Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Discover our galaxy 🪐

Malt was founded in 2013 and, since then, we managed to become the fastest growing freelance marketplace gathering a community of 550k+ freelancers, 70k+ companies, and 700+ Malters.

We’ve built the industry’s leading freelance management solutions—all on a powerful, data driven—to match companies with the right freelance talent.

But we’re more than just a connector. Our marketplace streamlines freelancer-client communications, simplifies administrative and legal tasks, expedites invoicing and payments, and so much more.

Today, our company is growing fast! We need people like you to help us write this next chapter.

We are a tech company with a human approach 👽

- Strong company culture fuelled by 700+ Malters from 40 nationalities

- Multiple offices per country (France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the Middle East)

- Committed to equality and diversity (50% of people managers are women)

- Strong career path policies allowing all Malters to develop and grow equally

- Backed by renowned investors including ISAI, Eurazeo Growth, Goldman Sachs and BPI France

At Malt we believe that Ambition is the Way, so all lists of missions and responsibilities are non-exhaustive.

Your most important mission consists in operating applications in production and do whatever is necessary to keep the platform reliable, available and resilient.

Some specific responsibilities of the squad you will join includes:

- maintaining and upgrading the system,

- implementing automated systems for monitoring and alerting,

- quickly recovering from incidents (identify origin, mitigate incident, improve system, raise problem, write post-mortem)

- enforcing security and compliance to protect against security threats

- managing with capacity planning and cost optimization

- empowering product squads to continue deliver product quickly and safely

- continuously improving the quality of service, security and efficiency of our Cloud platform

You will also participate in improving the operational excellence of the development team, spreading the SRE practice at Malt and participating in our communities of practices (SRE, security, back-end in particular) and to take part in architectural decision-making.

One of the strengths of our team is the autonomy of its members, especially regarding production management. Our teams are constantly putting their changes into production (~70 releases per week) and are able to push a change into production in a few dozen minutes.

All of this in the context of Malt’s strong and fast growth increasing traffic, opening to new countries, having new technical integrations, etc.

Our Tech Stack

• Frontend: TypeScript, Vue.js, Nuxt, Internal Design System, Stencil.js
• Backend : Kotlin, Java Spring Boot, Gradle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Redis
• Platform: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Gitlab CI 
• Mobile: Swift, KotlinData: Big Query, Looker, Spark, Python
• We practice continuous integration and delivery, we update Malt around 70 times per week in production. We intensively use Datadog for production monitoring and alerting.

Preferred experience

• You have at least 5 years of experience as a system administrator, Cloud ops / Cloud engineer or SRE in a company developing and operating a product in the Cloud
• You hate repetitive, non-reproducible and non-auditable tasks, so you master infra-as-code solutions (ideally terraform), or even git-ops
• You master all or part of our technical stack described above, including Kubernetes.
• You prefer to fail and correct quickly rather than follow endless validation processes, you know how to organize efficient and actionable post-mortems

Our Recruitment process

• Screening with Alex, Tech Talent Acquisition Manager, to better understand your background, aspirations and answer your questions (45 minutes)
• Interview with Romain, our Senior Platform Engineering Manager, to discuss your experience and the role in more detail (60 minutes)
• Technical Interview with the team (90 minutes)
• Final interview with a C-Level to discuss long-term vision at Malt




☎️ Proposal within 48h

Malt is the perfect space to thrive personally and professionally 💫

- Onboarding: Before easing into your new role, you’ll spend your first week learning about our culture, products, and services with other onboardees at our office in Paris

- Equity: Every Malter is entitled to stock options 

- Lunch vouchers: €9/day on your Swile card.

- Transportation: 50% reimbursement (any type of transport)

- RTT: From 8 to 12 days off

- Malt sabbatical: After three years, every Malter is entitled to a one month paid sabbatical leave.

- Free books: If you’re interested in learning more about any topic relevant to Malt’s business, just tell us the books you’d like to read, and we’ll order them for you—without any questions asked or approval processes to follow.

- Remote work: full remote, with a possibility to work from any of our offices

- Annual team building events

Ready? Get your ticket to Malt 🪐