Distinguished Engineer
Job description
A Distinguished Engineer based in the Paris office to lead large, cross-cutting technical transformations across Product Engineering, Platform, Infrastructure and Data. The role is a company-wide individual contributor position reporting directly to the CTO with authority to drive major technical decisions.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- On-site · Paris, France
What you'll do
- Own a small number of high-impact technical transformations end to end: architecture, implementation strategy, migration, adoption and retirement of legacy systems
- 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 how Kafka is used and introduce stronger platform abstractions around messaging
- Turn ClickHouse into a first-class internal product rather than a database consumed inconsistently across teams
- Define and drive common standards around service communication, reliability, runtime architecture and developer platforms
- Drive projects through every stage and resolve whatever obstacles arise until delivered
What we're looking for
- Have already 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
- Experience with complex migrations where old and new worlds had to coexist
- Experience navigating strong technical disagreement across senior teams
- Experience with architecture decisions with broad and lasting consequences
- Move fluidly between a system design discussion, a code review, a production incident, a migration plan, and an executive-level technical decision
- Deep expertise in several of: Kubernetes, CI/CD, Kafka, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, distributed databases, service communication, developer platforms, and large-scale observability
Your team
Engineering
Company-wide IC role with direct report to the CTO, driving decisions across Product Engineering, Platform, Infrastructure and Data
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About Brevo
We're not just building a CRM
Brevo provides email, SMS, WhatsApp, Chat and Marketing Automation tools that give businesses a clear view of the customer journey. It is a certified B Corp serving more than 500,000 businesses across 180 countries, with 75+ integrations.
Mission
Helping millions of organizations build lasting relationships with their customers
Key facts
- CRM / marketing technology
- Certified B Corp
- More than 500,000 businesses across 180 countries
- 75+ integrations
- Exceeded 200m ARR
Partners & customers
What they value
- Grow with purpose
- High standards of social and environmental impact