Engineering Manager, BlaBlaCar
DBRE
+ Employee Stock Ownership plan
More information about location
Online marketplace for carpooling and bus services
Open for applications
Online marketplace for carpooling and bus services
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Employee Stock Ownership plan
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
BlaBlaCar's mission is to leverage technology to fill empty seats on the road, connecting members looking to carpool or to travel by bus, and making travel more affordable, sociable and convenient.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- Part of the Foundations Staff, as the Engineering Manager for our Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) team, your mission is to ensure the availability, and resilience of our data infrastructure
- You will lead a team of engineers focused on managing and evolving our database systems, enabling secure, scalable, and observable data services that empower engineering teams to build confidently
- Your role will balance technical depth with leadership, ensuring operational excellence while guiding strategic improvements in how we store, access, and protect data
- 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
Application process
- A 45-min video-call with Chloé, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
- A 60-min video-call with Camille & Maxime to discuss your background and management skills
- A 45-min video-call with Florent to evaluate your technical skills
- A 30-min video-call with Nicolas our CTO to get a wider vision of the department and its strategy
Our take
Travelling can be an expensive process, with public transport and petrol costs forming a significant contribution towards this. Many people choose to purchase last-minute bus tickets or travel in carpools to minimize costs and carbon emissions, but these opportunities can be difficult to find and there is no framework to locate them and assess their legitimacy.
BlaBlaCar provides an online marketplace for connecting travelers with carpools and spare seats on buses in order to provide a budget alternative to traditional means of travel. Drivers can sign up to provide a carpool service, and BlaBlaCar verifies the identity and reviews of both carpool drivers and bus companies to ensure that the budget service is fully regulated.
Budget alternatives to traditional public transport and driving routes are nothing new, but BlaBlaCar has taken a unique approach by greatly minimizing costs and encouraging efficiency by providing a regulated framework for carpooling. Furthermore, the company provides last-minute and predetermined bus seats, reducing costs for users whilst preventing buses from travelling wastefully with empty seats. It's this unique business model which helped spring BlaBlaCar into profitability in 2022, and a 2024 debt funding round is being used to acquire other businesses and expand its reach.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2021
$115m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2018
$113.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $564.5m
Company benefits
- Tailor-made remote policy
- A fair & competitive salary package
- Employee Stock Ownership plan
- Holidays: 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days
- Relocation package and visa sponsorship to welcome you wherever you are currently based
- Parental policy (we are a signatory of the #ParentalAct)
- Trainings & career development programs
- Free carpooling & bus rides wherever whenever
Company HQ
Oberkampf, Paris, France
Leadership
Frédéric Mazzella
(President)Experienced as investor and advisor for various startups in the travel industry. Co-founded BlaBlaCar in 2006 as President.
Nicolas Brusson
(CEO)Experienced as investor for multiple companies such as Deliveroo and Stripe. Board Member of Fondation Pour l'Audition. Co-founded BlaBlaCar as CEO in 2016.
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