Director, Site Reliability Engineering- Paris (x/f/m)

Since 2013, Doctolib has been on a mission to reinvent the daily life of health professionals and help people live healthier. With a team of 2,900 across France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, we are Europe's leading AI and digital health company — bringing together 420,000 health professionals and 90 million patients through our technologies. Our all-in-one platform covers every dimension of a health professional's work: scheduling, clinical documentation, billing, patient communication, and AI-powered consultation assistance. For patients, our health companion guides them to the right care, centralises their health data, and supports them throughout their entire health journey. We are now at a pivotal moment — modernizing our technology foundation to scale to new countries, new specialities, and new product verticals, while maintaining the mission‑critical reliability that millions of care journeys depend on every day.

About the Role

As our Director of Site Reliability Engineering, reporting to our VP of Platform Engineering, you'll own the core infrastructure layers that everything at Doctolib runs on: cloud infrastructure, database operations, network infrastructure, and observability. You will also lead the Doctolib Operations Center (DOC) and drive a decisive shift from reactive operations to a proactive, world‑class reliability culture. This is a rare opportunity to shape the infrastructure backbone of Europe's leading healthtech company, at a moment when Doctolib is actively expanding multi‑cloud capabilities, scaling to new countries, and building the reliability culture that will define the next decade of healthcare innovation.

Responsibilities

• Build and run a world‑class SRE org of 25+ engineers across Cloud Infrastructure, Database & Storage, Network Infrastructure, Observability Tooling, and the Doctolib Operations Center
• Own the infrastructure strategy and roadmap — cloud, database, network, observability — and deliver against company OKRs
• Lead the Doctolib Operations Center: set incident response standards, drive MTTR reduction, embed blameless post‑mortem culture across engineering
• Architect and execute our multi‑cloud strategy — reducing vendor lock‑in, cutting migration costs, and enabling international expansion
• Own network infrastructure at scale: load balancing, CDN/WAF, VPCs, peering, zero‑trust networking across a high‑traffic, multi‑country platform
• Drive observability as a product — give 700+ engineers true visibility into system health and turn observability maturity into an operational excellence lever
• Lead from the front as a senior technical voice in the Platform org and broader Tech leadership team

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading managers and running infrastructure or SRE organisations at scale
• Track record of taking SRE practices from reactive to proactive — with measurable reductions in incidents and MTTR
• Strong multi‑cloud and network infrastructure experience: load balancing, CDN/WAF, VPCs, peering, at high‑traffic scale
• Deep database operations background: large‑scale transactional systems (PostgreSQL, Aurora), streaming/CDC (Kafka), data layer FinOps
• Experience building observability platforms that give teams genuine visibility — metrics, logs, traces, alerting
• Sharp process thinking: SLOs, error budgets, incident management, blameless post‑mortems
• Outcome‑driven: you track reliability, cost efficiency, and engineering velocity as business metrics, not just technical ones
• Strong communicator and influencer at executive level — equally credible with senior engineers and business stakeholders
• Builder of high‑performing, people‑first engineering cultures
• Fluent in English; comfortable in fast‑paced, international environments
• You recognise yourself in our playbook values
• Experience in healthcare, regulated, or high‑compliance industries (HDS, ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR, data sovereignty)
• Familiarity with our stack: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Go, Python, React, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Datadog, GitHub Actions
• French language proficiency
• Experience with AI‑augmented infrastructure tooling or ML platform operations
• M&A or post‑acquisition infrastructure integration experience

What we offer

• Highly competitive salary and equity
• Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children
• Parent Care Program: receive additional leave on top of the legal parental leave
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
• For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
• Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Work Council subsidy to refund part of sport club membership or creative class
• Up to 14 days of RTT
• A subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class
• Lunch voucher with Swile card

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Equal Opportunity Statement

At Doctolib, we believe in improving access to healthcare for everyone - regardless of where you come from, what you look like. This translates into our recruitment process: Doctolib is an equal opportunity employer. We don't just accept diversity at Doctolib, we respect and celebrate it! The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, or place of origin. If you have a disability, let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process smoother for you!