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We work in feature teams in an agile environment, while collaborating with product, design, and business teams.\nYou will lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers who are responsible for shaping Doctolib's observability strategy and ensuring our platform remains reliable, debuggable, and scalable. This role sits at the intersection of people management, technical leadership, and strategic planning with a particular focus on building organizational capabilities around logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.\nYour team also owns and operates critical transversal services that enable secure, scalable infrastructure management across the organization, including HashiCorp Vault for secrets management and Terraform Enterprise for infrastructure as code.\nYour responsibilities include but are not limited to:\nPeople Leadership:\nLead, coach, and grow a team of Site Reliability Engineers, supporting their technical development and career progression\n\nCreate a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and psychological safety within the team\n\nConduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations\n\nRecruit, onboard, and retain top SRE talent aligned with Doctolib's mission and values\n\nTechnical Strategy:\nPartner with SREs and senior engineers to define and evolve the observability strategy across the platform, focusing on logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting\n\nOwn the strategy and evolution of critical transversal services including HashiCorp Vault and Terraform Enterprise\n\nDrive prioritization and roadmap planning for large-scale reliability and observability initiatives\n\nEnsure alignment between team objectives and broader engineering and business goals\n\nAdvocate for and allocate resources toward reducing technical debt and improving developer experience\n\nOperational Excellence:\nOwn the team's on-call experience and contribute to the incident response processes, ensuring sustainable practices and continuous improvement\n\nEnsure high availability and reliability of transversal services that are critical to the entire engineering organization\n\nLead postmortem reviews and drive systemic improvements to prevent recurring issues\n\nCross-functional Collaboration:\nWork closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and architects to align observability capabilities with product and platform needs\n\nPartner with security and infrastructure teams to evolve secrets management and IaC practices across the organization\n\nRepresent the OREO team in engineering leadership forums, architectural reviews, and strategic planning sessions\n\nFoster strong partnerships with software engineering teams to improve instrumentation quality and adoption of observability best practices\n\nAbout our tech environment\nOur solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to the country and healthcare specialty requirements. To address these challenges, we are modularizing our platform run in a distributed architecture through reusable components.\n\nOur stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native.\n\nWe leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here and learn about our first AI hackathon here!\n\nWho you are\nBefore you read on - if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to apply.\nYou have at least 5+ years of software engineering or SRE experience, with a strong technical background in cloud-native environments (preferably AWS, GCP, and/or Kubernetes-based)\n\nYou have 3+ years of engineering management experience, leading technical teams (ideally SRE, platform, or infrastructure teams)\n\nYou have deep understanding of observability tooling and architecture (Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Thanos, Datadog)\n\nYou have experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, OpenTofu) and secrets management systems (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)\n\nYou have proven ability to balance technical depth with people leadership, able to mentor engineers, review technical designs, and guide architectural decisions\n\nNow it would be fantastic if you:\nHave experience scaling SRE or platform teams in fast-growing, high-traffic environments\n\nHave background in designing and operating high-scale telemetry pipelines\n\nHave hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault and Terraform Enterprise in production environments\n\nHave hands-on experience with backend programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Ruby)\n\nHave experience driving cultural and technical transformations\n\nWhat we offer\nFree comprehensive health insurance for you and your children\n\nParentCare Program: Enjoy full salary coverage (100%) during your first month of birth leave, and 75% during the second, covered by Doctolib\n\nFree mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care\n\nFor caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support\n\nWork from EU countries and the UK for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy\n\nWork Council subsidy to refund part of sport club membership or creative class\n\nUp to 14 days of RTT\n\nA subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class\n\nLunch voucher with Swile card\n\nThe interview process\n30-min phone screen with a Tech Recruiter\n\n1h30 technical interview (SRE System Design & Architecture)\n\n1h15 behavioral interview (Leadership & People Management)\n\n1h30 Engineering Management case study (team scenarios, prioritization, and conflict resolution)\n\n1h manager interview with Senior Engineering Leadership\n\nAt least one reference check\n\nJob details\nPermanent position\n\nFull-time\n\nBerlin\n\nStart date: as soon as possible\n\nIf you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles!\nAt Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination.\nThe more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability.\nTo ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g. pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process.\nJoin us in building the healthcare we all dream of!\nAll information provided is processed by Doctolib for application management. 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