Staff Site Reliability Engineer @ Qonto
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About Qonto
Our mission: Creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed in business and beyond by delivering Europe’s leading finance workspace. Qonto, founded in 2017 by Alexandre and Steve, serves over 600,000 customers with a team of 1,600+ Qontoers and has earned recognition in the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking.
Our Values and Beliefs
Customer Focus, Ownership, Teamwork, Mastery, and Integrity drive Qonto. We foster diversity with 55% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents, and our hiring process is free from discrimination.
Role Overview: Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Join Qonto as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to build a reliable and scalable architecture at a European level. You will help streamline the platform, enhance automation, and collaborate with various teams to design, deploy, and maintain a robust microservice infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to building and deploying a new European-level banking architecture.
- Collaborate with backend, frontend, and security engineers to design robust solutions.
- Automate tasks to reduce manual toil while improving velocity.
- Participate in on-call rotations and conduct post-incident reviews.
- Share knowledge by communicating, documenting, and presenting technical insights.
Technology Stack
You will work with cloud providers (AWS, GCP), container technologies (Kubernetes with EKS & GKE, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Karpenter), CI/CD (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), monitoring tools (Prometheus, Thanos, OpenTelemetry, OpsGenie, Elasticsearch, Loki), databases and messaging systems (AWS RDS PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, SQS, Redis, Kafka), the Go programming language, and Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
What You Can Expect
You will develop microservices to reduce toil, design scalable solutions for high load scenarios, propose innovative solutions with autonomy, and work with modern stacks and GitOps practices while ensuring cost efficiency.
Your Future Manager
You will report to Morgan, a leader who emphasizes autonomy, trust, and team spirit, encouraging continuous learning and clear objective alignment.
About You
You are experienced in infrastructure tool development and Kubernetes management. You possess programming skills to create scalable automation solutions, a pragmatic approach to problem solving, and a mindset committed to continuous improvement. Fluency in English is required; French is a plus.
Perks
Enjoy a tailor-made career track, an inclusive work environment, competitive salary, meal vouchers, transportation reimbursements, health insurance, mental health support, sports and wellness offers, childcare benefits and more. Offices are located in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade.
Hiring Process
The process includes interviews with the Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers, a remote or live technical exercise, and usually lasts about 20 working days with offers following within 48 hours.
Key skills/competency
- Reliability
- Scalability
- Automation
- Infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Microservices
- CI/CD
- Monitoring
- Cost Reduction
How to Get Hired at Qonto
🎯 Tips for Getting Hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight your SRE and automation experience.
- Customize your cover letter: Emphasize scalability and cloud expertise.
- Prepare for technical rounds: Review Kubernetes and AWS fundamentals.
- Showcase collaboration: Detail teamwork in multi-disciplinary projects.