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Lead Database Reliability Engineer (Hybrid remote Policy)

Permanent contract
Noida
Salary: Not specified
No remote work

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Sendinblue is the European leader in digital marketing software. We are a complete Sales & Marketing toolbox: email, SMS, Facebook ads, chat, CRM, and more in one single SaaS platform. Our mission is to empower all companies with the tools they need to build stronger customer relationships and grow their business through meaningful interactions.

We have a team of more than 600 employees representing over 67 nationalities spread across seven offices located in Paris, Berlin, Sofia, Noida, Bengaluru, Seattle and Toronto.

We’re looking for a Lead database reliability engineer to own projects related to our database systems, who will contribute to defining the technical architecture and setting up the processes (automated deployment, monitoring…) while working closely with the development, SRE, Infrastructure and DevOps teams.

The Infrastructure, DBRE and DevOps team of 20 people across 3 of our offices is responsible for building and maintaining the whole infrastructure, scaling the platform and ensuring its stability and performance, as well as building the good practices and the tools to ensure the fastest delivery while maintaining the highest quality standard. 

You will be working in the database team composed of 2 people at the moment and reporting to the Global Head of Platform.

Responsibilities

  • Able to create and push innovative solutions in order to keep Sendinblue databases at the top of the database ecosystem
  • Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for example through reviews of database migrations, share best practices on a core engine, queries, and performance optimizations)
  • Own and manage from 1 to many projects and databases ecosystem, lead and guide technically our database reliability engineers
  • Jump into a critical project and be able to unblock any situation (on-call, day run, production issues...)
  • Master and own all our databases (ClickHouse, MongoDB, MySQL, BigQuery, Bigtables...) that feed all our applications for different purposes (events and data pipelines, emailing template and many more...) and ensure their high availability, performance and monitoring
  • Contribute to the technical roadmap of our platform
  • Share experience and knowledge to team members by giving workshops sessions and training sessions in order to make them grow
  • Implement and maintain the industry's best practices and fine tuning for optimum performance.
  • Willing to document the technical aspect of database design/project specifications etc.
  • Our platform

  • +17: MongoDB clusters (~400 servers)
  • +150M: the number of emails delivered per day
  • +200M: the number of http requests received in 1 day
  • +500TB: the volume of data served (http) every month
  • ~500 servers and ~150 cloud instances (GCP and AWS)
  • 20K: the number of messages exchanged on the platform every second
  • 5: our points of presence in the world
  • 99.98% the uptime of our API over the last 6 months
  • Our technical stack

  • Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Rancher, RabbitMQ, Docker, Envoy, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Golang, Kafka, Nginx, HAProxy, Clickhouse, Redis cluster & sentinel, DataDog, Zookeeper
  • Profile

  • At least 6+ years experience working as DBA or/and DevOps with a particular focus on databases
  • At least 2+ years of experience in the same position
  • Experience in system administration, networking, cloud computing and automation
  • Ability to pick up new technology concepts on the fly and discuss with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Advanced knowledge in NoSQL databases
  • Highly positive attitude and ability to build conducive working relationships with colleagues from all levels
  • Excellent English and strong experience in a multicultural environment - another language will be appreciated such as Hindi, German or French
  • Benefits

  • A unique opportunity to join an international and collaborative startup environment in a hyper-growth context
  • The chance to grow your professional and technical skills, with real room for career progression
  • A modern office in a central location with free fruits & drinks & lot of fun activities
  • SIBOP: all Sendinblue employees are granted our shared ownership plan - the more Sendinblue will be evaluated, the more you will get
  • Amazing referral program where employees can choose a gift item of 1.5 Lac including a bike, flight tickets, and many more.
  • 1.4x times your day salary if you're working on any week off or holiday due to critical tasks/issues
  • An umbrella of leaves and holidays
  • Medical insurance
  • Wellness benefit fund up to INR 15,000 in a year to each employee
  • Budget to support your workspace at home
  • Medical Insurance of INR 10 Lacs is borne by the company.
  • An employee-friendly compensation structure that includes Tax saving optional components where the employee can save extra tax
  • Bi-annual global company offsite; inter-office trips (when the current sanitary situation permits)
  • Virtual Festival & Birthday celebrations, Team parties, & team-building outings
  • While we know things are a not that good these days because of COVID-19, we are still looking for great candidates to join our amazing team. Our recruiting process will remain virtual (Hangout, Zoom) to provide a safe experience.

    Timeline and details of the hiring process will be shared by the TA team during the first call.

    Sendinblue puts diversity and inclusion at the heart of its values. We examine all applications with treatment based on equal skills and applying the principles of non-discrimination.

    Sendinblue values work-life balance and offers flexible working hours and remote work. The majority of our teams will be working mostly remote and others will follow a hybrid model depending upon the nature of the job. This policy is based on a mutual understanding between Head of, Managers and Team Members.

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