Engineering Manager – Site Reliability & Observability (x/f/m)

About the Position

Engineering Manager – Site Reliability & Observability (x/f/m)

Unlimited Contract

Engineering

Paris, France

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About Doctolib

At Doctolib, we’re reinventing the daily lives of health professionals and empowering people to live healthier across Europe. More than 3,000 Doctolibers across France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the Netherlands are building a new generation of AI-powered technologies and services, trusted by 580,000 health professionals and over 100 million patients every day. AI is at the heart of how we build and how we work. At Doctolib, AI fluency is a core skill for every team member: we foster a culture leveraging AI to drive efficiency, quality, and impact at scale.

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Responsibilities

Your mission will be to grow and lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers, ensuring Doctolib's platform remains reliable, scalable, and resilient at a European scale across infrastructure, observability, and cross-cutting reliability initiatives. Your team drives reliability standards across 170+ applications, contributing directly to supporting 520,000 health professionals and 90 million patients in their daily healthcare journey.

People Leadership

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of Site Reliability Engineers, supporting their technical development and career progression
• Create a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and psychological safety within the team
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations
• Recruit, onboard, and retain top SRE talent aligned with Doctolib's mission and values

Technical Strategy

• Define and evolve the reliability and observability strategy across the platform, covering infrastructure automation, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
• Drive prioritization and roadmap planning for large-scale reliability initiatives, including SLOs, error budgets, and alerting standards across multiple product teams
• Own the evolution of critical transversal services (e.g., secrets management, infrastructure as code tooling) that support secure, scalable infrastructure management across the organization
• Advocate for and allocate resources toward reducing technical debt and improving developer experience

Operational Excellence

• Own the team's on-call experience and contribute to incident response processes, ensuring sustainable practices and continuous improvement
• Lead postmortem reviews and drive systemic improvements to prevent recurring issues
• Ensure high availability and reliability of the services your team owns

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and architects to align reliability and observability capabilities with product and platform needs
• Represent your team in engineering leadership forums, architectural reviews, and strategic planning sessions
• Foster strong partnerships with software engineering teams to embed reliability practices early in the development lifecycle

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Requirements

Required Skills

• Have at least 5+ years of software engineering or SRE experience, with a strong technical background in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, and/or Kubernetes-based)
• Have 3+ years of engineering management experience, leading technical teams (ideally SRE, platform, or infrastructure teams)
• Have a strong understanding of observability tooling and architecture (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Datadog, Elasticsearch)
• Have experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and secrets management systems
• Have a proven ability to balance technical depth with people leadership, able to mentor engineers, review technical designs, and guide architectural decisions
• Are fluent in English

Nice to Have

• Experience scaling SRE or platform teams in fast-growing, high-traffic environments
• Hands-on experience with backend programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Ruby)
• Experience driving cultural and technical transformations
• Appreciation for working in regulated environments (healthcare, fintech, or similar); at Doctolib, data privacy and compliance are part of every engineering decision

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We Offer

• Free comprehensive health insurance (basic package) for you and your children
• 25 days of paid vacation per year, plus up to 14 days of RTT
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
• Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Lunch vouchers (Swile card) worth 8.50 euros per working day, with 4.50 euros covered by Doctolib
• 50% reimbursement of your public transport subscription
• Parent Care Program: receive one additional month of leave on top of the legal parental leave
• Enrollment in Doctolib's long-term employee value sharing plan called DoctoGrowth
• Relocation support in case of international mobility
• Access to the best AI tools for coding, development, and dedicated training

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About the Company

Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to country and healthcare specialty requirements. Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native. We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here.

Want to learn more about our tech culture and environment? Visit the Doctolib Tech site.

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Our Interview Process

• Recruiter Interview
• Technical SRE Interview (System Design & Architecture)
• Behavioral Interview (Leadership & People Management)
• Engineering Management case study (team scenarios, prioritization, and conflict resolution)
• Manager interview with Senior Engineering Leadership
• At least one reference check

We want your experience to be clear, respectful, and transparent. Learn more about our hiring process on our candidate experience page.

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Job Details

• Position: Permanent
• Tech stack: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS / GCP, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Vault
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Paris, France
• Work Setup: Hybrid (up to 2 remote days per week)
• Start Date: As soon as possible

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We Welcome Everyone

At 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. The 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, or disability.