Expert Infrastructure Engineer, Deezer

Salary not provided
Docker
Kubernetes
GCP
Linux
Terraform
ELK
Ansible
Prometheus
Grafana
Ubuntu
Git
Golang
Senior level
Paris

Office located in Rue de Calais, Paris

Deezer

Audio streaming platform

Open for applications

Deezer

Audio streaming platform

501-1000 employees

B2CMusicContentEntertainmentMobileCommunity

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Docker
Kubernetes
GCP
Linux
Terraform
ELK
Ansible
Prometheus
Grafana
Ubuntu
Git
Golang
Senior level
Paris

Office located in Rue de Calais, Paris

501-1000 employees

B2CMusicContentEntertainmentMobileCommunity

Company mission

Deezer's mission is to bring audiences and artists together by embodying the thrill, intimacy, and delight of music discovery.

Role

Who you are

  • Experience 5+ years
  • Expert knowledge of GCP and migrating workloads
  • Strong knowledge of GNU/Linux systems (we use Ubuntu)
  • Strong knowledge with Kubernetes, GKE and containerization (Docker)
  • Experience with analysing and implementing platform migrations
  • Experience with DevOps practices and philosophy (we use Git, Ansible, Helm, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Golang, etc.)
  • Very good communication and Inspirational Leadership skills
  • At ease in teamwork and sharing of work using Kanban
  • Ability to work autonomously, to self-organise team work in collaboration with the team
  • Fluent in writing well-documented procedures in English
  • Supporting junior team members, giving advice and constructive feedback
  • Promoting change, evangelising good practices
  • Leading team meetings and arousing enthusiasm for a shared vision

What the job involves

  • The Core Infrastructure Team is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer with Cloud experience for living thrilling adventures
  • You will help us to provide reliable, high-performing and secure services to guarantee the best Deezer Experience around the world in a resource-efficient way
  • You will be confronted with various challenges tied to a high traffic and high availability environment
  • You will contribute to the continuing evolution of the platform and associated services.
  • Analyse, plan and move key workloads to the cloud (GCP)
  • Build, deploy, monitor and maintain services, solutions and tools impacting our whole infrastructure (On-premise & Cloud)
  • Collaborate with product & tech teams to evolve and improve on-premises and Cloud solutions
  • Monitor, detect anomalies, investigate problems, resolve incidents and write post-mortems, being in the on-call rotation
  • Participate in code and architecture reviews of our solutions from product & tech teams
  • Help the team to handle its workload and reduce its toil
  • Help ensure the security and integrity of our platform and services

Our take

Deezer is a listening app that lets users stream music, podcasts, and radio stations from multiple devices, also offering recommendations and smart playlists. This makes it a competitor of a giant in the sector, Spotify. While Deezer and Spotify are comparable in many respects such as interface, content music discovery features and pricing, Deezer currently has an edge in sound quality. However, it lacks the paying customer base of Spotify - while it has a healthy 16 million paid subscribers, Spotify is roughly ten times larger.

Neither company specialises in terms of media or region, so it’s hard to see how Deezer could carve itself out a distinct niche, and it risks falling behind in integrations with third-party platforms due to its relatively small market share. A major data breach of customer information in 2022 was badly handled, which won't help matters.

There is, however, an outside chance that Spotify could fall victim to their own success, having come under fire in recent years for its poor relationships with the artists on its platform. With a solid platform and considerable funding from a SPAC IPO Placement in 2022, Deezer may find itself in a position to pick up some of the windfall customers from fans dissatisfied with Spotify's response to this and other issues swirling around the giant.

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Freddie

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Insights

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

11% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Aug 2018

$176.3m

LATE VC

Jan 2016

$110.2m

SERIES E

Total funding: $529.1m

Company benefits

  • Start-up environment and philosophy
  • Highly motivated and product-focused people ready to drive innovation
  • In-house Deezer Sessions with your favourite artists, gig tickets
  • Hackathons & meetups
  • Friday drinks, summer and winter parties
  • A stocked kitchen with free drinks and snacks
  • Areas to relax and collaborate with beanbags, guitars and table football
  • An ‘at home’ vibe, with great outdoor spaces
  • Gym access, with lunch-time yoga, pilates and thai boxing classes
  • A Deezer premium family account for free
  • Allowance for sports, travelling and culture
  • Meal vouchers

Company HQ

Saint-Georges, Paris, France

Leadership

Previously MD at Paddy Power Betfair, who went on to serve as CEO at Affinitas and then Spark Networks.

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