Alma shapes the fintech landscape. We strive to serve and empower consumers and merchants by developing innovative solutions that redefine their purchase experience.

About the job

As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), your main responsibilities are:

• Organise and prioritise SRE roadmaps to ensure that the infrastructure is aligned with customer needs (internal and external)
• Lead cross-functional initiatives within the product teams
• Regularly interact with stakeholders and senior management, ensuring alignment and effective communication on key initiatives
• Promote automation and SRE best practices to optimise operational efficiency
• Develop and maintain backup and disaster recovery strategies to protect data and ensure business continuity
• Design, implement, and maintain monitoring tools to track key system metrics, health indicators, and our SLAs/SLOs
• Provide technical support and expertise to engineering teams for the resolution of application and infrastructure incidents
• Carry out in-depth analysis of incidents in order to identify the underlying causes and put in place corrective measures
• Maintain the platform in operational condition by implementing updates, security patches and continuous improvements
• Participate in the optimisation of the operating costs of the platform
• Supporting and guide SREs through knowledge-sharing and collaboration, fostering continuous improvement across the team

What would make you a perfect fit for the job?

• Experience: minimum 8 years of experience in cloud infrastructures management (internships & apprenticeships experiences excluded)
• Deep knowledge of Google Cloud platform or other cloud providers, good network knowledge, and practice of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• You also have experience in project management, enabling you to oversee and drive initiatives from planning to successful delivery
• Experience in setting up and maintaining monitoring tools, analysing metrics, and malfunctions
• Language: fluent in French and good level of English are both mandatory
• Methodical mindset & approach, strong presentation, communication, and problem-solving skills to collaborate with different teams, tackle problems and provide solutions effectively

Our technical stack

• Cloud providers: GCP, CloudFlare, AWS
• Backend: Python + FastAPI and Flask
• Frontend: React / Typescript
• Databases technologies: PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery
• Log and error management: Datadog, Sentry
• CI/CD: Github Actions, Docker
• Monitoring: Datadog
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

About the recruitment process

• Phone Interview with Recruiter (30-45 mins)
• Interview with Hiring Manager (60 mins)
• Take-home technical test, following by a technical discussion session on the take-home technical test and system design (90 mins)
• Team Fit interview (30 mins)
• Interview with Staff Engineer (60 mins)