Site Reliability Engineer (Platform Reliability) - Internship

Our mission? Creating the finance solution that energizes SMEs and freelancers, so they can achieve more(e)We simplify everything from everyday banking to bookkeeping and spend management(e)At Qonto, we’re passionate about creating the best product - with both impact and a great user experience(e)So if you’re looking for an ambitious team that’s revolutionizing a rather old-fashioned industry, get in touch(e)You can find out more about the Qonto Way here.

Alexandre and Steve launched Qonto in July 2017(e)Since then, the team has made great strides:

- Becoming market leader for online SME banking in Europe with 250,000 SME clients

- Getting recognized as one of the Top 10 startups to work for (LinkedIn | Glassdoor)

- Opening offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Barcelona

- 700+ happy Qontoers building a finance solution businesses love to use.

Ambition | We tackle big challenges(e)No matter what

Teamwork | We create momentum by working together, at the same speed

Mastery | We pursue excellence through continuous learning(e)We face challenges with humility(e)Every day

Integrity | We're open(e)We're honest(e)And we earn the trust of our clients and each other

The engineering team at Qonto currently has over 200 highly skilled engineers, from all over the world, working closely in cross-functional teams to shape our finance solutions(e)They participate in the discussions on the direction of our banking product, manage how we will handle our ever-growing user base needs, and deliver high-quality products in a fast-paced environment.

As Site Reliability Engineer, you will join a team of 12 talented people that will contribute to building and deploying a new banking architecture at the European level.

The main mission is to build and operate efficient, reliable, safe, and scalable environments for customers and Qontoers.

 

• Look at the big picture: You will contribute to building and deploying a new banking architecture at the European level

• Build robust solutions: Work in collaboration with backend, frontend & security engineers to design, deploy & maintain our microservice infrastructure

• Improve velocity: Reduce toil through automation and pragmatism

• Master observability: Work on the three pillars of observability logs, metrics & tracing

• Maintain availability: Participate in the on-call rotation & post-incident reviews with backend engineers

• Contribute to shine through tech eco-system: You will share your knowledge through communication, documentation, and talks

Cloud services: AWS, EKS

Container technology: Kubernetes, Docker

CI/CD: GitLab CI & ArgoCD

Monitoring: Prometheus with Thanos & Grafana, NewRelic, Sentry, OpsGenie

DB and messaging: AWS RDS PostgreSQL, SQS, Redis, and Kafka

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

• Learn to use problem-solving methodologies

• Spend time designing robust solutions by taking into consideration Qonto scaling needs

• Work on modern stacks through GitOps & challenge technical status-quo

• Collaborate with other teams on tech challenges, spec reviews, brainstorming & problem-solving sessions

Victor, Lead SRE, will work with you every day and help you learn & grow at Qonto.

• Their Background? After graduating from EPITA as a computer engineer specializing in web technologies, he worked as lead DevOps in a french startup offering full homemade e-commerce & insurance solutions for various companies including Leclerc, Midas, Carrefour, and Total Energies & many others(e)After seeing dozen of different company structures & DevOps strategies, he joined Qonto in 2020 in the SRE Platform Reliability team to support Qonto growth.

• What do they bring to the team? By having a healthy and open work environment, Victor promotes continuous improvements & team ambition in order to make the platform as reliable as possible(e)By raising the bar of quality, each member of the team is able to promote his own ideas and develop new skills in order to match the objectives(e)Victor orient & supports each member while ensuring that they work in a good work atmosphere by having the time to ensure quality & work with other teams.

• Experience: You have strong experience working with Linux and Docker (working in a fast-paced/startup environment would be a plus)(e)You have production experience managing Kubernetes clusters and their workloads

• Mastery: You have practical knowledge working with infrastructure & config management technologies, such as Terraform(e)You are comfortable with cloud architecture (like AWS, Azure, or GCP)

• Make an impact: You want to build a product that is used by thousands of companies, in a fast-growing environment while preserving a high level of reliability

• Best practices:You strive to promote best practices: gitops, continuous integration, automated/continuous deployment, testing, and observability

• Team player: You have good communication skills and you know how to work with a team

• Languages: Fluent in English

A laptop(e)An inclusive work environment(e)A tailor-made career track(e)And so much more to help you succeed…

- A fully-renovated building in the center of Paris with WeWork services

- The latest equipment from Apple

- Monthly team events

- Free coffee and snacks in the kitchen

- A competitive salary package

- Remote Policy: from 2 days per week to Full remote

- 5 to 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days

- Alan health insurance, Moka Care to take care of your mental health, andGymlib for sports and wellness activities

- Swile Card for lunch

- An inclusive environment with a focus on parity: 40% of our teams are women

- A progressive parenthood policy as part of our commitment to the Parental Act (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners

- Relocation package and visa sponsorship for international talents (we have 50+ nationalities) including access to Busuu to improve your language skills

- Career tracks and mobility opportunities that can match all expectations

- A 60 min video call with one of our Talent Acquisition Managers, to better understand your career plan and answer any questions you may have

- A 60 min video call with your future manager, to be aligned on expectations on both sides and to talk about how you would work together

- A remote exercise to evaluate your skills and give you a taste of what working Qonto could be like

- Video calls or onsite interviews with future team members (optional) to help you understand what working at Qonto is like

- A final video call or onsite interview with the manager of your future Department

Check this article to learn more about the hiring process and we will send you an interview guide so you can best prepare yourself.

On average our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞

Thank you for considering joining Qonto(e)We cannot wait to learn more about you!

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