Site Reliability Engineer — Data Platform

Location: Paris, France; hybrid workplace with remote work possible for up to 2 days per week

Company

hirify.global is a European e-commerce company specializing in time-limited event sales, working with more than 7,000 brands and employing 5,000 people across 10 countries.

What you will do

• Run and improve the reliability, availability, performance, capacity, and cost of the data platform on Kubernetes.
• Define and track SLOs and improve Prometheus and Grafana monitoring and alerting.
• Automate infrastructure with Terraform, Crossplane, ArgoCD, and GitLab CI/CD.
• Participate in on-call rotations, lead incidents, and write blameless postmortems that drive lasting fixes.
• Work with data engineers and data teams on production readiness, migrations, and tooling.
• Explore AI agents, MCP tools, and automated runbooks for incident investigation and operations.

Requirements

• Production experience running Kubernetes clusters and workloads.
• Infrastructure as code and GitOps experience with Terraform and ArgoCD or a similar tool.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, SLOs, and actionable alerting.
• Experience handling real incidents, finding root causes, and writing postmortems.
• Go or Python coding skills for automation and tooling, plus solid Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with GitLab CI or a similar CI/CD system.
• Daily use of AI assistants such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar, with curiosity about applying AI to platform operations.
• Professional English, written and spoken.

Nice to have

• Kafka, including KRaft and Kafka Connect.
• Trino, Apache Iceberg, and Apache Polaris.
• Ceph or S3 object storage and Postgres with Patroni.
• Crossplane, OPA, GCP, and FinOps practices.
• English.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent employment with variable bonus, profit-sharing, and incentive schemes.
• Hybrid work with remote work possible for up to 2 days per week.
• Online language-learning platform and Works Council benefits.
• CESU service vouchers, holiday vouchers, corporate dining facilities, and smart fridges.
• Access to an on-site gym.

Hiring process

• 30-minute HR screen with a Talent Acquisition Partner.
• Interview with the Hiring Manager.
• Business and technical interview with the local team.