BlaBlaCar

Engineering Manager DBRE

Paris, IDF, FR, France

Hybrid, RemoteFull time roleSenior Level

About 1 month ago

About the Job

About BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries. Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices, 30% working fully remotely.

Your mission

Part of the Foundations Staff, as the Engineering Manager for our Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) team, your mission is to ensure the availability, and resilience of our data infrastructure. You will lead a team of engineers focused on managing and evolving our database systems, enabling secure, scalable, and observable data services that empower engineering teams to build confidently. Your role will balance technical depth with leadership, ensuring operational excellence while guiding strategic improvements in how we store, access, and protect data.

Your responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of DBREs focused on supporting production-grade relational and non-relational databases
Define and drive the strategy for database reliability, security, and scalability in alignment with engineering and business priorities
Foster a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement around our database systems and operations
Oversee the health of our production data infrastructure: backup strategies, replication, disaster recovery, high availability, and monitoring
Partner with the rest of Engineering to ensure data systems integrate seamlessly into our broader platform
Guide the adoption of best practices in schema design, query optimization, data migrations, and performance tuning
Ensuring that the team delivers the technical solutions to achieve the team’s OKRs while matching our standard of quality
Support career development, performance management, and hiring for the DBRE team

Your qualifications

Proven experience as a technical leader or engineering manager, with a background in database reliability, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering
Strong hands-on knowledge of production-grade databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Cassandra, or other distributed data stores)
Solid understanding of database performance tuning, schema design, and query optimization
Experience with infrastructure-as-code, observability tooling, and CI/CD practices
Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, or Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
Comfortable managing on-call rotations, incident response, and implementing postmortem culture
Ability to guide and grow a team: mentoring engineers, leading technical conversations, and supporting career progression
Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering, security, and product teams
Aligned with our company principle
Fluency in English

If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d still be a great fit for this role in your application!

What we have to offer

Full remote possible in the country of employment
4 additional weeks parental leave 100% paid
Financial support for home office equipment
25 days holiday per year + RTT
Local meal plan policies (Swile card in France)
50% transportation paid in France (Forfait Mobilité Durable)
Relocation package and visa support
Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides
Personal growth via trainings, mentorship, and internal mobility programs
Employee Stock Ownership plan
Regular team building events
Mental health support through Moka.care

Interested in joining the ride?

a 45-min video-call with Chloé, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
a 60-min video-call with Camille & Maxime to discuss your background and management skills
a 45-min video-call with Florent to evaluate your technical skills
a 30-min video-call with Nicolas our CTO to get a wider vision of the department and its strategy

BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

About the Company

BlaBlaCar

Paris, Ile-de-France, France

501-1000

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million active members a year to share a ride in 21 countries. Its technology matches drivers with empty seats with passengers heading the same way, so they can share the cost of the trip. With the mission to be the go-to marketplace for shared travel, BlaBlaCar combines carpooling with bus journeys from over 5 000 operators to offer a wide choice of affordable and sustainable travel solutions, all in one app. In 2023, BlaBlaCar’s trusted community connected 2,4 million meeting points worldwide and enabled 104 million human encounters. Carpool drivers saved 513 million euros, and all BlaBlaCar’s mobility services contributed to avoiding 2 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.