Data Reliability Engineer (Data Engineer SRE)

Our mission? Making day-to-day banking easier for SMEs and freelancers thanks to an online business account that's combined with invoicing, bookkeeping and spend management tools. Thanks to its innovative product, highly reactive 24/7 customer support and clear pricing, Qonto has become the leader in its market.

Our journey: Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 500,000 customers. Thanks to our wonderful team of 1,600+ Qontoers, we also made it to the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking!

Our values:

• Customer focus: Prioritize customers in everything you do
• Ownership: Own your part, get things done
• Teamwork: Make (team)work easy
• Mastery: Continuously raise the bar
• Integrity: Always do what’s right, and respect people

Our beliefs: At Qonto, we're committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive. We prioritize evaluating applicants based solely on skills and potential, ensuring diversity with 50% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents. Join us in building a workplace that celebrates diversity and individuality.

To follow Qonto's ambition in terms of data we created the Data Department, handling Data Analysis, Engineering, and Science.

The data department has grown from 5 to 50 people in three years (and we're still hiring)!

Data Engineering is the cornerstone of our data strategy.

As a SRE Data at Qonto, you will:

• Be the referent on the team's infrastructure subjects to build a more resilient data infrastructure
• Create self-service data tools and infrastructure with high levels of automation
• Take ownership of key DevOps areas such as standardizing alerting and observability
• Have a structured reflection on the choices we make and why we make them
• Help the team to establish a production-ready streaming ecosystem (likely with Apache Flink)
• Make technical choices: at Qonto, technical decisions are made by technical expertise, not by position or level
• Continuously evaluate and improve system performance, reliability, and scalability

Your Toolkit (or team’s toolkit):

• Cloud services: AWS, EKS
• Data Warehouse: Snowflake
• Orchestration and pipelines: Airflow, Airbyte
• Container technology: Kubernetes, Docker
• CI/CD: GitLab CI & ArgoCD
• Monitoring: Metrics with Prometheus & Thanos
• DB and messaging: AWS RDS PostgreSQL, SQS, Redis, and Kafka
• Programming language: Go & Python
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

What you can expect:

• Join Qonto who is winning SME banking in Europe. Qonto is on track to power one million SMEs in 2025
• Qonto is highly data-driven with modern and 'state of the art' data tools
• Work within a team that not only possesses great technical knowledge but also comes from various backgrounds, bringing a rich diversity of skills to the table
• The ability to give feedback and propose new tools
• Leverage our values and culture of continuous improvement to amplify your impact. We foster a strong culture of knowledge-sharing practices.
• Our data teams are part of our Tech team, granting us easy access to our infrastructures while also supporting teamwork

Your Future Manager:

Your Future Manager will be Victor Cumer, Data Engineering Manager.

His background? After his experience with Veepee where he managed the Data Platform team, Victor joined Qonto in October 2024 to bring his expertise to the data engineering team!

What does he bring to the team? Victor has experience in various data roles (science, analysis, governance, engineering). He is a hands-on manager with a strong data culture and experience with various data architectures. As the former head of Data Platform at Veepee, he is influenced by Platform Engineering principles and is at ease with the approaches to provide related infrastructure and tooling services.

About You:

• Expertise: You have a data engineer/data platform background and expertise as a SRE/DevOps in tech companies
• Mastery: You deeply understand Infrastructure’s issues and are proficient in at least one programming language (i.e: Go, Python). You know DevOps philosophy (monitoring, automation..) and have experience with Terraform and container technologies like Kubernetes.
• Communication: You have good communication skills and know how to work with a team
• Best Practices: You strive to promote best practices: continuous integration, testing, automated/continuous deployment, and code patterns.
• Make an impact: You want to build a product that is used by thousands of companies, in a fast-growing environment
• Language: You are fluent in English

At Qonto we understand that true diversity isn't just about ticking boxes on a hiring checklist. Apply regardless of the boxes you tick! Who knows? You may have the missing piece of the puzzle we've been searching for all along.

Perks:

• Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade;
• Tailor-made remote work policy depending on the job you apply for and where you live;
• Competitive salary package;
• A meal voucher;
• Public transportation reimbursement (part or global);
• A great health insurance (depending on the country);
• Employee well-being initiatives: access to Moka Care to take care of your mental health and great offers for sports and wellness activities;
• A progressive disability and parenthood policy (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners;
• Monthly team events.

Our hiring process:

• Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers
• A remote exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like

We will send you an interview guide so you can best prepare yourself.

On average, our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours.

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