Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Database x f m

Join a team of passionate and hardworking entrepreneurs to transform healthcare!

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 engineering, design, and business teams.

Doctolib is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to keep Doctolib production database systems running smoothly. You will also be a key-player to support the exponential growth of Doctolib services.

What you will do

You will join a team of developers, DBA and SRE responsible for:

• Improving and protecting the health of our datastores,
• Empowering the whole tech teams to use our datastores in the most efficient way,
• Collaborating everyday with our Database Architects, Principal Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers from other teams.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in our Doctolib Database Optimization team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our databases. You will:

Design, build and maintain core infrastructure databases that allow Doctolib scaling to support hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.

• Automate deployment, scaling, and maintenance of databases to enhance system reliability and operational efficiency,
• Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes to identify and address potential issues before they impact both practitioners and patients,
• Provide documentation and tooling to empower the feature teams in their use of their databases, while ensuring their reliability,
• Mitigate production database issues during working hours when the issue cannot be fixed by the responsible feature team,
• Research and evaluate new technologies, tools, and best practices to continuously improve the reliability and availability of our systems and processes.

Who you are

Are you convinced that you have exactly what it takes for the position? Then we encourage you to apply. Even if you don't meet every requirement, you might be exactly the right future Doctoliber for this or other positions!

• Have a strong hands-on experience (6y+) on a production platform, if possible at scale,
• Have proven experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud,
• Have proven experience with datastores such as PostgreSQL and/or Kafka and/or Couchbase,
• Have solid understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker and Kubernetes),
• Have proficiency in at least one programming language (Ruby, Python, Go, Java, etc.) and understanding of infrastructure as code principles,
• Are fluent in English.

Now, it would be fantastic if you:

• Have an experience with monitoring and observabili