Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Paris, France

About Alma

At Alma, we believe sustainable commerce depends on fair, well-balanced trade. Because finance plays a pivotal role in business, our mission is to put it back in its rightful place - serving merchants and consumers.

Our installment and deferred payment solutions help merchants boost sales by 20% or more, increase customer loyalty, and deliver a seamless shopping experience - without encouraging bad debt.

As the buy now pay later leader in France and active in 10 European countries, we've empowered over +25,000 merchants and 10 million consumers.

With 380+ Almakers and €100M+ ARR, Alma is scaling rapidly across Europe as a member of the Next40, and we're just getting started!

About the team

The Developer Experience (DevX) squad is part of the Engineering's Platform Tribe. The Platform Tribe groups the DevX squad and the Site Reliability Engineering squad. The members of the tribe are responsible for building the foundational infrastructure, security layers, and core systems that empower Alma's entire product and engineering organization to scale reliably.

You will join a dedicated squad focused entirely on the daily lives of our engineers: Our mission is to eliminate friction from a developer's machine all the way to production. We build, optimize, and maintain the delivery systems, local development environments, and CI/CD automation that allow our product teams to ship high-quality code safely, frequently, and with absolute confidence.

We operate in a highly dynamic, polyglot environment. We are looking for an engineer driven by technical curiosity, who loves exploring new tools and technologies to continuously elevate our engineering standards.

This is a full-time position, based in Paris or fully remote in France.

About the job

• Own and continuously optimize our CI/CD pipelines and delivery workflows, ensuring fast feedback loops and secure deployments.
• Build and evolve the local developer experience, making it seamless for engineers to spin up, test, and debug services locally across a variety of languages and frameworks.
• Own and maintain part of our cloud infrastructure and container orchestration platforms using Terraform and Kubernetes. This will also require participating in identifying and solving infrastructure-related production issues and performance troubleshooting, upgrading our platforms for long-term resilience.
• Be a technical referent and drive engineering standards forward by acting as a trusted partner for product engineering squads on delivery and infrastructure best practices, sharing expertise and providing guidance.
• Encourage a culture of technical curiosity by frequently evaluating, benchmarking, and prototyping emerging technologies to bring the best tool sets to the team and promoting a culture of continuous learning across the org.

You will work with

Python, TypeScript, PHP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GCP, Postgres and Datadog.

About you

To succeed in this job

• You've built at least 5 years of experience in a relevant role, ideally in DevOps or Platform Engineering.
• You take ownership of cross-functional infrastructure initiatives, driving complex projects from design to delivery alongside multiple teams.
• You have hands-on experience designing, building, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines end to end (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
• You're comfortable building robust automation pipelines and modernizing local development environments.
• You are fluent in French (primary working language) with a good level of English, for documentation, cross-team exchanges, and technical reading, writing as well as presenting.

And it will be nice if you also

• Have production-grade proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (not necessarily Terraform) and container orchestration (not necessarily Kubernetes).
• Are familiar with an observability and monitoring stack (Datadog, Prometheus, or equivalent).
• Have worked with local development environment tooling (Nix, mise, asdf, devenv, devcontainers, etc.).
• Working knowledge of at least one language from Alma's stack (Python, TypeScript, or PHP), enough to read, debug, and contribute when needed.

Don't meet every single requirement? At Alma, we believe great hires come from diverse paths. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply. We value potential, curiosity and the ability to grow as much as experience.

What's in it for you

If you join, you will be able to grow and impact on:

• The infrastructure and tooling that directly shapes the productivity and confidence of every engineer at Alma. You'll have real ownership over your scope, the space to explore and prototype freely, and the support to take initiative.
• The DevX squad, a dynamic, polyglot team where learning together is a core habit, not an afterthought.
• Alma's growth across Europe, as the infrastructure you build directly enables us to scale reliably across 10 markets and more in the future, your work has a clear and measurable line to the business.

Compensation & benefits

• Competitive salary based on 12 months
• Profit-sharing and employee savings plan
• Health insurance: 100% covered by Alma including family package
• Disability insurance: 100% covered by Alma
• Sport: partnerships with Gymlib and Classpass, or €30/month reimbursement for your sports activities
• Maternity/paternity leave: salary maintained at 100% during leave with no seniority requirement. Return to work at 4/5 schedule paid at 100% for 8 weeks.
• Sustainable Mobility Package (FMD): €544.80/year (excluding full-remote contracts)
• Meal vouchers: €10/day, 50% covered by Alma
• Mental health: free access to MindDay platform
• Paid time off: 25 days/year ****(+ additional paid leave granted for employees on executive contracts)
• Access to our Learning & Development Platform
• 2 weeks of full remote possible per year in summer for people working in hybrid remote

Interview Process

• Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member to understand your path, motivation & present you the role.
• Video call with your future manager to deep dive the role, the team, your profile and answer all your questions.
• Case study presentation with 2 - 3 team members (ideally in house) to assess your practical knowledge**.**
• Take-home coding test, followed by a remote feedback session.
• Live system design interview to assess your practical and architectural knowledge.
• A coffee chat with the squad you'll join to further assess your skills and team fit.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Alma, we believe that diversity fuels innovation and makes our community stronger. We are committed to building a workplace where every person feels seen, respected, and empowered to do their best work whatever their gender, background, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability or lived experience. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applicants from all walks of life, and all employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.