Engineering Manager

Summary

Join BlaBlaCar's Foundations Staff as the Engineering Manager for the Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) team. Ensure the availability and resilience of the data infrastructure by leading a team of engineers managing and evolving database systems. Define and drive the strategy for database reliability, security, and scalability. Foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement. Oversee the health of production data infrastructure, including backup strategies and disaster recovery. Partner with engineering to ensure seamless data system integration. Guide the adoption of best practices in schema design and performance tuning. Support the team's delivery of technical solutions and manage employee career development. This role requires a balance of technical expertise and leadership.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a technical leader or engineering manager, with a background in database reliability, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering
• Strong hands-on knowledge of production-grade databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Cassandra, or other distributed data stores)
• Solid understanding of database performance tuning, schema design, and query optimization
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, observability tooling, and CI/CD practices
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, or Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Comfortable managing on-call rotations, incident response, and implementing postmortem culture
• Ability to guide and grow a team: mentoring engineers, leading technical conversations, and supporting career progression
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering, security, and product teams
• Aligned with our company principle
• Fluency in English

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of DBREs focused on supporting production-grade relational and non-relational databases
• Define and drive the strategy for database reliability, security, and scalability in alignment with engineering and business priorities
• Foster a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement around our database systems and operations
• Oversee the health of our production data infrastructure: backup strategies, replication, disaster recovery, high availability, and monitoring
• Partner with the rest of Engineering to ensure data systems integrate seamlessly into our broader platform
• Guide the adoption of best practices in schema design, query optimization, data migrations, and performance tuning
• Ensuring that the team delivers the technical solutions to achieve the team’s OKRs while matching our standard of quality
• Support career development, performance management, and hiring for the DBRE team

Benefits

• Full remote possible in the country of employment
• 4 additional weeks parental leave 100% paid
• Financial support for home office equipment
• 25 days holiday per year + RTT
• Local meal plan policies (Swile card in France)
• 50% transportation paid in France (Forfait Mobilité Durable)
• Relocation package and visa support
• Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides
• Personal growth via trainings, mentorship, and internal mobility programs
• Employee Stock Ownership plan
• Regular team building events
• Mental health support through Moka.care