Director, Platform Services
Contentsquare is a global digital analytics company empowering the brands you interact with every day to build better online experiences for all. Since our founding in France in 2012, we have grown to be a truly global and distributed team – known as the CSquad – representing more than 70 nationalities across the world.
In 2022, we raised $600M in Series F funding, doubling our valuation to $5.6B and were recognised as a certified Great Place to Work in France, Germany, Israel, US and UK.
Our mission:
At Contentsquare, all employees share one goal: to help brands create exceptional online experiences with our industry-leading digital experience analytics platform.
The Platform mission is to lead the Platform and Infrastructure in CS,
for us that means 2 main things:
Manage and operate powerful multi-cloud, high scale SaaS
Support our developers from build to production. Make it efficient and simple for them to do magic
Our stack:
The short list:
We host our SaaS on AWS and Azure. Run our stateless applications on kubernetes and on our way to run stateful as well.
We use Kafka, Aerospike, Clickhouse, Flink and RDS for our data pipelines.
We manage our entire infrastructure with Terraform and Helm.
We use Github and Github-actions for CI, Spinnaker for Deployments,
Observability with Grafana, Prometheus, mimir, ELK and more..
Our challenges:
The platform team operates with the mind set and focus on 6 pillars:
Observability, Security, Cost, Reliability, Scalability and Dev experience.
Main challenges:
Support the growth of engineering teams and technologies
Enhance production resiliency and scalability
Perfect our observability, cost and security of our SaaS
Make our development experience simple, accessible, powerful
The opportunity:
As a senior manager in the Platform organization you will own a big part of the developer’s experience in contentsquare, influencing the lives of more than 400 developers.
From build to production, that involves making sure their tools, processes, and working environment are all conducive to their best work.
As a leader in R&D you will have a significant impact on our SaaS product. You will take part as a leader in the Platform team to lead our cloud infrastructure, data, developer’s tools, automation and more.
You will play a critical and active role in the day-to-day operations. This is an excellent opportunity to be one of the key leaders of R&D.
What you’ll do:
You will develop a team and continue to grow, train and mentor it
You will work on vision and strategy for Platform
Take a big part in the leadership of Platform, tackling for improvements everywhere
You will have the opportunity to play a big part in the leadership of R&D
Collaborate with many dev teams on architecture, design and planning
Handle big and important projects on multi cloud environments
Own, improve and advocate for production stability and performance
Work with all major technologies relevant to manage high scale SaaS and big data environments on public clouds (AWS & Azure)
You will work closely with all our top engineers and management, reporting to VP Platform
What would make you a good fit:
You have experience working for a SaaS company
5+ years DevOps experience, preferably in a global company
A confirmed experience of 4 years as a manager
You are data driven and you love numbers. Working closely with dev teams for benches and calculations on scale and needs
You care about developer’s experience and you think about ways to continuously improve their efficiency and joy working with Platform tools
You are very curious and technical. You have hands-on experience.
You can take on yourself to lead cross functional technical projects
You adapt quickly in a changing environment and you always reconsider your methods
You have a strong will to go beyond yourself
You are a great teammate
You want to be part of an amazing fast-growing & international company
You're fluent in English (spoken, written)
You have Work Hard and Play Hard spirit
€80,000 - €110,000 a year
Why you should join our R&D department? Here is our R&D Manifesto
We write our own story.
We think for ourselves, keeping an open mind and engaging in constructive criticism. We are transparent in what we do and why we do it. We build and leverage tech expertise to answer business challenges. Learning from all experiences, we deliver continuous improvements in production. We empower all team members to have an end-to-end impact, take initiative, and bring new ideas to life. We stand together and thrive together; team spirit and solidarity matter even more than strong expertise.
We live a human adventure.
Why you should join Contentsquare:
▪️ We’re humans first. We hire dedicated people and provide them with the trust, resources and flexibility to get the job done.
▪️ We invest in our people through career development, mentorship, social events, philanthropic activities, and competitive benefits.
▪️ We are a fast growing company with a track record of success over the past 10 years, yet we operate with the agility of a startup. That means a huge chance to create an immediate and lasting impact.
▪️ Our clients, partners and investors love our industry-leading product.
To keep our employees happy and engaged, we are always assessing the benefits/perks we offer to ensure we are competitive. Here are a few we want to highlight:
▪️ Virtual onboarding, Hackathon, and various opportunities to interact with your team and global colleagues both on and offsite each year.
▪️ Work flexibility: hybrid and remote work policies.
▪️ Generous paid time-off policy (every location is different).
▪️ Immediate eligibility for birthing and non-birthing parental leave.
▪️ Wellbeing allowance.
▪️ Home Office Allowance.
▪️ A Culture Crew in every country to coordinate regular outings such as game nights, movie nights, and happy hours.
▪️ Every full-time employee receives stock options, allowing them to share in the company’s success.
▪️ We offer many benefits in various countries -- ask your recruiter for more information.
Uniqueness is embedded in our DNA as one of our core values. Even if you don’t meet all of the requirements above, we encourage you to apply.
Contentsquare is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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