Platform Engineer

About

Equativ is an independent ad tech company offering an advertising monetization platform for the most important websites in the world.

Our objective? Disrupt the digital advertising industry through high-performance solutions, innovative formats, and exceptional quality.

Based in the heart of Paris (IXᵉ), and NYC (Midtown), the company continues to expand internationally with offices in locations including Singapore, Dubai, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Montreal, London, and Tokyo). We have been recognized in the "Champions de la Croissance" rankings by Les Echos, the"Fast 500 EMEA" by Deloitte, and were selected as a part of the “French Tech Next40” in 2024.

Our pride? A team of over 700 employees who flourish through a corporate culture advocating ownership and who live through 3 essential values: Be brave, Be thoughtful, Be together.

Job Description

👫 About the team

At Equativ, we’re on a mission to develop advertising technologies that empower our customers to reach their digital business goals. This means that we rely on massively scalable, widely distributed, highly available, and efficient software systems; the platform deals with over 3 million requests per second (+250 billion/day) managed by 3,000 servers with less than 250ms response time.

Our innovation team based in Paris, Nantes, Bordeaux, Limoges, Krakow and Berlin is composed of 150+ straightforward and energetic engineers working in an Agile environment and ready to tackle the most complex technical challenges.

Your mission 👇

Within infrastructure BU you will join the Platform Services department that strives to design and deploy self-serve tooling to empower our R&D team.

As a member of our core platform team, you will collaborate with R&D teams (developers, product, architecture and infrastructure) in order to improve the platform efficiency and reliability.

What you will do ✏️

As a Core Platform engineer, your key responsibilities will be:

- setup and maintain a healthy and well monitored platform

- setup applications and tools around the platform to best serve the R&D needs (with a self-service approach)

- provide architecture insights in order to help other R&D members designing reliable and efficient applications hosted on our platform

Our tech stack is composed of:

K8S platform:

- Rancher and GKE/EKS

- Calico (with more modern CNI in mind such as Cilium)

- argo-proj tools (argo-cd, argo-rollouts, argo-workflows)

- cert-manager / external-dns / external-secrets

Monitoring/Alerting:

- Prometheus / Thanos / Grafana / Alertmanager

Tooling:

- Gitlab

- Ansible/AWX

- Terraform

Cloud Providers:

- GCP / AWS

About you 👋

- Master degree in Computer science or similar field of study

- 3+ years of System or Software Engineering experience ideally in the web industry

- Fluent with DevOps practices

- Experience in: Kubernetes administration (CNI,...), CI/CD pipelines, Monitoring and alerting

- Experience working with IaC (Ansible, Terraform, GitOps, …)

- Autonomous and innovative mindset

- Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English

Nice to have:

- Experience with troubleshooting live incidents and incident management

- Experience in software development (Go, Python or equivalent)

- Experience in working with high scale infrastructure

How you'll grow 🚀 

Within 1 month:

- You'll be just finishing your onboarding

- You'll probably have tackled a few small tasks with your peers

Within 4 months:

- You'll be trusted to endorse weekly run duty shift 

- You'll be assigned to minor tasks to ramp up on our stacks and processes

Within 9 months:

- You'll be leading critical projects

- You'll be evolving in our technical architecture discussions

- You’ll start proposing future improvements for our high scale platform

👋 About us 

Equativ, a leading independent ad platform, brings scale and simplicity to digital advertising.

Following its recent merger with Sharethrough and the acquisition of Kamino Retail, advertisers, media owners, and technology partners rely on Equativ’s advanced SSP, curation, and retail media services and technology to achieve maximum business outcomes.

With a focus on privacy-first programmatic video, CTV, and data-driven solutions, Equativ enables clients to activate across the digital ecosystem while protecting consumer privacy.

The company’s global expertise is also backed by a team of over 750 employees across 19 countries.

As a proud recipient of the HappyIndex@Work label, Equativ is committed to providing a dynamic, flexible workplace where employees thrive, grow, and excel in both their professional and personal lives.

Come and lead the charge with us in building a transparent ecosystem based on quality!

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Equativ is an equal opportunity employer. Equal access to employment, services, and programs are available to everyone, regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you require reasonable accommodation throughout the application and/or interview process, please contact the recruitment team at ta-team@equativ.com

Additional Information

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