Engineering Manager - Site Reliability & Observability

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead an SRE team dedicated to platform reliability and observability within Platform Engineering. Your mission will be to grow and lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers, ensuring Doctolib's platform remains reliable, scalable, and resilient at a European scale across infrastructure, observability, and cross-cutting reliability initiatives.

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 reliability and observability strategy across the platform, covering infrastructure automation, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
• Drive prioritization and roadmap planning for large-scale reliability initiatives, including SLOs, error budgets, and alerting standards across multiple product teams
• Own the team's on-call experience and contribute to incident response processes, ensuring sustainable practices and continuous improvement
• Work closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and architects to align reliability and observability capabilities with product and platform needs

What you'll need

• At least 5+ years of software engineering or SRE experience, with a strong technical background in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, and/or Kubernetes-based)
• 3+ years of engineering management experience, leading technical teams (ideally SRE, platform, or infrastructure teams)
• Strong understanding of observability tooling and architecture (e.g. OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Datadog, Elasticsearch)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and secrets management systems
• Proven ability to balance technical depth with people leadership, able to mentor engineers, review technical designs, and guide architectural decisions
• Fluent in English

Nice to have

• Experience scaling SRE or platform teams in fast-growing, high-traffic environments
• Hands-on experience with backend programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, Ruby)
• Experience driving cultural and technical transformations
• Experience working in regulated environments (healthcare, fintech, or similar)

What they offer

• 28 vacation days + 1 additional day for each full calendar year of employment (up to 30 days)
• Company health insurance with supplementary benefits through Allianz
• Company pension scheme (bAV) with 40% employer subsidy
• ParentCare Program with full salary coverage (100%) first month, 75% second month of birth leave
• Free mental health and coaching services through Moka.care
• Deutschlandticket fully paid, flexible workplace policy, subsidized meals and sports membership