Brevo

Distinguished Engineer

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2 days ago
Paris, FranceStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own a small number of high-impact technical transformations end to end, including architecture, implementation strategy, migration, adoption, and legacy-system retirement.
  • Rebuild CI/CD and deployment architecture across hundreds of services and repositories.
  • Replace fragmented logging and observability patterns with an OpenTelemetry-based platform backed by ClickHouse.
  • Redesign Kafka usage and introduce stronger platform abstractions around messaging.
  • Develop ClickHouse into a first-class internal product and define standards for service communication, reliability, runtime architecture, and developer platforms.
  • Drive initiatives across organizational boundaries, infrastructure, and application code while resolving obstacles through delivery.

Requirements

  • Have operated at Principal, Distinguished, Senior Principal, Fellow, or equivalent level within a significantly larger engineering organization.
  • Have repeatedly led transformations involving hundreds of engineers or large service fleets, distributed systems and production infrastructure, complex migrations, strong technical disagreement across senior teams, and architecture decisions with broad and lasting consequences.
  • Be able to move between system design, code review, production incidents, migration planning, and executive-level technical decisions.
  • Have deep expertise in several of Kubernetes, CI/CD, Kafka, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, distributed databases, service communication, developer platforms, and large-scale observability.

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About Brevo

501-1,000 employees

Brevo builds an all‑in‑one customer engagement and CRM platform for businesses and nonprofits, combining email, SMS, WhatsApp, chat, marketing automation, landing pages, and a sales CRM with APIs and integrations. It sells its software as a SaaS subscription. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Paris, it is privately held. Customers span 180 countries and include organizations such as Amnesty International, Carrefour, eBay, Louis Vuitton, and Michelin.

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