Site Reliability Engineer (Storage)

Location: Geneva, Switzerland or Paris, France; office-first setup with three core days in the office and work from home up to 30% of the time

Salary: €50,000–€77,000 annual gross for the Paris office

Company

Proton develops privacy-focused, encrypted services including Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Drive, Proton Pass, and Proton Calendar.

What you will do

• Design, build, operate, automate, and scale resilient on-premise storage infrastructure for critical production services.
• Develop automation for deployments, configuration management, and service reliability.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response to maintain high availability and resolve issues quickly.
• Collaborate with product, security, backend engineering, and architecture teams on privacy and data protection best practices.
• Document backend capabilities, proper usage, and operational knowledge.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for the Storage service.

Requirements

• Experience building complex production systems.
• Operational experience diagnosing and troubleshooting complex problems in critical systems.
• Experience with software development.
• Solid understanding of security best practices.
• High-level understanding of cryptography concepts.

Nice to have

• Experience with storage systems such as Ceph, Seaweed, or Tape.

Culture & Benefits

• Office-first collaboration with offices across Europe and Asia, plus up to 30% work from home.
• Flexible working hours coordinated with team meetings.
• Company-provided devices, software, daily lunch and snacks at the office.
• Transport support through public transport subsidies, bike allowances, or parking spaces.
• Stock options, health insurance, retirement savings options, vacation and leave policies, and wellness programs.
• Learning opportunities including training programs, conferences, events, and continual development.