Doctolib
Engineering Manager - Observability & Reliability Engineering Obsession (x/f/m)
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · Berlin
Employer listed it 8 months ago · Added 2 days ago
Been open since 8 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Hybrid · Berlin
Timezone
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Contract
Contract
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around Berlin, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Berlin, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
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- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join the OREO (Observability Reliability Engineering Obsession) team in Platform Engineering .
As an Engineering Manager , your mission will be to lead the Reliability & Observability team and drive the evolution of Doctolib's observability platform, supporting the exponential growth of Doctolib services while building and empowering a world-class SRE team.
Working in the tech team at Doctolib involves building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients. We work in feature teams in an agile environment, while collaborating with product, design, and business teams.
You will lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers who are responsible for shaping Doctolib's observability strategy and ensuring our platform remains reliable, debuggable, and scalable. This role sits at the intersection of people management, technical leadership, and strategic planning with a particular focus on building organizational capabilities around logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
Your team also owns and operates critical transversal services that enable secure, scalable infrastructure management across the organization, including HashiCorp Vault for secrets management and Terraform Enterprise for infrastructure as code.
Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:
People Leadership:
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
Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations
Recruit, onboard, and retain top SRE talent aligned with Doctolib's mission and values
Technical Strategy:
Partner with SREs and senior engineers to define and evolve the observability strategy across the platform, focusing on logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
Own the strategy and evolution of critical transversal services including HashiCorp Vault and Terraform Enterprise
Drive prioritization and roadmap planning for large-scale reliability and observability initiatives
Ensure alignment between team objectives and broader engineering and business goals
Advocate for and allocate resources toward reducing technical debt and improving developer experience
Operational Excellence:
Own the team's on-call experience and contribute to the incident response processes, ensuring sustainable practices and continuous improvement
Ensure high availability and reliability of transversal services that are critical to the entire engineering organization
Lead postmortem reviews and drive systemic improvements to prevent recurring issues
Cross-functional Collaboration:
Work closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and architects to align observability capabilities with product and platform needs
Partner with security and infrastructure teams to evolve secrets management and IaC practices across the organization
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
- ·Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children
- ·ParentCare Program: Enjoy full salary coverage (100%) during your first month of birth leave, and 75% during the second, covered by Doctolib
- ·Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
- ·For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
- ·Work from EU countries and the UK for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Doctolib, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 3d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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