Believe

Staff Engineer (H/F)

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3 months ago
Paris, FranceStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define and promote cross-team coding, architecture, quality, and non-functional requirements standards.
  • Guide multiple teams toward iterative development, autonomous decision-making, and a shared technical vision.
  • Promote engineering craft practices including testing, observability, continuous delivery, progressive rollout, resilience, and maintainability.
  • Use DORA, defect, coverage, and incident metrics to prioritize engineering improvements.
  • Lead cross-squad incidents and serve as a security point of reference for multiple teams.
  • Frame complex system-level technical problems involving distributed and event-driven architectures.
  • Help product managers make roadmap decisions through technical trade-offs and cost/value considerations.
  • Design and deliver high-impact workshops, training, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
  • Lead unassigned cross-functional topics and align architecture, platform, security, and product stakeholders around shared decisions.
  • Improve the organization’s overall developer experience.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of software development experience.
  • Significant experience operating at a cross-team and strategic level, such as Staff, Principal, or an equivalent role.
  • Deep demonstrated engineering-craft orientation with mastery of testing, software quality, observability, DORA metrics, and non-functional requirements.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and align multiple stakeholders without formal authority.
  • Confirmed experience facilitating workshops and training and mentoring other engineers, including Senior Engineers.
  • Strong command of distributed system architectures and ability to connect technical decisions to product and market value.
  • Understanding of FinOps and cost/value trade-offs.
  • Excellent communication and technical simplification skills, with pragmatism and the ability to foster constructive disagreement and durable alignment.

Benefits

  • Tailored training and coaching program.
  • Telework policy.
  • Wellness program with activities and events.
  • Access to Eutelmed for digital mental-health and wellness support.
  • Healthy, environmentally responsible company restaurant.
  • Individual or family health insurance.
  • Employee works council benefits.
  • Rooftop and on-site gym with free classes.
  • Ambassador volunteering program supporting diversity, equity, inclusion, well-being, and environmental initiatives.
  • Sustainable mobility reimbursement of up to €600 for public transport or low-carbon travel.
  • Five calendar days of second-parent leave paid at 100%, in addition to statutory paternity or adoption leave.

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About Believe

1,001-5,000 employees

Believe builds digital music distribution and label services for independent artists and labels, offering analytics, marketing, video, and monetization tools. Its portfolio includes TuneCore and Believe Label & Artist Solutions, with revenue from distribution fees and revenue-sharing for services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Paris, it operates in about 50 countries and supports releases across major streaming platforms.

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