System Engineer - Performance

  • Full-time

Company Description

BlaBlaCar is the global leader in long-distance carpooling. We are an innovative and fast-growing company building a unique community of members to transform the way people travel!

For more information about us, please visit www.BlaBlaCar.com/DreamJobs

Job Description

Why join us?

Do you love art of caching, serving websites across the world and tweaking system parameters? Are you excited about building your own CDN and you have a little idea on how to achieve this goal… then we’re definitely interested in hearing from you!

The SRE Performance team is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated System Engineer to deal with our web/api/mobile delivery strategy and a lot of subjects around tracking, security, logs and metrics.

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 all our SRE team.

What you will directly contribute to:

  • Ensuring the availability and performance of our load balancing and reverse proxy caching farms;

  • Choosing metrics and implementing monitoring probes to get the most accurate view of our platform behaviors;

  • Maintaining existing infrastructure, planning and realizing future evolutions;

  • Orchestrating infrastructure delivery for new features in coordination with other teams;

  • High throughput and scalability as a daily focus;

  • Ensuring platform security robustness.

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

  • Solid Linux experience, shell scripts;

  • Knowledge of TLS protocol and SSL certificates;

  • Configuration knowledge of at least one proxy cache tool (nginx, varnish, apache traffic server...);

  • Be humble, structured, organized, motivated by innovation and constantly motivated to get things done;

  • Enjoy working as a team-player and learning from others.

What will make you a SRE performance gladiator:

  • Exabgp knowledge

  • Varnish VCL

  • Containers (rkt or docker)

  • Golang

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role:

  • Start: As soon as you are ready!

  • Location: Paris HQ

  • Contract: Permanent contract (CDI)

  • Compensation: Competitive package based on experience

What we offer all of our employees:

  • A start-up spirit that fosters agility, teamwork and impact;

  • Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment;

  • The choice between the latest Mac or PC equipment;

  • An inspiring working environment including state-of-the-art office spaces;

  • Free carpooling to live our value “Think it. Build it. Use it.”;

  • Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend;

  • Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other;

  • Weekly Tech Demos;

  • And many more benefits - check them out on BlaBlaCar.com/dreamjobs.

What is next:

If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume in English (PDF format) and answer our questions in English.

Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.

You can expect us to review your application within the following 4 weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will invite you to a first call and few on-site interviews with the team.