Junior Site Reliability Engineer, Pigment
2-4 days a week in office
Enterprise business planning platform (EMP, CPM)
Posted today
Enterprise business planning platform (EMP, CPM)
201-500 employees
Posted today
2-4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable people and businesses to make better decisions.
Role
Who you are
- More than knowledge of a specific cloud provider, language, or automation framework, we are looking for great engineering skills: the ability to translate product requirements into an elegant and simple architecture, and then make sure our product runs well on it
- We are also looking for engineers who understand the product and the customer's needs in detail and can suggest innovative ideas: in the end, it's all about delivering value to end-users
- Experience as a software engineer & DevOps / SRE
- Experience with a container orchestration platform (Kubernetes is a plus)
- Experience with a public cloud provider, GCP is a plus
- Proven experience in software developments with languages such as C#, Java, C++, Golang, Rust, JavaScript, Python, or Ruby (this list is not exhaustive)
- Experience with observability tools (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger...)
- Great team spirit with a problem-solving attitude
- A good dose of humility and the willingness to grow (no matter your seniority!)
- Fluency in English
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Junior DevOps/SRE profile who will design and implement the Pigment infrastructure for tomorrow
- Pigment is a technically challenging platform
- It calculates and synchronizes large datasets that must be updated in real-time
- Data comes from client models that can be up to billions of rows
- This data can be pivoted, transformed, and aggregated on-demand through our formula engine while rendering live on our front end
- Define and build the infrastructure needed to answer our performance challenges, automate it, and make it scalable. In particular, ensure that the infrastructure scales in and out according to the platform usage
- Secure high availability and redundancy of the Pigment platform
- Ensure that the platform’s performance and correctness are monitored accordingly, spread observability best practices across the engineering team
- Participate in incident response
- Accompany Pigment geographical expansion as the company grows and we sign clients overseas
- Work with our security team on the implementation of their roadmap when related to infrastructure and development pipelines (code repository, credentials management, ...)
- Continuously chase inefficiencies within our development practices and pipelines. Seek improvement and automation wherever possible. Drive change across the software engineering team
- In addition to SRE responsibilities, we expect you to contribute to software development activities. We believe SRE engineers should collaborate closely with software engineers, fostering a shared understanding of day-to-day challenges, rather than operating in separate teams
- Our Engineering team is responsible for developing our SaaS platform and building a comprehensive and user-friendly product
- Pigment engineers participate in the entire application development lifecycle, focusing on design, coding, and keeping the production platform up and running. They can be specialized, but there is no strict separation between the infrastructure, backend, and the frontend
- We value user-centricity and pragmatism: we choose the most relevant tools for the problem we have to solve, understanding the strengths and constraints of each technology
- Our engineering culture also values curiosity, humility, trust, ownership and team spirit
- Technical stack:
- Kubernetes (GKE, hosted on Google Cloud Platform): hosting all our infrastructure components except some PostgreSQL hosts, hosted on Google Cloud SQL
- Terraform: all our infrastructure is managed via this infrastructure as code (creation of GKE clusters, Google Cloud SQL databases, GCS buckets, IAM permissions...)
- Databases: PostgreSQL (CloudSQL and CloudNativePG), SingleStore, ElasticSearch
- RabbitMQ: queuing system
- Temporal.io: workflow automation platform
- Others: ArgoCD, Istio, Vault, Github, Docker (for local development)
- Backend: Microservices written in C# ASP.NET Core 10 (running exclusively on Linux) & Golang
- Frontend: React + Typescript, Jest, Cypress, Vite..
Our take
In an ever-changing world, demand for more effective and accessible planning tools is rising. Pigment is meeting this demand with its business planning platform.
Pigment’s platform is disrupting a market that has long been dominated by generic spreadsheet programs like Excel. Its primary focus lies on forecasting and planning, enabling businesses to model and test outcomes. This is designed to improve the efficacy and reliability of decision making.
Taking on incumbents such as Excel, which boasts around one billion users, is no easy feat. However, Pigment’s innovative forecasting tools, ease-of-use and significant funding should give it a fighting chance in a market that is continuing to make space for disruptors. They have attracted impressive clients including Figma, PayFit, and Gong.
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Insights
83% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2024
$145m
SERIES D
May 2023
$80m
SERIES C
Total funding: $388.9m
Company benefits
- Healthcare including dental
- Brand new offices in the heart of Paris, London (Liverpool Street), New York and Toronto
- One company offsite every year in Paris
- Generous maternity (16 weeks full pay) /paternity leave (5 weeks full pay + 4 weeks half time work but fully paid)
- 50% home work stipend covered by Pigment
- Free Lunches
- Monthly office socials. Quarterly team socials
- Hybrid work policy (40% remote)
- 50% travel paid for
Company values
- Thrive together - We can only win as a team. We are all founders and do the right thing for our peers, Pigment, customers, partners, and the planet
- Never settle - Aim to become the best at what you do by delivering with rigor and ambition every day. Delivering for us means to build a passionate Pigment community
- Go for it - We are biased towards action. Every action leads us to learning and these learnings get us one step closer to our mission
- Be real, be humble - We are generous with our feedback, open to change our views and we approach it with empathy, knowing everyone is trying to do the best for Pigment
Company HQ
Arts-et-MĂ©tiers, Paris, France
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Leadership
Romain Niccoli
(Co-CEO)Previously founded Criteo, where they served as CTO for 11 years. Went onto co-found LESS in 2017. Is an Advisor for Remeniz and Ledger.
Eléonore Crespo
(Co-CEO)Worked at Google for 3 years, first as Product Analyst and then as Financial Analyst. Has been a Board Observer at Slite, Spendesk, and Alan.
People progressing
Tania joined as a CSM and was amongst our first London hires! She quickly impressed and today holds the role of Team Lead for our CSMs in EMEA. She also Co-leads our DEI Council.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Pigment
Tania Pennick (CSM Team Lead, EMEA)
- Company commitments and policy relating to DEI, including commitments regarding Next40
- All Pigmenauts go through annual unconscious bias training
- We have a dedicated employee run DEI Council, and bi-weekly meetings for this team
- We pass our job adverts through gender indexing to ensure they are neutral in content style
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