Senior Backend Developer (SRE)

As a Backend Developer focused on Site Reliability Engineering at Poka, you’ll take a key role in scaling, optimizing, and securing the core infrastructure that powers our platform.

Your work will directly support the stability and performance of our production systems while enabling engineering teams to deliver value faster and with greater confidence.

With daily deployments to production, we place a strong emphasis on quality, observability, and operational excellence. You’ll join a highly collaborative environment where continuous improvement, technical ownership, and innovation are deeply embedded in our culture.

• Ensure the availability, performance, and resilience of mission-critical systems and services
• Design and implement robust monitoring and alerting to provide real-time operational insights
• Automate deployment, scaling, and incident recovery workflows
• Lead or contribute to incident response and post-incident analysis to drive long-term reliability
• Partner with development teams to architect scalable, fault-tolerant backend systems
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, from ideation to implementation
• Help embed and evolve our DevOps and SRE best practices across engineering
• Improve the developer experience for backend engineers through tooling, observability, and process enhancements
• Contribute to the development of complex platform subsystems
• Clearly document decisions, processes, and systems clearly through RFCs and ADRs

• A degree in Computer Science or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5 years of experience in backend web service development, combined with strong expertise in system administration and site reliability engineering.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, networks, and databases.
• Knowledge of cloud ecosystems, especially AWS.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar).
• Experience with automation and infrastructure as code (CloudFormation is a plus).
• Proficiency in Python.
• Strong problem-solving skills, particularly in managing complex incidents and conducting effective post-mortems.
• Clear communication skills in both French and English
• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment (a plus).

Beyond your technical expertise, we’re looking for someone who thrives in a dynamic and sometimes unpredictable environment. You stay calm under pressure, whether facing frequent interruptions, spikes in stress, or urgent issues. You’re comfortable quickly reprioritizing as needed. You know how to identify risks, close gaps, and create value even when the path forward isn’t clearly defined. Your resilience, curiosity, and autonomy enable you to thrive in an environment where developers have the freedom to shape their own solutions. Most importantly, you bring a strong team spirit rooted in collaboration, openness, and a positive attitude, even when things don’t go as planned.