SRE - DataPlatform
Veepee
Apply to this jobJoin a transversal SRE community embedded in a product-oriented Data Platform team of 40β50 engineers, analysts, and data scientists across France and Spain. You'll drive the reliability and scalability of a next-generation Lakehouse platform β anchored on Trino, Iceberg, and on-prem object storage β while leading the transition from public cloud to a resilient hybrid/on-prem architecture.
π― TASKSΒ
- Own reliability of core data services: Trino, Iceberg, S3 / Ceph, Kafka, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry
- Define and enforce SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and on-call runbooks β solid SRE foundations are non-negotiable
- Build full-stack observability with Prometheus and Grafana: metrics, dashboards, alerting pipelines, and anomaly detection
- Manage and harden PostgreSQL clusters via Patroni for high-availability control-plane services
- Operate and scale Kafka Connect clusters: connector lifecycle, offset management, dead-letter queues, and task rebalancing
- Maintain the Schema Registry as the single source of truth for Avro/Protobuf/JSON schemas β enforce compatibility rules and schema evolution policies
- Monitor consumer lag, connector throughput, and broker health via Prometheus JMX exporters and Grafana dashboards
- Ensure end-to-end data contract integrity between producers and Iceberg/S3 consumers
- Operate production Kubernetes clusters (GKE/EKS + on-prem) β capacity planning, upgrades, PodDisruptionBudgets, resource quotas
- Architect and manage Kube-in-Kube topologies to provide strong tenant isolation for data platform workloads β each team gets a dedicated virtual cluster without the overhead of a full physical cluster
- Automate infrastructure and resource provisioning with Crossplane: define composite resources (XRDs) so data teams can self-serve Kafka topics, Trino namespaces, and S3 buckets through Kubernetes-native APIs
- Maintain GitOps pipelines for platform deployment and configuration drift detection
- Migrate from public cloud data warehouse to VeepeeCloud Iceberg-based lakehouse β managing coexistence, schema evolution, and time-travel
- Architect resilient ingestion, transformation, and serving layers around Trino + S3
- Optimize Trino query performance: memory limits, spilling, cost-based optimizer tuning
- Build agentic self-service tooling so data teams can provision Trino/Iceberg resources and Kafka Connect pipelines autonomously via Crossplane β reducing toil and ops bottlenecks
- Develop FinOps dashboards (compute, storage, query cost) with Grafana and Prometheus-based cost exporters
- Write clear technical documentation, runbooks, and internal ADRs
- Design and implement multi-datacenter strategies across FR1 / NL1 β active-active and active-passive topologies
- Leverage Fast Erasure Coding on object storage (Ceph/S3) to maximize durability with minimal replication overhead
- Ensure data replication consistency across sites for Iceberg table metadata, Trino catalogs, and Schema Registry subjects
- Lead DRP exercises: failover playbooks, RTO/RPO validation, postmortems
Platform Reliability & SRE foundations
Kafka ecosystem β Connect & Schema governance
Kubernetes, Kube-in-Kube & Crossplane
Lakehouse architecture & cloud migration
Agentic & developer enablement
Multi-DC resilience & DRP
π MUST HAVE skills
- Strong experience with Kubernetes in production environments
- Experience with Kube-in-Kube technologies (vCluster or similar)
- Solid understanding of SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets)
- Experience with Prometheus and Grafana
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
- Experience with Crossplane
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows
- Experience with S3 and object storage technologies
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Patroni
- Experience with Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry
- Fluent in English
Must have
π NICE TO HAVE skills
- Experience with multi-datacenter architectures (FR1/NL1)
- Experience designing disaster recovery plans and failover playbooks
- Experience with Fast Erasure Coding (Ceph/S3)
- Experience with Trino, Iceberg, and Lakehouse technologies
- Experience with Airflow
- Experience building agentic self-service platforms
- Knowledge of FinOps and cost optimization practices
- Programming experience in Python, Java, or Go
β BENEFITS
- Variable bonus
- E-learning platform (self-education courses)
- Meetups & conferences (local and international)
- Flexible office β up to 2 days remote
- International teams (France & Spain)
βοΈ RECRUITMENT PROCESS
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1οΈβ£ 30-minute HR Screen with a Veepeeα΅α΅αΆΚ° Recruiter
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2οΈβ£ General Technical exchange
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3οΈβ£ Technical exchange with the manager
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4οΈβ£ Team Interview
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At Veepee we guarantee that you can just be yourself!
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Summary
Ensure reliability, scalability, and automation of data platform services, migration, and multi-DC resilience.
Job title
SRE - DataPlatform
Experience level
professional
Minimum experience
3+ years exp
Industry
software
Location requirements
Remote flexibility with some in-office days, based in Paris; work remotely up to 2 days.
Salary
Not specified
Management role
No
Required skills
Preferred skills
Specializations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
Paris, France