Database Reliability Engineer

Job Description

PayFit simplifies payroll management and HR processes for SMBs. PayFit is an automated SaaS solution to help business owners and HR professionals save time and money allowing them to refocus on what really matters: their employees. Since 2015, we have set ourselves a mission to support the digital transformation of HR management through our ever growing range of product features and services. We have a strong presence in France and have been quickly growing in Germany, Spain and in the UK. With 7,000 customers in 4 countries, we are one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in Europe.

Today, we are more than 900 employees at PayFit and we all share four core values:

• Care for each other

• Always stay humble

• Strive for excellence

• Live and work with passion

We are committed to a culture of inclusion and an environment that enables fulfillment in freedom & responsibility.

A brief overview of the Storage Hub Team

Our main mission is to power PayFit’s growth by providing a trusted platform (reliable and efficient) allowing event-sourcing thanks to an event-store and a data bus, the future standard of PayFit.

This involves building core tools used throughout the whole engineering organization and collaborating closely with teams to take the best out of the platform.

💡 The team’s top priority is focused on enabling the different teams of payfit to consume this platform in self-service so that they can focus on the business aspects.

💡 The team is also responsible for providing services that increase security, reliability, data ownership, ease of use, scalability, and many other aspects of data usage at Payfit.

A brief overview of our day-to-day stack:

• Technical stack: Node.js, TypeScript, Golang, Python, React, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, SAM, CloudFormation, Helm, Dynamodb, serverless, …

• Code collaboration: GitHub, CircleCI

• Project management and knowledge: JIRA, Notion, Whimsical, Miro, Google Docs

• Communication: Slack, Zoom

What will be your role?

Get onboard of the PayFit rocket by joining our Storage Hub team as a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE).

Your mission will be to contribute to build this platform and scale our technical vision up while always bringing more value to our product.

You will be responsible for:

• Making technical and functional choices. 

• Help us build a stable, scalable, easy-to-use platform for our developers. Ensuring data security, governance and reliability, 

• Accompany the future users of this platform in order to guarantee maximum ease of use, to help them implement their project on it and to pass on the message of data know-how.

• Be the referent of the Storage-Hub infrastructure and its deployment on AWS after the team and external requesters

• Be in constant contact with the future users of this platform to ensure maximum ease of use, and you will have an interest in Architecture, be familiar with Event-Sourcing and understand the capabilities, advantages and disadvantages of this type of architecture.

• Mentoring fellow engineers

This job has been tailored for you if you have the following qualities

• You have a solid understanding of Kubernetes and AWS (SAM, Cloudformation, …) or want to learn more about it.

• You love automating infrastructure and workloads deployments.

• You enjoy sharing and collaborating with other teams to promote best practices and build reliable and resilient services.

We would be even more impressed if you have:

• You are experienced designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems

• You have a systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive

• You master kafka in an event-sourcing context (distributed PubSub messaging, Replay, KSQL, …)

Hiring process

1️⃣ HR Telephone interview – 30 minutes

2️⃣ Meet Stephen, Team Leader: (Introductions to the project, Systems Design Interview) – 1 hour

3️⃣ Meet Platform Team: Technical interview (introductions, coding, questions) – 45 minutes 

4️⃣ Meet Future Colleagues: Formal interview (introductions, questions) – 45 minutes 

5️⃣ Meet Damian, Tribe Director – 30 minutes

6️⃣ Background check to verify your identity, diploma and past professional experience in the context of your ISO27001 certification