Site Reliability Engineer, Criteo
Core Analytics Infrastructure
+ Potential for equity depending on role and level
Global commerce media platform
Be an early applicant
Global commerce media platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Potential for equity depending on role and level
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring richer experiences to every consumer by powering the world’s marketers and media owners with trusted and impactful advertising.
Role
Who you are
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years in backend engineering, SRE, DevOps, or distributed systems
- Strong coding skills in Scala, Java, or another statically typed language; scripting experience in Python or Ruby
- Deep understanding of distributed systems: design, tuning, scalability, reliability
- Experience with analytic databases and concepts such as query optimization, concurrent data access, and large-scale storage
- Solid experience with Linux/UNIX environments
- Hands-on knowledge of container technologies (Docker) and orchestration systems (Mesos, Kubernetes)
- Strong SRE mindset: passion for automation, observability, reliability, documentation, and reducing toil
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and infra-as-code
- Excellent communicator—able to explain complex systems clearly and collaboratively
- Team player with a proactive mindset
- Comfortable working in high-scale environments and taking ownership of complex problems
- Willingness to join the team’s on-call rotation
- We acknowledge that many candidates may not meet every single role requirement listed above. If your experience looks a little different from our requirements but you believe that you can still bring value to the role, we’d love to see your application!
What the job involves
- The Platform Core group at Criteo is composed of seven agile, human-sized teams providing the foundational platform and systems powering all Criteo products
- Within this group, the Analytics Infrastructure team builds and operates the distributed, multi-datacenter analytic data stores and platforms enabling interactive querying, exploration, and large-scale data processing for internal and external use cases
- You will join a highly skilled engineering environment managing some of the largest analytical systems in Europe, supporting massive data volumes and high concurrency across hundreds of services and applications
- Design, build, and evolve multi-datacenter, large-scale analytic systems focusing on performance, scalability, and resilience
- Operate and improve core analytical data stores: Vertica, Presto, Druid, Tableau, and related systems
- Ensure high reliability and low latency for systems accessed by diverse internal and external clients
- Build and maintain automation stacks end-to-end using tools such as Chef, Mesos, Docker, Kubernetes
- Develop internal management, deployment, and monitoring tools, primarily in Scala, with opportunities to use Python or Ruby
- Enhance self-service capabilities to empower engineering teams while maintaining high operational standards
- Own the full lifecycle of reliability: monitoring, troubleshooting, on-call rotation, incident management, root cause analysis, and long-term fixes
- Define and implement best practices for observability, automation, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, and cost/performance optimization
- Drive technical innovation, migrations (including to Kubernetes), and reliability improvements across platform components
- Partner with product teams, data stakeholders, and platform engineers to ensure consistency, usability, and performance
- Share technical vision, contribute architectural proposals, and influence system evolution across the organization
- Document processes and systems extensively to improve onboarding and daily operations
Our take
Commerce marketing is a huge business with billions of pounds spent every year on adverts. Companies that help businesses create and deliver more targeted adverts can command a lot of value. Criteo is one company operating in this space.
Criteo is a personalized retargeting company connects 22,000+ marketers and media owners through its Commerce Media Platform, delivering richer consumer experiences. Criteo uses machine-learning technology and data to drive performance, helping marketers and media owners reach their goals.
As marketers are increasingly looking for commerce media solutions, Criteo is operating in a sought-after space. Further, around 73% of media owners seek to optimise media performance as a way to both generate awareness and drive revenue, meaning the company has a significant potential client base. Criteo has continued to make headway here, driving 5 billion ads per day, and is well set to see further adoption of its platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2012
$38.6m
SERIES D
May 2010
$7m
SERIES C
Total funding: $59.6m
Company benefits
- Flexible Work and WFH Opportunities
- Learning & Development
- Best-in-Class Health and Wellbeing Benefits & Perks Across Regions
Company HQ
New Athens, Paris, France
Leadership
Megan Clarken
(CEO, not founder)Held multiple senior-level roles at Nielson, having joined as a Product Specialist and being promoted to Chief Commercial Officer.
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