Operations Engineer - Elasticsearch

  • Full-time

Company Description

BlaBlaCar is the global leader in long-distance carpooling. We are an innovative and fast-growing company building a unique community of members to transform the way people travel!

For more information about us, please visit www.BlaBlaCar.com/DreamJobs

Job Description

Why join us?

We need you to make the Trip squad fully autonomous to Build, Own and Run the Trip Search service.

What you will directly contribute to:

  • Maintain and proactively improve our elasticsearch cluster through topology, shared distribution, replicats number, nodes types, traffic projections, etc. As part of the stack owned by the trip squad, you will be the ultimate owner of its robustness, scalability and reliability;

  • Operate team containers (rocket, kubernetes), the onboarding to techno will be done by our ops team;

  • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues;

  • Collaborate with Architects, Ops, Data, and Infrastructure team on designing scalable and highly available Application Platform;

  • Improve your ES and Ops skills;

  • Participation in on-call rotation.

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

  • Valuable experience as a System Admin;

  • Excellent proficiency in ES - you already had the opportunity to operate a large cluster;

  • Having worked with PostgreSQL, Java and geo ( data/tools ) would be a plus;

  • Full-stack mindset and willingness to learn and use new technos;

  • Implacable willingness to build massive, solid and reliable applications that scale;

  • Assertive contribution to the decision making process and team roadmap;

  • Fun team spirit that embraces the power that agile methods assigns to everyone;

  • Firm belief that “Done is better than perfect” and that “The member is the boss” are compelling values;

  • Benevolent Teammate and fun attitude;

  • Good proficiency in English (French is a plus).

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role:

  • Start: As soon as you are ready!
  • Location: Paris
  • Contract: Long-term contract (CDI)
  • Compensation: Competitive package based on experience

What we offer all of our employees:

  • A start-up spirit that fosters agility, teamwork and impact;
  • Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment;
  • Recurring access to technical conferences all over the world;
  • Team Hackathons, Coding Nights;
  • The choice between the latest Mac or PC equipment;
  • An inspiring working environment including state-of-the-art office spaces;
  • Free carpooling to live our value “Think it. Build it. Use it.”;
  • Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend;
  • Weekly BlaBlaTalks when we learn from each other;
  • And many more benefits - check them out on BlaBlaCar.com/dreamjobs.

What is next?

If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please send your CV (in English and PDF format) and answer the questions asked during the application process.

Please note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and all your information will be kept confidential.

You can expect us to review your application within the following 2 weeks. If your application fits our requirements, we will invite you for a phone interview, a test followed by two in-house interview sessions.