Lead DevOps Engineer

About the Role

We’re looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to define and execute our infrastructure vision while staying hands-on day to day. You’ll lead a small team responsible for reliability, scalability, security, and developer productivity across our cloud and CI/CD stack. This role reports to the Head of Engineering and partners closely with Product and Engineering teams to help us ship faster with confidence.

What you'll do:

• Own the DevOps/Platform vision and roadmap: reliability targets, scalability strategy, security posture, and cost-efficiency.
• Lead and grow the DevOps team: coaching, setting high execution standards, and creating clear rituals (planning, on-call, incident reviews).
• Stay hands-on: design, implement, and operate core infrastructure (Kubernetes, cloud networking, CI/CD, observability, secrets management).
• Build and maintain strong delivery pipelines: CI, CD, environments, release processes, and safe deployment practices (feature flags, rollbacks, progressive delivery).
• Raise the bar on reliability: SLOs/SLIs, on-call practices, incident response, postmortems, and proactive risk reduction.
• Drive observability end to end: metrics, logs, traces, alerting quality, and actionable dashboards.
• Partner with engineering squads to improve developer experience: local/staging parity, tooling, golden paths, documentation, and self-service.
• Manage cloud cost trade-offs pragmatically, keeping speed and reliability high while controlling spend.

What we're looking for:

Must Have:

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps/SRE/Platform roles, including leading a team.
• Strong experience operating production systems on a major cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure). We are using GCP.
• Deep knowledge of modern infrastructure patterns: containers/Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform), CI/CD, observability, and incident management.
• Proven ability to set direction and execute hands-on, from design through production operations.
• Strong communication and prioritization skills, able to align stakeholders and make pragmatic trade-offs.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with high-throughput, real-time, or voice/communications workloads.
• Strong security engineering instincts (IAM, network segmentation, secrets, vulnerability management).
• Experience building internal platform products (self-serve deployments, templates, developer portals).
• FinOps experience (cost attribution, unit economics, capacity planning).

What we offer

• Hybrid work setup with minimum 3 days/week in our Paris office.
• High ownership and autonomy
• Diverse, international team across Europe
• Exposure to cutting-edge AI, voice, and enterprise deployments
• Fast-paced environment with strong learning curve
• 25 days holiday + public holidays
• Private healthcare (based on country- but for France it's 50% coverage for you, and 100% Coverage for your kids
• Swile (France only)
• Pension contribution
• ESOP/VSOP (shares)