Senior Software Engineer - RING Platform Development Team

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - RING Platform Development Team

Location: Paris, France / R&D / Full Time / Full remote possible

Company Context

Scality is one of the most prominent FrenchTech startups, recognized throughout the industry for its technical leadership and its open-source contributions. Selected for the French Tech 120 #FT120, Scality is a worldwide leader in the space of software-defined storage.

Scality has over 300 customers in more than 30 countries, including some of the largest telecom operators and banks, several TV stations, and over 30 hospitals. For its team members, Scality wants to be an exceptional employer with many benefits such as continuous education and sports budgets, donation matching, paternity leave worldwide, and many other benefits that go well beyond market standards.

Scality is also a responsible company that invests heavily in room-to-room conferencing to minimize travel and compensates for all its travel-related carbon emissions.

Scality’s internal motto is: “Work hard, play hard, eat well, and amaze the customer!”

Startup Perks

• RTT in addition to PTOs
• High-end equipment (Apple/Dell laptop computers, Bring-Your-Own-OS policy, multiple screens)
• Stock options distribution
• Individual performance rewards
• Remote work policy
• Sports and Wellness programs
• Ample training allowance (e.g., internal/external skills training, conferences, coaching)
• Donation-matching
• Annual off-site company-wide “Kick-Off” event
• Food fun: lunch vouchers, weekly company breakfast, a lunch delivery service, unlimited hot soothing coffee / tea / chocolate drinks, and more
• Office fun: babyfoot, ping-pong, board and card games, planned group activities

Job Context

The Engineering department consists of a global engineering team with strong continuous integration and testing culture and infrastructure.

You’ll be integrated into a team of 9 people with varied backgrounds (production operations, pure development, product management…) ranging from 2 to 30+ years of experience.

The Mission

As a Senior Software Engineer:

• You will get up to speed regarding our perimeter, from Salt states to Ansible playbooks, throughout RPM packaging and Prometheus configuration.
• You will also take part in various projects and features related to testing, automation, cloud deployment, CI workflow, software releasing.
• You will be involved progressively in cross-team projects, specifically with our San Francisco team.

The Technical Stack

• Docker / Containerd
• RPM packaging
• Ansible / Salt
• Prometheus, ELK, Grafana
• RHEL/Rocky/CentOS
• Python / Bash
• Python APIs with Django, Flask
• PostgreSQL and SQLite databases
• Git / GitHub
• Github Actions as CI
• AWS and other providers for virtual labs

The Desired Profile

In General: 5+ years of experience, based in France. Basic annual salary from 55k€ to 70k€, +10% variable pay depending on the company quarterly results.

Key Skills

Human: Friendly, willing to collaborate with other team members, DevOps mindset, curious, able to self-direct, mentoring capabilities.

Languages: French speaker, fluent knowledge of English mandatory.

Technical: Expertise with Linux systems, CI systems, good knowledge of Bash, advanced knowledge of Python, and version control systems.

Bonus Skills

All other things listed in our technical stack, Python expertise, RHEL expertise, software development & release expertise, Jira, cloud engineering skills (e.g., AWS, terraform).