Site Reliability Engineering Manager

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.

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.

As the buy now pay later leader in France and active in 10 European countries, we’ve empowered over 21,000 merchants and 8 million consumers.

With 360+ Almakers and €100M+ ARR, Alma is scaling rapidly across Europe—and we’re just getting started.

Alma is the company for you if are looking for:

Collective intelligence is the driving force behind Alma: we are looking for open-minded, curious, and ambitious people who want to actively participate in this exponential growth.

To continue to deliver an optimal purchasing experience and absolute ease of use, all teams at Alma (Tech, Product, Sales, Operations, Data, Risk, Finance, Compliance, Legal, Marketing and People) will strengthen their members to maintain the highest standards of quality and trust while pushing these innovations at Alma’s pace.

 

YOUR MISSIONS

As part of our Product and Engineering department, you’ll be a part of the Platform tribe and manage a talented group of 4 SREs. Together, you’ll define and implement the company’s cloud infrastructure, ensuring our systems operate efficiently and reliably.

Currently, our main focuses are DRP, monitoring, SLOs and resiliency with multi-region setup.

What is expected of you:

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers to ensure high performance, growth, and engagement
• Build and scale the SRE team, define hiring strategy and conduct technical interviews
• Supporting and guiding SREs through knowledge-sharing and collaboration, fostering continuous improvement across the team
• Organize and prioritize SRE roadmaps to ensure that the infrastructure is aligned with customer needs (internal and external) (with Alma’s goals ?)
• Interact with stakeholders and senior management, ensuring alignment and effective communication on key initiatives
• Promote the team’s work and efforts in the engineering department
• Manage and operate platform budgets and third-party contracts
• Promote automation and SRE best practices to optimize operational efficiency

ABOUT YOU

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with public clouds or Kubernetes
• 2+ years of relevant work experience with managing or mentoring remote engineers
• You also have experience in project management, enabling you to oversee and drive initiatives from planning to successful delivery
• Strong presentation and communication skills to collaborate with different teams and share problems and solutions effectively
• Experience in operating and promoting monitoring tools and reliability frameworks for an engineering department
• Practice of Infrastructure as code
• Solid understanding of incident management and ability to work effectively during critical incidents
• Practice of English

OUR TECHNICAL STACK

• Cloud providers: GCP, CloudFlare, AWS
• Backend: Python + FastAPI and Flask
• Frontend: React / Typescript
• Databases technologies: PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery
• Log and error management: Datadog, Sentry
• CI/CD: Github Actions, Docker
• Monitoring: Datadog
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

OUR VALUES

• Raise the bar
• Do the right thing
• Test, Learn, Repeat
• Make it happen
• Lead with humility

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

At Alma, we're committed to fostering an environment where diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values. Our goal is to attract and build a diverse, equal and inclusive team, where everyone feels welcome.

As an equal opportunities employer we make sure the application process and our workplace is for everyone.