18 days ago
Paris, FranceSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect and build core platform systems shared across Proton Mail and Proton Calendar.
- Improve production-system performance and infrastructure cost efficiency using monitoring and metrics.
- Drive efficiency and cost-reduction initiatives from proposal through production.
- Apply data-driven methods to technical decisions, delivery planning, and prioritization.
- Collaborate with product, backend, and client engineers on high-quality systems.
- Develop comprehensive unit and integration testing strategies for core systems.
- Lead technical initiatives end-to-end from design through production.
Requirements
- Strong backend development experience designing, building, and scaling systems serving a large user base of 100M+ users.
- Demonstrated ability to improve the performance and cost efficiency of production systems.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and OpenTelemetry or equivalent.
- Solid understanding of SQL, with MySQL preferred, and data modeling.
- Experience leading technical initiatives from design through production.
Benefits
- Stock options and company ownership opportunity.
- Health coverage, retirement options, generous leave, and wellness support.
- Learning and development investment with substantial ownership and career growth opportunities.
- In-person collaboration at offices including Geneva, Zürich, Barcelona, and London; the role is marked onsite.
- Lunch and snacks provided in company offices.
- Public transport, bike allowance, or parking support.
- Flexible working hours and schedule.
- The Paris compensation range is €54,000–€83,000 gross annually; compensation for other locations is discussed during the interview process.
