BlaBlaCar’s vision is to bring fairness, freedom and fraternity to the world of travel. 

BlaBlaCar was created in 2006 with one dream in mind: fill the millions of empty seats on the road to create an efficient, affordable and friendly way to travel. Today, our global, trusted community counts 75 million members in 22 countries, enabling a smarter, large scale and truly sustainable transport network. 

Born from a simple idea of people sharing their rides, BlaBlaCar’s ambition is to become the go-to marketplace for shared road mobility. We offer long distance carpooling service, a commuting carpooling service, and since 2018  a marketplace bus service too. A filled bus emits one third of the emissions per passenger kilometer as an average car. So we want to fill those seats too! 

In 2018, 84 million travellers used BlaBlaCar globally saving 1.6 million tons of CO2. Meanwhile we enabled human connections, bringing people closer together in more ways than one with 87% of members say that carpooling is an enriching experience. 

BlaBlaCar offers a truly and unique international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities,  serving a global member-base from 8 offices in Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw. English is the official spoken language across BlaBlaCar. We are privately-held and founder-led. Our team of 500 employees is entrepreneurial, passionate, and fundamentally mission-driven.

Why join us?

The Foundations Team is responsible for designing, building and maintaining BlaBlaCar’s core infrastructure in a fast-paced environment. The team’s work ensures that our community of over 60 million members uses a fast and reliable platform.

We think ahead. We move fast. We like bleeding-edge technologies. Oh and by the way: everything we run here is in containers !

What you will directly contribute to:

• Designing, building and improving parts of our infrastructure to address scaling needs and resiliency;

• Developing tools and services to ease the work of developers;

• Designing and building systems to automate away problems;

• Responding to, investigating and fixing service issues.

What you will need to be successful?

• Relevant experience working in a system and/or software engineering role;

• Good knowledge of shell scripting and at least one systems oriented language (Go, python...);

• Passion for shipping well engineered and well tested code;

• Deep knowledge of Linux and TCP/IP networking fundamentals;

• Experience with large scale production systems and web technologies;

• Good knowledge of configuration management and monitoring systems;

• Ability to learn quickly in a fast-moving international environment;

• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently;

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills;

• Fluent in English, French is a plus (other languages are appreciated).

And it would be nice (not required) if you had:

• Knowledge of container and process isolation technologies;

• Experience with large continuous integration/deployment systems;

• Knowledge in network infrastructure;

• Commits to open-source projects;

• International work or study experience is a significant advantage.

A few practical details about the role:

• Start: As soon as you are ready!

• Location: Paris

• Contract: Long-term contract

• Benefits: Competitive package combined with challenging career opportunities in a high-growth environment

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;

• 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 two weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements,we will invite you for a phone interview, followed by in-house interview sessions.