Senior Data Reliability Engineer (M/W)

About

Founded in France in 2013, ManoMano is the leading online marketplace for DIY, home, and gardening products. Co-founded by Christian Raisson and Philippe de Chanville, ManoMano, bringing together more than 2,600 merchants, offers the largest online offering of DIY and gardening products, with over 7.5 million items. ManoMano currently employs 600 people and operates in six markets (France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom).

In 2019, ManoMano launched ManoManoPro, a unique platform designed to make life easier for construction professionals. In a market that is still largely undigitalized and with significant potential in Europe, ManoManoPro aims to revolutionize the purchasing process for professionals. It is now launched in our six European countries.

Proud to have been part of the Next40 (Top 40 French startups) since 2019, ManoMano aims to reinvent the DIY, gardening, and home improvement experience by offering a unique solution for easy access to innovative products and services online.

Joining ManoMano is also, and above all, a fantastic human adventure where projects and values ​​(ingenuity, boldness, and responsibility) are supported by the individual skills of each individual.

Their blog: https://medium.com/manomano-tech

Job Description

In less than a decade, ManoMano has become a key player in the home improvement and renovation sector.

Launched in 2013, ManoMano is the reference online marketplace for DIY, home improvement and gardening. Co-founded by Philippe de Chanville and Christian Raisson, ManoMano brings together the largest offer of DIY & gardening online products: electricity, plumbing, hardware, frames, indoor and outdoor furniture, tools, etc. With more than 2 600 seller partners and 7,5 million products, ManoMano currently employs 600 people and operates in 6 markets (France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom).

Motivated by the prospect of improving the living environment of their customers and convinced of the importance of the home market for sustainable consumption habits, the ManoMano teams want to help write a new page in their industry, which is struggling to reform itself. ManoMano brings to a highly technical world the power of its sector expertise, combined with that of data and digital in all its dimensions, to offer our customers easy access to innovative advice, products and services 100% online.

The ambition of the Founders and, above all, of Manas & Manos? To accompany this sector transformation with a strong culture of boldness, in an ingenious and frugal organization that places people and teams at the heart of the company's development.

The Platform team is part of the Platform & Security Department. Our mission statement is “Providing business value should be as easy as wanting to”. The mission of the Platform team is to enable ManoMano to sustain and accelerate its business. We aim to offer the best digital platform: a resilient, safe, scalable, sustainable & product-oriented. We bring our expertise and excellence to help the whole organization deliver its daily challenges and innovate for tomorrow.

As a Data Reliability Engineer, your missions will be to build and operate systems in a challenging way:

  • Design, build, and maintain continuously our data infrastructure to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance. Be a strong stakeholder of building a platform-on-demand.

  • Monitor and troubleshoot issues with data systems, and implement solutions to prevent future problems.

  • Develop and maintain documentation for data systems and processes.

  • Lead and organize build project with the Platform manager:
    • define target and roadmap with the support of the architects and the key engineers,

    • make architecture choices,

    • prioritize technical tasks,

    • help teams to reach objectives

  • Evangelize good practices and participate in building a true tech community.

  • Challenge organization and bring solutions to improve ourselves


Which skills we expect:

Soft skills:

  • Be bold, take initiatives, analyze the organization and problems within the Tech department.

  • Ingenious, curious, able to propose solutions.

  • Respectful, able to communicate, able to pass on (training, coaching, mentoring), able to evangelize good practices linked to data and the platform as a product.


Hard skills:

  • Strong expertise in large-scale and resilient data infrastructure (databases and queueing) and DevOps tooling and infra automation language.

  • Technologies requirements :
    • SQL:
      • Strong knowledge of SQL for querying and managing databases

      • Skills in optimizing database performance through indexing, query optimization, and resource management

    • DBMS:
      • PostgreSQL

      • MySQL

      • NoSQL database is a plus

    • Event systems:
      • Kafka

      • RabbitMQ knowledge is a plus

    • Backup and Recovery: Understanding of backup strategies and recovery techniques to ensure data integrity

    • Security : Knowledge of database security best practices, including user access controls and encryption

    • Monitoring management skills: SLO/SLA, define metrics to measure the impact of a new feature, …

    • Automation: proficiency in scripting languages (like Python, Bash) and IaC tools (Terraform) for automation of tasks

    • Quality/Testing: know best practices in terms of quality & testing

    • Knowledge of cloud-based database solutions (AWS RDS, Google Cloud SQL..)

  • Knowledge of Kubernetes is a plus


Others:

  • Graduated from an engineering school or equivalent

  • 5+ year experience in web

  • Fluent in English (verbal and written), French or Spanish are a plus

  • Good understanding of ops technologies


We do in ManoMano:

  • Database Management Systems: MySQL, PostgreSQL with AWS RDS Aurora

  • Software craftsmanship: clean code, testing, peer programming, code review…

  • Devops: IAC (Terraform), CI/CD (Gitlab CI)

  • Language/Framework : React, PHP/Symfony, Java; Kotlin, SpringBoot, Gradle, Python, Go, NodeJS, Typescript

  • Tools : Google Workspace, Slack, Confluence, Miro, JIRA…

  • Monitoring and Observability : Datadog

Additional Information

  • Contract Type: Full-Time
  • Location: Barcelona
  • Education Level: Master's Degree
  • Experience: > 4 years
  • Possible partial remote