Doctolib
Non renseigné
MISSION
We are looking for a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join the Doctolib Database Optimization team in the Platform team.
The team which you will join ensures the reliability and performance of our datastores while fostering a platform mindset in our transition to the you build it, you run it paradigm. It is a multidisciplinary team made of both Site Reliability Engineers and Software Engineers, which enables us to have a complete view of the problems we need to solve and of the alternative solutions we might implement to solve them.
As a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE), you will play a critical role in our mission for our main datastores: PostgreSQL / AWS Aurora, Kafka, Couchbase and OpenSearch.
Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Reliability Engineering: Ensure high availability of our datastores and our own operational efficiency through observability, automation, tooling, backup strategies, disaster recovery planning and process improvement,
- Database maintenance: Handle database infrastructure maintenance including upgrades, performance optimization, cost optimization and capacity planning,
- Incident mitigation: Participate in incident response for datastore-related issues in production during business hours, when the issue cannot be fixed by the responsible feature team,
- Database-as-a-service: Empower feature teams with database tooling, guidelines, training and support to manage and use their databases efficiently,
- Datastore expertise sharing: Stay up-to-date with datastore technology evolution and share knowledge with the team on new features, best practices, and industry trends.
About our tech environment
- Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to the country and healthcare specialty requirements. To address these challenges, we are modularizing our platform run in a distributed architecture through reusable components.
- Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift and React Native.
- We leverage AI in an ethical manner across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here and learn about our first AI hackathon here!
PROFIL RECHERCHÉ
Have 6+ years of experience as a Database Reliability Engineer, or SRE with strong database expertise, or DBA with strong inclination towards site reliability practices,
- Have strong expertise in at least one of our core datastores (PostgreSQL, Couchbase or OpenSearch) or an equivalent technology, in a high-load and high-availability environment,
- Have hands-on experience with Kafka or an equivalent technology,
- Have hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud environments (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud) in a production environment,
- Have excellent communication and mentoring skills and embrace the "you build it, you run it" philosophy,
- Speak English
Before you read on - if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to apply.
- Have experience with multiple kinds of datastores and have curiosity and willingness to learn new datastores and adapt to evolving technology landscapes,
- Have been involved in architecture choices for high traffic web applications, particularly scalability challenges on large databases, and building self-service platforms through Database as a Product approaches,
- Are comfortable with Linux systems administration, automation, and performance troubleshooting.
Doctolib
Non renseigné
16/09/2025
Freelance