Lead Site Reliability Engineer – Cloud

Scalingo

Lead Site Reliability Engineer ensuring reliability and performance of Scalingo's cloud platform. Leading an SRE team and shaping practices for technical excellence in a growing tech startup.

Posted 8/2/2026full-timeRemote • 🇫🇷 FranceSenior💰 €60,000 - €70,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong expertise in cloud environments and distributed infrastructure, with proficiency in observability practices and a solid understanding of containerized environments. Capable of providing technical leadership, mentoring others, and ensuring high service quality while optimizing resource usage and scalability.

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Cloud Environments ExpertiseObservability PracticesInfrastructure as CodeProduction Database ManagementTechnical Leadership

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Hard Skills

Incident Response DesignPerformance AnalysisResource OptimizationContainerized EnvironmentsDatabase ReliabilityAutomationOperational Security AwarenessAI Tools UtilizationComplex Incident DiagnosisService Level Agreements (SLAs)

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationCross-Functional CollaborationTechnical CuriosityComposureBlameless Mindset

Tools & Technologies

Monitoring ToolsMetrics ToolsLogging ToolsAlerting Tools

Industry Keywords

Production Systems StabilityIncident RetrospectivesUser Impact FocusOperational Challenges

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Ensure the stability, availability and resilience of production systems
Anticipate failures and design effective incident response processes
Industrialize and automate platform operations
Maintain a high level of service quality for our customers and comply with contractual commitments (SLAs)
Analyze performance, identify bottlenecks and propose improvements to optimize resource usage and scalability
Define, implement and improve observability tools (monitoring, metrics, logs, alerting) with a proactive approach
Provide level-3 customer support in coordination with support teams and according to SLAs
Lead and facilitate incident retrospectives (post-mortems), identify root causes and define sustainable corrective actions

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong expertise in cloud environments and distributed infrastructure
Proficiency in observability practices (logs, metrics, alerting) and a structured approach to diagnosing complex incidents
Solid understanding of containerized environments and their operational challenges
Proven skills with production databases: reliability, backups, restores, replication and scaling
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and environment automation
Awareness of operational security concerns
Comfortable using AI tools to improve day-to-day efficiency
Ability to operate in complex, changing or uncertain contexts with rigor and reliability
Comfortable prioritizing work, including during incident situations
Clear and structured communication, a preference for cross-functional collaboration and knowledge sharing
A blameless mindset, technical curiosity, composure and a focus on user impact
Ability to provide technical leadership, mentor others and advance collective practices

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully remote with one trip per quarter (Strasbourg or another city)
Company events: one annual offsite and regular afterworks/social gatherings
Telework allowance (€57.60)
Meal vouchers (Ticket Restaurant) (€11.52 per voucher) and Swile card with its benefits
Flexible hours under a fixed-hours agreement (including RTT)
Linux laptop provided
Budget contribution for additional equipment