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Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Permanent contract
Paris
Salary: Not specified
No remote work
Experience: > 5 years

Front
Front

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Front is on a mission to make work happier with the first-ever customer communication hub. Relationships are everything in business, but they’re hard to maintain as a business grows because traits like trust, compassion, and empathy are human qualities that have been difficult for technology to scale. We’ve reimagined the way businesses communicate by bringing customer conversations to the center of one’s focus. Today, nearly 8,000 businesses–including Dropbox, Airbnb, Lydia, and Saint Gobain–have discovered that they can still grow their business and keep the human touch. With $204M in funding, Front is backed by Sequoia Capital and other leading venture capital firms, as well as independent investors including top executives of Atlassian, Okta, Qualtrics, Zoom, and PagerDuty.

The world is on course to work happier. We believe our role is to accelerate and shape this path in three ways: the product we make, the culture we live, and the example we set. We strongly believe in our company values of transparency, high standards, collaboration, low ego, and care. And we look for candidates who reflect these same values. Employee happiness and well-being is a vital component of life at Front. We offer flexibility in work schedules via our Flexible Fridays program and host events for employees to enjoy time with their fellow Fronteers. Whether it is building Legos, playing board games, singing at Karaoke nights, watching movie marathons, or enjoying a homemade DJ set done by a Fronteer, we are always on the lookout to invent fun ways to enjoy life both in and outside of work.

Not only the number of companies using our product is increasing but also the number of users is expanding within each company which means for us :

- Running over a hundred services on more than 10,000 Kubernetes pods at peak traffic

- Managing over 1PB of email data, doubling every 6 months

- 6.9M emails processed each day (inbound + outbound)

- 2.3M messages processed in other channels (e.g. SMS, WhatsApp, etc.)

What will you be doing?

  • Partner with engineering teams to architect their services for scale
  • Scale our systems to handle 10x growth e.g. database sharding to handle customers with 10,000+ users
  • Own our platform that empowers engineering teams to build and run their services seamlessly
  • Own our infrastructure components to support scale, reliability and performance (e.g. k8s clusters, Elasticsearch clusters, etc)
  • Debug and fix app and low level issues impacting our infrastructure
  • Build tooling for distributed, cell-based architecture
  • What skills and experience do you need?

  • Customer first mindset: we are a product focused company with an emphasis on the customer
  • 5+ years of industry experience building highly available, large-scale distributed systems at a large-scale internet service
  • 2+ years of working on software systems built atop of cloud-based environment
  • Proficiency in a high-level language: NodeJS, Java, Python, Go…
  • Willingness to partner with product teams and work in the backend codebase written in NodeJS/Typescript
  • Strong track record of launching and delivering projects of significant complexity and high level of ambiguity
  • Experience architecting, deploying and operating asynchronous work queues, high-volume storage systems, high-throughput systems
  • Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, and high-growth environment
  • Full professional English proficiency
  • Bonus

  • Experience with AWS
  • Experience as a tech-lead of an infrastructure team
  • Experience running large Kubernetes clusters
  • #RemoteWE - We are also open to hiring remotely for this position across Western Europe.

    What we offer

    ✨ Competitive salary

    🤝 Equity for permanent positions (we are post-series D & backed by some of the best VCs in the US)

    🏥 Private health insurance fully covered by Front

    🤩 Brand new office in Paris

    💪 Flexible Fridays - learn more here!

    🏡 Flexibility to work from anywhere 3 days/week (unless posted as a full-remote role)

    🛋 Mental health support with Modern Health

    🍼 Family planning support with Maven

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