Software Engineer - Developer

💼 Scaleway - Software Engineer, Platform Reliability

About Scaleway

Founded in 1999, Scaleway is the cloud subsidiary of Iliad Group, a leading European telecommunications company. Our mission is to foster a more responsible digital industry by helping developers and businesses build, deploy, and scale applications on any infrastructure.

With offices in Paris and Lille, we continuously improve our cloud ecosystem, which we are the first to use.

Our 25,000+ customers choose us for our multi-AZ redundancy, seamless user experience, carbon-neutral data centers, and native multi-cloud management tools. Our products include fully managed solutions for bare metal, containerization, and serverless architectures, providing a responsible choice in cloud computing.

Join our dynamic team of nearly 600 employees from diverse backgrounds in a stimulating and international environment that combines technical excellence, creativity, and sharing.

About the Job 👨‍💻

Reporting to a Lead, you will ensure we can reliably serve our products to users worldwide. We expect you to have a strong background in development and system administration. Our systems constantly evolve, and the tools needed to observe and act to ensure their resilience need to evolve accordingly.

Minimum Qualifications

• Knowledge of at least 1 programming language (Golang, Rust, Python preferred)
• Basic knowledge of Linux administration and server administration
• Understanding of API and microservices concepts
• Practical knowledge of Git (and/or GitHub/GitLab)
• Practical knowledge of Kubernetes (or other container/VM orchestration systems)
• Team spirit: working in pairs, peer reviewing, etc.
• Familiar with or strongly interested in building a low-level cloud stack or working on PaaS products up to AI products for a cloud ecosystem
• Understanding of written and spoken English, capable of writing technical documentation in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Good knowledge of Golang
• Fluent with Git and deployment tools (CI/CD)
• At ease in troubleshooting code and systems
• Inquisitive, like to study in-depth and execute in steps
• Take initiatives to propose new solutions and defend them
• Team player, willing to share knowledge, opinions, and participate in regular team rituals

Responsibilities

• Develop new IaaS/PaaS products from scratch (API/backend/worker)
• Add new functionalities to existing products
• Improve the testing coverage of new or existing products
• Write technical product documentation (usage, APIs)
• Keep code easy to maintain
• Manage the operation (Run) in weekly turns and communicate with our customers on specific issues
• Build a strong relationship with other teams (Product, Design, Front, Technical writers, etc.)

Technical Stack

• Golang
• Python
• PostgreSQL
• RabbitMQ
• gRPC/protobuf
• Kubernetes
• Ansible
• Terraform
• GitLab CI/CD
• Packer
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Sentry

Location

This position is based in our offices in Paris, Lille, Toulouse, or Bordeaux (France).

If you don't think you tick all the boxes, don't hesitate to apply anyway. Don't limit yourself to a job description - you never know!

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