Senior Expert Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

LIVE THE MUSIC WITH US

From a pioneer tech start-up created in 2007, Deezer has become one of the first French unicorns and the second largest independent music streaming platform in the world.
At eighteen years old, we’re only just coming of age. Now listed on #EuroNext, Deezer is a rapidly-growing, cutting-edge player in the music streaming market. If you want an environment where you can make your voice heard and be at the forefront of music and tech, look no further!

We believe music is all about embracing the things that make us different.
Deezer is a vibrant community that celebrates uniqueness, diversity and individuality, and thrives on collaboration.
Our international and passionate teams pride themselves on being at the forefront of the music experience, going beyond streaming and helping the world to Live the Music. We’re constantly evolving alongside our customers, partners, artists and employees — striving to make Deezer the most personal and innovative streaming service in the world.

Ready for an electrifying journey? Apply now and do your part in bringing extraordinary music experiences to people’s lives!
**Join Us**

Job Description

As a Senior Expert Platform Engineer in the DevXP team, you will shape our Internal Developer Platform (IDP). You will drive platform strategy, architecture, and execution to help engineers ship faster, safer, and with higher quality.

A key part of your role will be to actively collect needs and best practices from engineering teams, turning those insights into relevant, well-grounded platform solutions. You will set engineering standards along with senior engineers from the whole company, mentor peers, and bridge platform engineering with AI and cybersecurity.

Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering - Architect and evolve the IDP, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks. Own the long-term technical vision, define platform standards (IaC, GitOps), and select best-in-class tooling across build, deployment, monitoring, and security.

• Developer Experience - Proactively identify and eliminate friction across the software lifecycle. Track DX metrics (DORA, SPACE) and use data to prioritize platform investments. Be the internal advocate for developers.

• AI-Augmented Platform - Integrate AI capabilities into the platform (intelligent code review, anomaly detection, smart test generation). Evaluate and operationalize AI tools (GitHub Copilot, LLM-based assistants) and explore agentic automation to reduce developer toil.

• Security & Compliance - Embed security-by-design into every platform layer: secure CI/CD (SAST, DAST, SCA, secret scanning), supply chain integrity (SLSA, SBOM), and least-privilege access. Lead our journey toward a DevSecOps culture, building the practices, automation, and mindset that will make security a first-class citizen across all engineering teams - an ambition we are actively working toward.

• Reliability & Observability - Define SLOs/SLAs for platform services, ensure full-stack observability, lead incident response, and conduct blameless post-mortems.

• Cross-functional Leadership - Collaborate with Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure, and Security teams. Mentor engineers, represent DevXP in architectural forums, and communicate technical trade-offs to diverse audiences.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

• 8+ years in platform engineering or DevOps, with 3+ years at senior/expert level.

• Track record of operating platforms at scale; fluency with TDD, trunk-based development, and continuous delivery.

Required Skills

• Platform & DevOps - CI/CD (GitHub Actions), GitOps, IaC (Terraform), Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, GCP (GKE)

• Observability - Prometheus, Grafana; SLO/SLI/error budget management.

• AI & Automation - Hands-on integration of AI tools in engineering workflows; MLOps familiarity.

• Leadership - Technical influence without direct authority, mentoring, strong communication.

Nice to Have Skills

• Platform & DevOps - Jenkins, Ansible, Cloud Run), testing strategies, Python/Go/Bash.

• Observability - OpenTelemetry

• Security - DevSecOps pipelines, SAST/DAST/SCA, SBOM, SLSA, policy-as-code (OPA, Kyverno), zero-trust principles.

At Deezer, diversity drives innovation. Whatever makes you uniquely you, your experiences, your way of thinking, your journey, might be exactly what we need.
If this role speaks to you and aligns with your interests and capabilities, even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications listed, please give it a try and tell us more! #BeYou

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