Site reliability engineer (flex/remote) - h/f

L'entreprise

Powered by talented and passionate people working hard on democratizing the cloud, Scaleway, the 2nd leading European infrastructure cloud provider, is a multicultural company, rapidly growing into a global brand. We are present in 160 countries, with more than 300 employees of 18 nationalities.

We are a cloud computing pioneer delivering the innovative capabilities of modern multi cloud, covering a full spectrum of services for professionals: public cloud services with Scaleway Elements, private infrastructures and colocation with Scaleway Datacenter and bare Metal infrastructures with Scaleway Dedibox.

We place people at the heart of our purpose as an enabler of the internet. Our organization encourages responsibility, autonomy, commitment and thought leadership from our collaborators. Our premises are open spaces, conducive to exchange and interaction between individuals.

We believe it is our responsibility to be a positive force in society and to collectively design new systems for a better future. We want to increase access to the digital and technology industry. As our business scales, the customers we serve are increasingly diverse and global. Giving them an unbeatable experience is central to our business strategy. To better understand our customers and partners, we need a workforce that’s as diverse as they are.
Our Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) strategy is a strategic asset for nurturing our future business growth, highly visible to our customers and partners. Scaleway has committed to take a proactive approach to develop the rich skills and competencies of all our workforce and to open up professional opportunities in creative and flexible ways, so that we can truly enjoy the rewards of working in a highly diverse, inclusive and global team, no matter the gender, religious beliefs or ethnicity.

Join a community of more than 300 passionate people and become part of a growing company rooted in the world of tomorrow.

Le poste

About the job
 
Scaleway is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our IaaS/BMaaS SRE team.
 
Reporting to our Engineering Manager Emerick Mounoury, you will be responsible to ensure we can reliably deliver virtual machines and bare metal servers to our users around the world. We expect you to have a strong background in Python development and system administration, along with some DevOps experience and SRE practice. Our systems evolve constantly and the tools we use to monitor and ensure their resilience need to evolve accordingly.

Profil recherché

  • Experience in system programming using at least one of these languages:Python, Bash, Go, etc.
  • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot production system failures
  • A positive mindset and desire to work with a team
  • Passion for automation and incremental improvements on tooling, 
  • Experience with Linux systems: Ubuntu server
  • Experience with virtualization: QEMU/KVM
  • Good understanding of computer networks: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, IPv6, firewall, BGP and network virtualization
  • Very good command of English


  • Ability to meticulously identify and solve any kind of bug in any codebase.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and continuous deployment
  • Experience dealing with physical hardware automation
  • Experience monitoring & logging systems
  • Experience managing relational databases
  • Knowledge of at least one cloud platform and related use-cases
  • Experience as an OSS contributor and/or maintainer


  • Create or optimize existing tools & documentation that will help identify, diagnose, and solve production incidents, automating as much as possible
  • Troubleshoot high-impact issues by working with multiple Engineering teams (Storage, Network, Hardware)
  • Take on-call responsibilities, mitigate issues encountered in production and answer our customers in real time
  • Ensure a high quality of service for our customers by leveraging observability and monitoring technologies
  • Manage the life cycle of hypervisors in production and take part to the fleet-wide migration plan
  • Empower your teammates to swiftly integrate and deploy software components across our virtualisation system
  • Help implementing best stability, resiliency, scalability, security, and performance practices across our virtualisation system


  • Python/Bash
  • RabbitMQ + Celery
  • PostgreSQL + SQLAlchemy
  • HA Proxy, Nginx, REST APIs / Flask
  • S3 API
  • Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Fluentd, Kibana
  • Ansible, AWX, Foreman
  • GitLab, Nexus
  • Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS
  • Jira, Confluence, Slack, GSuite


    • Location

    This position can be either: 
    Based in our offices in Paris or Lille (France), fully remote is possible 

    #LI-Remote, #LI-Hybrid 

    Salary Range

    Junior 45,000 - 53,000 EUR per year
    Senior 67,000 - 83,000 EUR per year 



    We treat every candidate equally in our recruitment process. Even if you don't meet 100% of the job’s requirements, we encourage you to apply and tell us why you would be a good fit!

    Questions about this job? Nathalie Tourbay, our Recruitment Team Lead, would be happy to answer your questions.

    Scaleway is a #singular place and we’re looking for #singular people. If you like what you see here and you’ve got a story to tell, we’d love to hear from you.


    About Scaleway

    Founded in 1999, Scaleway, the cloud of choice, helps developers and businesses to build, deploy and scale applications to any infrastructure.

    Located in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw, Scaleway’s complete cloud ecosystem is used by 25,000+ businesses, including European startups, who choose Scaleway for its multi-AZ redundancy, smooth developer experience, carbon-neutral data centers and native tools for managing multi-cloud architectures. 

    With fully managed offerings for bare metal, containerization and serverless architectures, Scaleway brings choice to the world of cloud computing, offering customers the ability to choose where their customer’s data resides, to choose what architecture works best for their business, and to choose a more responsible way to scale.

    We are committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, disability, age, or veteran status.

    Find out more about working with us on Scaleway’s Career Page.

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