Senior DevOps Engineer

About this role

<h3>🧡 About Alma</h3> <p>At Alma, we believe sustainable commerce depends on fair, well‑balanced trade. Because finance plays a pivotal role in business, our mission is to put it back in its rightful place - serving merchants and consumers.</p> <p>Our installment and deferred payment solutions help merchants boost sales by 20% or more, increase customer loyalty, and deliver a seamless shopping experience - without encouraging bad debt.</p> <p>As the buy now pay later leader in France and active in 10 European countries, we've empowered over +25,000 merchants and 10 million consumers.</p> <p>With 380+ Almakers and €100M+ ARR, Alma is scaling rapidly across Europe as a member of the Next40, and we're just getting started!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><span class="notion-enable-hover" data-token-index="0">👐 About the team&nbsp;</span></h3> <p>The <strong>Developer Experience (DevX) squad </strong>is<strong> </strong>part or the Engineering’s <strong>Platform Tribe</strong>. The Platform Tribe groups the DevX squad and the Site Reliability Engineering quad. The members of the tribe are responsible for building the foundational infrastructure, security layers, and core systems that empower Alma's entire product and engineering organization to scale reliably.&nbsp;</p> <p>You will join a dedicated squad focused entirely on the daily lives of our engineers: Our mission is to eliminate friction from a developer's machine all the way to production. We build, optimize, and maintain the delivery systems, local development environments, and CI/CD automation that allow our product teams to ship high-quality code safely, frequently, and with absolute confidence.</p> <p>We operate in a highly dynamic, polyglot environment. We are looking for an engineer driven by technical curiosity, who loves exploring new tools and technologies to continuously elevate our engineering standards.</p> <div class="s-whitespace-pre-wrap s-break-words s-font-normal first:s-pt-0 last:s-pb-0 s-py-1 @md:s-pt-2 @md:s-pb-[10px] @md:s-leading-relaxed s-text-base s-leading-relaxed s-text-foreground dark:s-text-foreground-night"><strong>This is a full-time position, based in Paris or fully remote in France.</strong></div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3 class="s-whitespace-pre-wrap s-break-words s-font-normal first:s-pt-0 last:s-pb-0 s-py-1 @md:s-pt-2 @md:s-pb-[10px] @md:s-leading-relaxed s-text-base s-leading-relaxed s-text-foreground dark:s-text-foreground-night">💼&nbsp;<strong class="s-font-semibold s-text-foreground dark:s-text-foreground-night">About the job</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Own and continuously optimize our CI/CD pipelines and delivery workflows</strong>, ensuring fast feedback loops and secure deployments.</li> <li><strong>Build and evolve the local developer experience</strong>, making it seamless for engineers to spin up, test, and debug services locally across a variety of languages and frameworks.</li> <li><strong>Own and maintain part of our cloud infrastructure and container orchestration platforms</strong> using Terraform and Kubernetes. This will also require participating in identifying and solving infrastructure-related production issues and performance troubleshooting, upgrading our platforms for long-term resilience.</li> <li><strong>Be a technical referent and drive engineering standards forward</strong> by acting as a trusted partner for product engineering squads on delivery and infrastructure best practices, sharing expertise and providing guidance.</li> <li><strong>Encourage a culture of technical curiosity</strong> by frequently evaluating, benchmarking, and prototyping emerging technologies to bring the best tool sets to the team and promoting a culture of continuous learning across the org.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><span class="notion-enable-hover" data-token-index="0">🧰 You will work with</span></h3> <p>Python, TypeScript, PHP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GCP, Postgres and Datadog.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><span class="notion-enable-hover" data-token-index="0">🧩 About you</span></h3> <p><strong><span class="notion-enable-hover" data-token-index="0">To succeed in this job</span></strong></p> <ul> <li class="s-break-words s-text-foreground dark:s-text-foreground-night s-text-base s-leading-relaxed">You've built at least 5 years of experience in a relevant role, ideally in DevOps or Platform Engineering.</li> <li class="s-break-words s-text-foreground dark:s-text-foreground-night s-text-base s-leading-relaxed">You take ownership of cross-functional infrastructure initiatives, driving complex projects from design to delivery alongside multiple teams.</li> <li class="s-break-words s-text-foreground dark:s-text-foreground-night s-text-base s-leading-relaxed">You have hands-on experience designing, building, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines end to end (GitHub Actions or equivalent).</li> <li class="s-break-words s-text-foreground dark:s-text-foreground-night s-text-base s-leading-relaxed">You're comfortable building robust automation pipelines and modernizing local development environments.</li> <li>You are fluent in french (primary working language) with a good level of English, for documentation, cross-team exchanges, and technical reading, writing as well as presenting.</li> </ul> <p><strong><span class="notion-enable-hover" data-token-index="0">And it will be nice if you also</span></strong></p> <ul> <li class="s-break-words s-text-foreground dark:s-text-foreground-night s-text-base s-leading-relaxed">Have production-grade proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (not necessarily Terraform) and container orchestration (not necessarily Kubernetes).</li> <li class="s-break-words s-text-foreground dark:s-text-foreground-night s-text-base s-leading-relaxed">Are familiar with an observability and monitoring stack (Datadog, Prometheus, or equivalent).</li> <li class="s-break-words s-text-foreground dark:s-text-foreground-night s-text-base s-leading-relaxed">Have worked with local development envir