The Job

We are looking for an experienced developer to join our Database-as-a-Service team. Your main mission will be to create, deliver and maintain software components that orchestrate customer databases across our global infrastructure, as well as maintain mission-critical databases across the company.

Are you ready to define and strengthen cloud services that will make developers’ lives easier and improve their efficiency ?

This is a unique opportunity to join Scaleway and help scale the ecosystem of our core cloud products.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing, developing and maintaining the Scaleway “Database-as-a-Service” services
• Maintaining and improving the internal database infrastructures for other teams

You’ll face numerous challenges, working on architecting, developing and deploying resilient and scalable products for demanding customers and maintaining company business-critical databases with high volumes of data.

We’re particularly interested in a person with previous experiences in linux systems and database administration, to optimize and improve the product internals, as well as helping refine the features.

The Team

We’re a highly motivated team, with a real passion about distributed systems engineering, database technologies and cloud technologies in general.

Spread across the two “Maisons” in Paris and Lille, team communication is a key, so we use modern collaboration solutions to keep ourselves up-to-date on all the topics we’re working on.

Our team culture is about :

• Teamwork on features design and implementation
• Daily remote video meetings
• Agile methods
• Peer reviews
• Autonomy
• Self-improvement

Knowledge that we’ll value

• Python Development
• Database clustering and management
• Linux System Administration
• Database Troubleshooting
• High Availability Mechanisms
• System and Database tuning
• Cloud Ecosystems
• REST and gRPC APIs
• English language

Technologies we use

• Python, Go
• PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Container Technologies
• Linux Systems (ubuntu)
• DCS Systems (consul, etcd)
• S3
• VCS (git)
• Ansible
• Prometheus

Guidelines we follow

• Customer-oriented development
• Fault tolerance testing
• Unit Tests
• Continuous Integration

Pluses we’ll like

• Knowledge of other types of databases
• Knowledge on networking
• Knowledge on monitoring

You recognize yourself by reading these lines and you want to join a young, innovative, growing company where it is good to work?

Then don’t wait any longer and join us :)

This position can be based in Paris, Lille or full-time remote