Senior DevOps Engineer

1. About Alma

At Alma, we believe sustainable commerce depends on fair, well‑balanced trade. Because finance plays a pivotal role in business, our mission is to put it back in its rightful place - serving merchants and consumers.

Our installment and deferred payment solutions help merchants boost sales by 20% or more, increase customer loyalty, and deliver a seamless shopping experience - without encouraging bad debt.

As the buy now pay later leader in France and active in 10 European countries, we’ve empowered over +24,000 merchants and 9 million consumers.

With 380+ Almakers and €100M+ ARR, Alma is scaling rapidly across Europe—and we’re just getting started.

Alma is the company for you if are looking for:

Collective intelligence is the driving force behind Alma: we are looking for open-minded, curious, and ambitious people who want to actively participate in this exponential growth.

To continue to deliver an optimal purchasing experience and absolute ease of use, all teams at Alma (Tech, Product, Sales, Operations, Data, Risk, Finance, Compliance, Legal, Marketing and People) will strengthen their members to maintain the highest standards of quality and trust while pushing these innovations at Alma’s pace.

2. About the Job

Alma shapes the fintech landscape. We strive to serve and empower consumers and merchants by developing innovative solutions that redefine their purchase experience.

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to work within the Developer Experience (DevX) squad, part or the Engineering’s Platform Tribe. The Platform Tribe groups the DevX squad and the Site Reliability Engineering quad. The members of the tribe are responsible for building the foundational infrastructure, security layers, and core systems that empower Alma's entire product and engineering organization to scale reliably.

You will join a dedicated squad focused entirely on the daily lives of our engineers: Our mission is to eliminate friction from a developer's machine all the way to production. We build, optimize, and maintain the delivery systems, local development environments, and CI/CD automation that allow our product teams to ship high-quality code safely, frequently, and with absolute confidence.

We operate in a highly dynamic, polyglot environment. We are looking for an engineer driven by technical curiosity, who loves exploring new tools and technologies to continuously elevate our engineering standards.

3. Your responsibilities and missions

Your main missions are:

• Own and continuously optimize our CI/CD pipelines and delivery workflows, ensuring fast feedback loops and secure deployments.
• Build and evolve the local developer experience, making it seamless for engineers to spin up, test, and debug services locally across a variety of languages and frameworks.
• Own and maintain part of our cloud infrastructure and container orchestration platforms using Terraform and Kubernetes. This will also require participating in identifying and solving infrastructure-related production issues and performance troubleshooting, upgrading our platforms for long-term resilience.
• Be a technical referent and drive engineering standards forward by acting as a trusted partner for product engineering squads on delivery and infrastructure best practices, sharing expertise and providing guidance.
• Encourage a culture of technical curiosity by frequently evaluating, benchmarking, and prototyping emerging technologies to bring the best tool sets to the team and promoting a culture of continuous learning across the org.

4. Our stack

Python, TypeScript, PHP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GCP, Postgres and Datadog.

5. About you

We're looking for someone with strong fundamentals and the curiosity to keep growing. We are not looking for a checklist of past roles. If you don't tick every box below but feel excited about this mission, we genuinely encourage you to apply.

Must have

• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience, preferably in DevOps or Platform Engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of cross-functional infrastructure initiative. You can drive complex projects from design to delivery, working alongside multiple teams.
• Proven hands-on experience designing, building, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines end to end (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
• Strong hands-on experience building robust automation pipelines and modernizing local development environments.

Nice to have

• Production-grade proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (not necessarily Terraform) and container orchestration (not necessarily Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with an observability and monitoring stack (Datadog, Prometheus, or equivalent).
• Experience with local development environment tooling (Nix, mise, asdf, devenv, devcontainers, etc).
• Working knowledge of at least one language from Alma's stack (Python, TypeScript, or PHP) — enough to read, debug, and contribute when needed.

Mindset & ways of working

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a user-centric mindset where your users are your fellow engineers.
• A polyglot mindset and high curiosity: You enjoy dipping into different code bases and stacks (Python, TypeScript, PHP, etc.) and are excited to explore new tools to solve delivery engineering challenges.

Communication

• Fluent French (primary working language).
• Good level of English, for documentation, cross-team exchanges, and technical reading, writing as well as presenting.

6. Why join

The role itself

You'll work on a high-leverage domain: the infrastructure and tooling that directly shapes the productivity and confidence of every engineer at Alma. Your work will be visible, tangible, and meaningful. You'll have real ownership over your scope, the space to explore and prototype freely, and the support to take initiative. Work-life balance matters to us so we want this to be a place where you can do your best work sustainably.

The team & culture

The DevX squad runs in a dynamic, polyglot environment where learning together is a core team habit, not an afterthought. Decisions are made collectively, and new perspectives are genuinely valued. You'll be mentored and supported as you ramp up on Alma's infrastructure and team context. We believe in continuous feedback, mutual support, and building a team where everyone can thrive and progress. Career development conversations happen regularly and transparently. We are also committed to a flexible work environment: remote work is part of how we operate day-to-day.

7. Compensation & benefits

• Fixed salary on a 12-month base
• Profit sharing and employee savings plan: eligible after 3 months for year N+1
• Health insurance: 100% covered by Alma
• Disability insurance: 100% covered by Alma
• Sport: partnerships with Gymlib and Classpass, or reimbursement of 30 € / month for your sports activities
• Maternity/paternity leave: salary maintained at 100%, no seniority condition required
• Sustainable Mobility Package (FMD): 544.80 € / year (excluding full-remote contracts)
• Meal vouchers: 10 € / day, 50% covered by Alma
• Leave: 25 days/year + RTT
• Access to the Learning & Development Platform
• 2 weeks of full remote possible per year (in summer)
• Full Remote Possible

8. About the recruitment process

• Interview with Talent Acquisition (30 min)
• Interview with Engineering Manager (60 min)
• Take-home Technical test, followed by a remote feedback session (30 min)
• Live Infrastructure & System Design interview (60 min)
• Team Fit interview (60 min)

9. OUR VALUES

• Raise the bar
• Do the right thing
• Test, Learn, Repeat
• Make it happen
• Lead with humility

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

At Alma, we're committed to fostering an environment where diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values. Our goal is to attract and build a diverse, equal and inclusive team, where everyone feels welcome.

As an equal opportunities employer we make sure the application process and our workplace is for everyone.

Originally posted on Himalayas