System Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

BlaBlaCar: a high growth, global company is looking for talent, experience and passion

A successful and innovative global start-up, backed by world-class venture capital firms, Accel Partners and Index Ventures, our HQ are based in Paris and we have international teams in Madrid, Milan, Warsaw, Hamburg, Moscow, Budapest, London, Istanbul, Mexico City and New Delhi. 

We are creating an entirely new, people powered, transport network. With dedicated customer service, state of the art web and mobile platforms, and a highly engaged community of users, BlaBlaCar is making road travel fun, money-saving and more efficient. 

Read more about us here: http://www.blablacar.com/blog/blablacar-press

Check out WIREDs feature article "BLABLACAR HAS TURNED RIDE-SHARING INTO A MULTI-MILLION-EURO BUSINESS" here: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2015/05/features/blablacar

Being part of the BlaBlaCar team means:

  • you will have a positive social impact on the world, as we continue to make road travel smarter and more sustainable,
  • you will work in a fast-paced environment with a highly agile team of dynamic, hyper-motivated and talented individuals,
  • you will join a global company, with a real international culture and vision; multi-lingual and highly mobile :)
  • you will be part of a supportive team that shares knowledge and empowers every single member to reach their full potential, and continue learning,
  • you will enter a high-growth structure which means that you will be constantly challenged and that your responsibilities will grow fast and change regularly.

Job Description

The Ops team is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated System Engineer to deal with our high tech platform (Cassandra, Hadoop, Elasticsearch…) and a massive amount of information, logs and metrics, in order to store, process and use them. Helping us to define the right architecture for future services and bringing us your ideas and knowledge, you will build a strong sense of team spirit and cooperation with both Dev and Infra teams.

In particular, you will be required to:  

  • Ensure the availability and performance of our production platform,
  • Choose metrics and implement monitoring probes to get the most accurate view of our platform behaviors,
  • Maintain existing infrastructure, plan and realize future evolutions,
  • Orchestrate infrastructure delivery for new features,
  • Provide advice to dev team to help them getting the most from our infra,
  • Feed feedback loop with dev team to get production bug and performance issues fixed.

Qualifications

Do you love command line? Do you hate doing things manually more than three times? Are you fond of monitoring dashboards and metrics data visualization? Then we’re definitely interested in hearing from You!

You will be successful in this role if you have:

  • Degree in computer science or technology related degree, with a minimum of five years of relevant experience,
  • Solid Linux experience (knowledge in Debian packaging is a plus),
  • Strong scripting ability (Bash, Python, Ruby),
  • Experience with at least one configuration management system (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt),
  • Experience with at least one monitoring solution (Zabbix, Nagios/Centreon, Shinken, Munin),
  • Network knowledge (TCP/IP, HTTP),
  • At least a technical level of English,
  • Adaptability in a highly moving and fast growing environment,
  • Capacity to remain calm and efficient under pressure,
  • Experience with a high traffic web service,
  • Real understanding of business team’s needs,
  • Communication and knowledge-sharing ability,
  • Perpetual improvement capacity to solve problems and improve platform efficiency.

Additional Information

  • Start: As soon as possible
  • Place: Paris (no remot working, no offshoring)
  • Contract: Long-term contract (CDI)
  • Salary : According to profile and experience

Please note that without CV, cover letter and answers to our questions, your application won't be reviewed by our hiring team.

All your information will be kept confidential.