Scaleway is committed to supporting Scalers in maintaining a balanced life. • International environment: With dozens of nationalities, Scaleway offers a stimulating environment where English is as widely spoken as French. • Career & Mobility: Our managers value internal mobility, and opportunities to transition to other entities within the Iliad Group are accessible to all Scalers. WHY JOIN THE SCALEWAY ADVENTURE ? ✔ A rich and diverse product offering: Scaleway offers over 100 public cloud products in IaaS, PaaS, and AI. ✔ A cutting-edge technical environment: Scaleway provides modern infrastructures, including high-performance bare metal servers, to tackle exciting technical challenges. ✔ Commitment to responsible cloud: Scaleway is dedicated to a more responsible cloud, with data centers powered solely by renewable energy since 2017, minimizing our ecological footprint and holding top-level certification. THE NEXT STEPS … • Discovery call with a recruiter (30 min) • Interview with Manager (30 min) • Technical interview (1h min) • Interview with Head of Tribe (30 min)
📄 JOB DESCRIPTION Being an SRE in VeepeeTech means to be a part of the transversal SRE community and at the same time integrate one of the agile product teams. You will ensure the system’s reliability and scalability by applying DevOps practices and share knowledge within the SRE community. The Distribution Channels SRE team is in charge of maintaining the infrastructure of the front services of Veepee websites and mobile applications