Engineering Manager - Observability & Reliability Engineering Obsession

About the role

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the OREO (Observability Reliability Engineering Obsession) team within Platform Engineering. You will drive the evolution of Doctolib's observability platform while building and empowering a world-class SRE team to support our exponential growth.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of Site Reliability Engineers, supporting their technical development and career progression
• Create a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and psychological safety within the team
• Define and evolve the observability strategy across the platform, focusing on logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
• Own the strategy and evolution of critical services including HashiCorp Vault and Terraform Enterprise
• Drive prioritization and roadmap planning for large-scale reliability and observability initiatives
• Own the team's on-call experience and contribute to incident response processes
• Lead postmortem reviews and drive systemic improvements to prevent recurring issues
• Work closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and architects to align observability capabilities with platform needs
• Represent the OREO team in engineering leadership forums and strategic planning sessions

What you'll need

• 5+ years of software engineering or SRE experience with strong technical background in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes)
• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading technical teams (ideally SRE, platform, or infrastructure teams)
• Deep understanding of observability tooling and architecture (Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Thanos, Datadog)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, OpenTofu) and secrets management systems (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
• Proven ability to balance technical depth with people leadership, mentor engineers, and guide architectural decisions

Nice to have

• Experience scaling SRE or platform teams in fast-growing, high-traffic environments
• Background in designing and operating high-scale telemetry pipelines
• Hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault and Terraform Enterprise in production environments
• Hands-on experience with backend programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby)
• Experience driving cultural and technical transformations

What they offer

• Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children
• Parent Care Program with additional month of leave on top of legal parental leave
• Free mental health and coaching services through Moka.care
• Work from EU countries and UK for up to 10 days per year
• Work Council subsidy for sport club membership or creative classes
• Up to 14 days of RTT and lunch voucher with Swile card