Senior Platform Engineer (Virtualization)

About

🌱 Brevo helps businesses fully cultivate more meaningful long-term customer relationships to empower them to grow and realize their most ambitious dreams.

Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, is the leading customer relationship management (CRM) suite designed to fully cultivate long-term customer relationships and to empower businesses to expand in a fast changing digital world. With Brevo, businesses have a unified view of the customer journey in one easy-to-use platform thanks to intuitive and scalable marketing and CRM tools such as Email, SMS, WhatsApp, Chat, Marketing Automation, Meetings, and much more.

Today, more than 500k users around the world count on Brevo to power their sales and marketing engines, with more than 3.5 millions emails sent every day from our platform.

They have a team of more than 750+ employees representing over 67 nationalities spread across 9 offices located in Paris, Berlin, Sofia, Wien, Noida, Bengaluru, Toronto, Seattle and New York. This diversity is one of their greatest strengths, creating an environment that is geared towards learning and collaboration to find the best solution to any problem.

At Brevo, you’ll find:

  • A culture based on caring, diversity, challenges, and strong collaboration

  • A progressive and happy working environment

  • International team building events (last year was in Marrakech)

    *A state-of-the-art office in the heart of Paris OR Berlin OR Sofia OR Noida OR Bengaluru OR Austin

Brevo is the product of the diversity in terms of backgrounds, nationalities, gender and disability. They are committed to the integration of people with special conditions, and they process all applications in accordance with main principles of non-discrimination.

Job Description

Brevo is the leading and fast-growing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) suite designed to enable millions of organizations to connect with people using technology for their success. Our platform gives businesses a unified view of the entire customer journey, empowering them to grow with intuitive marketing and sales tools, including Marketing Automation, Email, SMS, WhatsApp, Chat, and much more. Today, more than 500,000 businesses across 180 countries, including Louis Vuitton, Carrefour, eBay, and Michelin, trust Brevo’s reliable technology and 75+ integrations to deliver unparalleled customer experiences, reduce costs, and drive sales. Brevo reached €142M ARR in 2023 (40% growth year on year) and has close to 1,000 employees globally.

We seek an experienced Senior Orchestration Platform Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining infrastructures focusing on virtualization engines. You will be crucial in managing our Platform architecture with a reliable and cost-effective approach to host our Brevo Platform products into this new architecture on top of our baremetal hosting provider (OVH).

As a Senior Orchestration Platform Engineer specialized into virtualization engines, you will:

  • Architect, build and maintain scalable and efficient virtualization platform such as KubeVirt, Harvester, KVM
  • Architect, build and maintain the orchestration stack for virtualization provisioning, failure autoremediation and capacity planning through Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Jenkins
  • Monitor and optimize the performance to ensure high availability and reliability using Fluentd, Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Contribute to the mentorship, the internal product roadmap definition, the backlog refinement, architecture and implementation review inside the Orchestration team.
  • Manage and maintain capacity planning for the production grade virtualization product
  • Work as a cornerstone between other Platform teams and other divisions to understand virtualization requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
  • Implement automation for deployment pipelines to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
  • Diagnose and resolve orchestration issues, ensuring minimal disruption to services.
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation of architecture, processes, and procedures.

    • What will contribute to your success:

  • Installation, setup & configuration of high availability, secure, and resilient hosting facilities in production environments 24/7.
  • Strong experience in open-sourced Virtualization products (installation, configuration, performance tuning, and monitoring)
  • Strong experience with linux environments on baremetal machines like OVH offers
  • Strong experience in  network backbone fine tuning and operations (IPAM, BGP, NAT, …)t
  • Strong experience using local and distributed storage for virtualization engine (storage pool and storage volume paradigms such as with ZFS, Longhorn or CephFS)
  • Previous experience in large scaled infrastructures including > 1000 VMs & > 10000 containers
  • Proficient with CI/CD pipelines for Platform products
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical and organizational skills.
  • Experience with Cloud native orchestration platforms like Containers and Kubernetes 
  • Experience in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or similar for automation tasks
  • Experience in hybrid, on-premise and/or cloud-based architectures and services
  • Experience in building a Platform as an internal Product
  • Experience with workload orchestration such as ArgoCD or Flux is a plus

    • What we offer

  • A unique opportunity to join an international and collaborative scale-up environment in a hyper-growth context
  • Meal vouchers - Swile (12,5 € per day)
  • Excellent private health care, of which 70% is covered by the company
  • RTT
  • Bi-annual global company offsite; inter-office trips (when the current sanitary situation permits)
  • Work's council benefits (Leeto)
  • Social, green and rainbow alliance committees to take care of environmental and social matters
  • Several services related to prevention, health and personal and professional well-being on Welii platform
  • Very competitive referral program
  • Second parent leave: 1 month of fully paid leave
  • Kids leave: additional time off if your children are sick and need you
  • English and French classes, and over 155000 courses available on Udemy
  • Budget to support your workspace at home
  • A modern office in a central location with free fruits, drinks & lots of fun activities
  • Relocation package and visa sponsorship for international talents
  • ...and more!

    • Meet us

  • A call with the Talent Acquisition team 
  • An interview with the Platform Orchestration Manager
  • An interview with one of Platform System team member
  • Last interview with the VP of Platform

    • Brevo puts diversity and inclusion at the heart of its values. We examine all applications with treatment based on equal skills and applying the principles of non-discrimination. 

    Brevo values work-life balance and offers flexible working hours and remote work. Most of our teams will be working mostly remotely and others will follow a hybrid model depending on the nature of the job. This policy is based on a mutual understanding between the Head of, Managers, and Team Members.

    Additional Information

    • Contract Type: Full-Time
    • Location: Paris
    • Possible partial remote
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