--- title: 'Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at amo' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/lead-site-reliability-engineer-sre-amo-paris-wbjb0fcpy5yj' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at amo - **Company:** amo - **Location:** Paris, France - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2025-02-10 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/amo/11ad3081-f6a0-4150-8681-4246d3cfa3e1/application **Skills:** System Architecture, Software Development, Rust, Go, Monitoring Tools, Alerting Tools, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, CI/CD > Lead the infrastructure vision and roadmap for high-scale distributed systems, focusing on performance, reliability, and automation. Manage distributed databases, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines while partnering with backend engineers to ensure scalable and secure global operations. ## Job description In the initial months, you'll be working closely with the founding team, gradually taking ownership of central components. We are on the brink of something monumental, anticipating a tidal wave of traffic. You'll be at the forefront of ensuring our systems not only handle the influx but thrive under the pressure. We focus on performance and reliability, our traffic is live and our latency is the most important metric we need to watch. We work very closely with the backend team, helping everyone to bring code in production. Automation is key as it is for most of our industry, if you need to repeat a task, automate it; for everything. AS A LEAD SRE, YOUR DAY-TO-DAY WILL INCLUDE: ## VISION AND LEADERSHIP You’ll define and lead the long-term infrastructure vision and roadmap, ensuring amo’s systems remain reliable, scalable, and secure as we grow globally. You’ll guide a small, high-performing team of SRE engineers, setting a clear direction while staying close to execution. You’ll cultivate a culture of reliability, ownership, and technical excellence, one that balances speed and stability every day. ## SYSTEM DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT You’ll designing and maintaining distributed databases at large scale across multiple clusters (ScyllaDB). Along with testing, scaling, designing high throughput monitoring infrastructure to handle 1M+ series per second. ## AUTOMATION AND EFFICIENCY Our north star is to eradicate every manual step, automate everything from the ground up, and make it as quick as possible. That means automating everything from monitoring dashboards to database installations or cluster management. Including automated Kubernetes Pod Autoscaler to achieve close to 90% CPU usage per machine while maintaining high-quality services and containing costs. ## BACKEND TEAM PARTNERSHIP Partnering with software engineers is not a concept or part of a process, it’s our daily life, making us part of the engineering team as much as any other. And working with our partners (GCP, ScyllaDB, Redpanda …) to help us push their products to the limit. ## SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND DEVELOPMENT You’ll code - being SRE at amo means being a Software Engineer. It also means building CI/CD pipelines, and bringing to production new concepts, new tools to help the company grow faster. ## YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE - Strong understanding of system architecture and software development. - Proficiency in at least one low-level language, ideally Rust or Go. - Strong knowledge with monitoring and alerting tools. - Experience with Kubernetes. - Knowledge of cloud platforms and infrastructure, including strong proficiency in AWS and/or GCP. - Proven success in scaling high-traffic production environments with a focus on reliability and performance. - Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and influence cross-functional teams. - Pragmatic, hands-on, and comfortable moving between strategy and execution. ## LIFE AT AMO To ensure that everyone is set up for success within our way of working, we work together onsite 5 days a week. We wanted to make sure coming to the office was as comfortable as possible for you: - We chose a location in central Paris, near Opera (Metro lines 3,8,9 and RER A). - We have a beautiful Parisian-style office with high ceilings, balconies, and huge windows. So a lot of natural light! Because life outside of work should also be stress-free, we cover: - Health care (100% coverage). - Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave, Second Parent Leave (salary maintained at 100%). - Vacation days: 8-9 weeks (total) per year - (European summer? 🥹😎). - 5 weeks of paid time off (by the state); - 1-2 additional weeks (RTT, based on our company contract); - ~11 bank holidays. We shut down entirely twice a year, two weeks in summer and one week in winter to allow everyone to truly recharge and to avoid prolonged slowdowns (especially in the summer). These pauses are part of your total vacation time, giving everyone a real chance to unplug and recharge. No Slack, no email, no FOMO. We love the diverse perspectives we get from having people from all over the world join us (68% of our team is international), and so we of course support relocation to Paris with: - Help and sponsored visa process. - 1 month of Airbnb 100% covered by amo upon arrival. - Assistance from a trusted relocation agency to find your permanent home. - Help with french paperwork like opening a french social security account, tax forms, getting your carte vitale (free healthcare) and more. - French lessons to be fully set with your new Parisian life. ## About amo ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: amo is building a collection of social apps (ID, Bump, Sugar) designed to bring friends closer together in a digital space, moving away from scrolling strangers to sharing moments with real friends. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed) - **Headquarters**: Paris, France - **Founded**: Not publicly available - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Consumer social media / mobile applications - Target customers: B2C – individuals and their friend groups, especially those who want a more private, friend-focused online experience - Mission or purpose statement: “We believe that friendship still deserves a place online.” (from amo.co) ## Products & Services - **ID**: A collaborative social profile board where you and your friends can express yourselves together. - **Bump**: A map app “for friends” that gives you a new home on your phone for the people and places most important to you. - **Sugar**: A chat app that goes beyond the traditional messaging bubble, offering an unlimited canvas to turn conversations into art. All three apps share a single profile, friendships, and settings across the amo ecosystem, allowing users to pick and choose what they use. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Latest Funding**: Not publicly disclosed. The company states it is “backed by some of the best tier-1 investors in the world” and is “growing at a pace that hasn’t been seen in our space in the past five years.” - **Key Metric**: 148 total employees (per Built In profile as of mid-2026) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named in available sources, but described as “tier-1 investors.” - **Growth Signals**: 17 nationalities represented; over half the team is international; one in four employees relocated cities or countries to join; multiple senior engineering roles open across Android, iOS, backend (Rust, Safety, AI), SRE, and product design. ## Competitive Advantages - **Multi-app ecosystem with a shared identity**: Unlike single-app social platforms, amo’s suite lets users carry their profile and friends across apps without redundancy. - **Friend-first focus**: The company deliberately avoids the “scrolling strangers” model and builds features that mirror real-life friend interactions (maps, collaborative boards, creative chat). - **Velocity and experimentation**: The culture values speed, quick iteration, and learning from mistakes; new apps are released independently rather than crammed into one tab bar. - **Global talent strategy**: An intentionally international team with relocation support and English as the working language, enabling access to top talent worldwide. ## Strategic Focus - **Expand the app ecosystem**: Continue launching new, standalone apps that serve specific friend-group needs. - **Balance art and science**: Blend creative, fun product design (“making people smile”) with rigorous engineering and data-driven decisions. - **Scale the team**: Active hiring across engineering, AI, SRE, product design, and recruiting – with an emphasis on in-office collaboration in Paris. - **Maintain a lean, performance-driven culture**: Emphasize outcomes over busywork, fast decision-making, and a “healthy intensity.” ## Why Work Here - Culture highlights: “Velocity over all else,” high ownership, conviction over consensus, fast iteration. The company describes itself as a “performance machine” where ambitious goals are set and celebrated. The team is described as “a group of friends who have spent our lives building stuff for friends.” - Remote/hybrid/office policy: In-office at the Paris headquarters. Relocation support is provided, and one in four employees has moved to join. - Notable perks or engineering culture: Structured, bias-mitigating interviews with a fast decision cycle (average 72 hours). Technical depth is valued – interviews include debugging real code, concurrency/design, and cultural panels that include a team lunch. The engineering stack involves Rust, AI, Android, iOS, and SRE roles. - Diversity: 17 nationalities, English as the working language (no English required at hire, but learned within months), and a global hiring philosophy. ## Sources 1. [amo.co](https://amo.co/) 2. [amo Careers Page](https://amo.co/jobs/) 3. [Built In Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/amo) 4. [amo Interview Process](https://amo.co/interview-at-amo/) 5. 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