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You are comfortable going beyond simply maintaining systems: you understand how they work, how they fail, how to scale them, and how to design them to remain reliable as the company grows.\nYou’ll be the technical leader of a new squad, combining hands-on expertise with the ability to build strong engineering practices and grow a team over time.\nMust Have\nStrong hands-on experience as a DBA, Database Engineer or similar, with solid expertise in PostgreSQL.\nProduction experience with ClickHouse or another complex database/data platform.\nExperience operating and maintaining databases at scale, including upgrades, migrations, replication, backups, recovery and performance tuning.\nStrong understanding of high availability and reliability for stateful systems: failover, redundancy, replication, disaster recovery and minimizing or eliminating downtime during maintenance.\nGood understanding of distributed systems, including consistency, fault tolerance, replication and the challenges of operating stateful services at scale.\nExperience working with on-premise infrastructure and bare-metal environments. You are comfortable operating outside of a public-cloud-only environment.\nStrong system design skills and the ability to make pragmatic technical decisions around scalability, reliability and performance.\nExperience collaborating closely with software development teams, understanding their requirements and helping them build reliable solutions around databases and stateful services.\nExperience leading or mentoring engineers, or the demonstrated ability to grow into a technical leadership role. We care more about your technical depth and ownership than the number of years you've spent in a Lead title.\nStrong hands-on mindset: you enjoy getting into the technical details and solving complex problems yourself rather than operating only at a managerial level.\nFluent English, both written and spoken. French or other languages are a plus.\nNice to Have\nExperience with some of the following:\nKafka or Redpanda and event-streaming infrastructure.\nRabbitMQ and message-broker infrastructure.\nRedis and distributed caching.\nOther database technologies such as Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB.\nAdvanced Linux systems administration, including processes, storage, networking and troubleshooting.\nObservability and monitoring of stateful systems.\nCapacity planning, performance analysis and load testing.\nInfrastructure automation and configuration management.\nIncident management, root-cause analysis and post-mortem practices.\nExperience building a new engineering team or squad from the ground up\nAbout You\nYou take ownership. When you see a reliability or scalability problem, you don’t wait for someone else to solve it.\nYou are genuinely technical. You like understanding how things work under the hood and are comfortable diving deep when something breaks.\nYou think in systems. You understand that databases don't operate in isolation and enjoy working across infrastructure, networking, SRE and development teams.\nYou care about reliability. For you, a successful system is one that can be maintained, upgraded and scaled without putting the business at risk.\nYou are pragmatic. You can balance technical excellence with business needs and make sensible trade-offs in complex environments.\nYou are curious and self-driven. You learn by doing, investigate unfamiliar technologies and are comfortable figuring things out independently.\nYou enjoy building. This is a new squad, and you’ll have the opportunity to shape its technical practices, ways of working and the team as it grows.\nYou lead through expertise and context. You don't need a title to take the lead, and you know how to bring others along when solving difficult technical problems.\nYou communicate clearly. You can explain complex technical topics to engineers and non-specialists alike and build strong relationships with the teams relying on your services.\nWhy join us\nOwn critical infrastructure: your work will directly impact the reliability and scalability of Diabolocom’s platform.\nSolve complex technical challenges: work with large-scale databases and stateful services, including PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Kafka and Redis.\nBuild from the ground up: shape a new squad, its technical practices and its culture as the team grows.\nStay hands-on: tackle challenging infrastructure problems while having a real technical impact.\nWork across teams: collaborate closely with Engineering, SRE and Infrastructure to build reliable systems at scale.\nRecruitment Process\nIntroductory call with Jade - 30 minGet to know each other and discuss your background.\n\nInterview with Sergey, CTO - 1 hourDiscuss your technical background, skills and knowledge.\n\nOn-site System Design interview with Sergey, CTO - 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