About BlaBlaCar
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel network, connecting over 100 million members across 22 countries looking to carpool or travel by bus. By sharing rides and filling empty seats on the road, our community avoids 1.6 million tons of CO2 emissions every year (as if Paris was free of road traffic for a year!)
We are a global and diverse team of 700+ people with 45+ nationalities, and headquartered in Paris. We’re constantly looking for new ways to leverage technology to create a more affordable, convenient, flexible and sustainable way to travel. And we are always on the lookout for people who care about making a positive impact.
Your Mission
By joining our Foundations department, you will be working alongside talented individuals grouped in small agile teams that each have strong ownership on their piece of these goals.
Foundations is composed of six teams which “provide consistent, easy to use, infrastructures, services, and expertise to support BlaBlaCar’s growth and evolution”.
The Database Reliability (DBRE) team is responsible for designing, building and maintaining BlaBlaCar’s datastores infrastructure in a fast-paced environment. The team’s working toward a vision: “We provide reliable services and expertise that enable BlaBlaCar engineers to master their databases at scale in an easy and safe way.”
Projects and team bandwidth are dedicated to three missions:
- “Design, build and propose database-related services with obsession set on reliability and user's autonomy.”
- “Collaborate with software engineers in building standards to fulfill BlaBlaCar's ambitions on reliability, performance, and compliance domains.”
- “Promote best practices and solutions through open-minded and attractive communications.”
Technical stack:
- Core Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform
- GitOps/Delivery: GitHub, Terraform, Flux, Helm, Jenkins
- Datastores: MariaDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka
- Observability: Datadog, PagerDuty
- Languages: Go for Infra/Tooling, Java and PHP for backend services
Your Responsibilities
Leverage SRE principles to guarantee a best in class datastores platformEnsure a positive 360° collaboration with Software Engineers and other Foundations teams to ensure “reliability is a product feature”Actively share findings and practices through different communication channels: documentation, article and live sessionsYour Qualifications
Relevant experience operating large-scale production systems and web servicesWillingness to focus on datastore expertiseHigh experience in SQL databases (modeling, query optimization)“Measure to Improve” and “Eliminating Toil” are parts of your native languageStrong interpersonal and communication skillsGood knowledge in configuration management and “infra-as-code” practicesHands on experience on containerized environments, Docker and KubernetesIf you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d still be a great fit for this role in your application!
What we have to offer
🌎 An international environment: 45 nationalities across several countries: Brazil, France, Poland, Spain, and Ukraine.⚖️ A flexible workplace: with our hybrid remote setup and family-friendly policies, we are masters of our own schedules and work-life balance, no questions asked.💡 A culture of sharing: 360 onboarding weeks, weekly team-all BlaBlaTalks to learn about what other teams are up to, Q&A sessions with our leadership, shared company KPIs, ‘Fail, Learn, Succeed’ moments where we destigmatize and share moments of failure with others.🚀 Innovation: Coding Nights to pitch ideas outside our roadmap and make dev’ dreams come true, weekly Product & Tech Demos and blogs to share engineering stories, access to top conferences across Europe.🌱 Impact: building a product that has a real impact on society and the environment, and sharing an office culture that prioritizes low-waste and eco-friendly practices.💜 People-first: wind down from work at our weekly breakfasts and afterworks, or show off your talent at our annual BlaBlaShow.🧭 Shared company principles that guide us in our everyday decision-making and bring us closer to our goal. Find out more about our BlaBlaPrinciples.Your Future Benefits
We offer benefits that have a positive impact on you and our society, just like our product!We are flexible - We adapt to your needs:
🏠Full remote possible within your country of employment💵Home office financial support for equipment🚗Relocation package & visa supportWe are impactful - We shape our future together:
📈Equity for all program🌳Company events like the impact day & coding nights💻Learning possibilities through trainings, mentoring, internal development programs, and events.🚌Free carpooling and bus ridesWe care - We care about you and your needs:
👶1 month additional parental leave 100% paid🌴25 vacation days per yearOf course we also cover the basics like transportation, healthcare, meal plan, etc.*Full remote: work from anywhere in France
Interested in joining the ride? Here’s what your hiring journey will look like.
a 45-min video-call with one of our Talent Acquisition Managers to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questionsa 45-min video-call with Maxime Fouilleul, Engineer Manager (DBRE)a fully remote exercise to evaluate your technical skillsa 60-min video-call with Foundations engineers to discuss about infrastructure and SRE practicesa 60-min video-call with your future team DBRE to discuss about databasesa 45-min video-call with our VP Engineering Infrastructure & Operations, Nicolas SalvyOur hiring process lasts on average 20-25 days and offers usually come within 48 hours.
References from our DBRE Team
Organizing the migration of a hundred databases to the cloudLeveraging operator pattern and VolumeSnapshots to backup databases in KubernetesBlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.