Senior SRE, Prose
DevOps Engineer
€70-75k
+ Variable bonus up to 10% based on company and individual performance
Personalized hair care
Be an early applicant
Personalized hair care
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
€70-75k
+ Variable bonus up to 10% based on company and individual performance
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create haircare that’s one-in-a-million.
Role
Who you are
- If you are passionate about technical leadership, operational excellence, and reducing technical debt, we’d love to hear from you
- Curious and eager to stay up to date with new technologies
- Open to discussion, collaboration, and constructive challenges
- A clear communicator who can explain complex topics simply across teams
- Analytical and able to identify, summarize, and prioritize key issues
- Proactive and solution-oriented
- Strong expertise of GCP (or AWS), Cloud architecture, Terraform, Helm and ArgoCD
- Demonstrated abilities to address and reduce technical debt while maintaining operational excellence. And handle incident management
- Experienced with creating, maintaining and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and administrating self-hosted GitLab installations
- As well as Datadog administration (LGTM or similar also accepted)
- Good knowledge of Observability (monitoring, alerting, logs, traces, SLO/SLA, …) and programming (code review, pair programming, design patterns, architecture, …) practices
- Good communication skills in both French and English, with the ability to write clear technical documentation
What the job involves
- Prose is seeking a Senior SRE - DevOps Engineer to build, maintain and optimize our infrastructure and platform operations
- In this role, you will maintain operational excellence, reduce technical debt, and optimize our systems
- You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the stability, scalability, and security of our platform while mentoring and managing a team of engineers
- This role is an opportunity to lead and inspire a team while driving the success of Prose’s infrastructure and development practices
- You will join a small, collaborative team (3 people) responsible for developer experience, platform management, best practices, and FinOps
- Together, you’ll focus on optimizing infrastructure costs, improving CI/CD, strengthening monitoring and alerting, and partnering closely with engineering and data teams to ensure seamless platform operations
- Our infrastructure runs primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Implement and maintain observability (metrics, logs, traces, alerts)
- Manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, ArgoCD) and multi-environment clusters securely
- Ensure cost-efficient scalability, disaster recovery, and secure networking
- Maintain GitOps/CD pipelines, reusable Helm/Kustomize templates, and artifact security
- Improve build efficiency and create self-service tools and “golden paths” for safe deployments
- Oversee projects, IAM, budgets, GKE clusters, and cloud service integrations
- Manage network security, connectivity, and cost tracking
- Standardize alerts, playbooks, and postmortems
- Optimize logging/monitoring and lead post-incident reviews
- Define infra governance (RFCs/ADRs) and document patterns
- Mentor developers on cloud-native design, scalability, and reliability
- Technical environment:
- Cloud provider(s): GCP
- Infras-as-Code: Terraform/Opentofu, Helm
- Programming: Bash, Python, Go
- CI/CD: GitlabCI, ArgoCD, (Spacelift / Terrateam / Terramate)
- Observability: Datadog, Sentry, Grafana, Prometheus
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
- VCS: Gitlab (self-hosted), Github
- Mics.: Rundeck, Argo Events, Argo rollouts , Cypress Cloud, Serverless
Application process
- HR Interview — 45 min (Video Call or On-site)
- A first conversation with our People Team to get to know you
- Technical & Team Interview — 1 hour (On-site)
- Meet Arthur (VP engineering) and Bastien (Sr Devops) in person
- They’ll introduce you to the Tech team, our projects, and how we work day to day
- Live Technical Assessment — 2 hours (On-site)
- Led by Bastien (Sr Devops) and Ivica (VP technology)
- You’ll receive 3–4 diagrams of our stack in advance to prepare
- We’ll walk through a live practical exercise simulating a real-world scenario from our environment
- We’ll look at your reasoning, problem-solving process, and ability to communicate clearly under realistic conditions
- Final Interview — 45 min (Zoom or On-site)
- Meet Nicolas (CTO) for the final conversation
- 🕓 Timeline: From first contact to final decision: ~3 weeks
Our take
Prose's products stem from the recognition that each individual's hair is unique, with various types and textures. Embracing this diversity, the company believes in the power of personalization to ensure everyone can access the hair care they truly need. To combat the one-size-fits-all approach of the hair care industry, Prose offers bespoke hair care solutions.
Amidst a booming trend of health and beauty personalization, Prose stands out among its competitors in the bespoke hair care arena. What sets the company apart is its unwavering commitment to the environment. Having achieved a significant milestone by becoming the first carbon-neutral custom beauty brand, attaining climate neutrality in 2021.
Prose's success has attracted substantial investments and interest, underscoring the industry's confidence in its products. With increased funds, the company aims to scale its operations and reach a broader customer base. As the demand for personalized beauty products continues to rise, the market is expected to expand, offering Prose ample opportunities for further growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Company sponsored health care plan (medical, dental and vision plans)
- $125 monthly wellness allowance
- Free lunch in office, weekly and an abundance of office snacks
- A gym membership (ClassPass)
- On-going training and development programs
Company HQ
Williamsburg, NY
Leadership
Arnaud Plas
(CEO & Co-Founder)Former VP of Digital and eCommerce Strategy at L'Oréal, where they previously also worked as Skincare Group Manager and as Styling and Mencare Group manager.
Nicolas Mussat
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously CTO at Meilleurs Agents. Former R&D Engineer at Delos France.
Catherine Taurin
(R&D Advisor & Co-Founder)Former R&D and Purchasing Director at CTRC Jf Lazartigues. Previously R&D Manager, Dyes Products and Haircare Products at Ales Groupe.
Paul Michaux
(Product & Co-Founder)Worked as Special Projects Manager, Corporate Strategic Marketing for L'Oréal. Former Assistant Brand Manager, Marketing Development at Parfums Christian Dior.
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