Distinguished Engineer

<div>At Brevo, we’re not just building a CRM. With our technology, <b>we’re helping millions of organizations build lasting relationships with their customers.</b></div><div><br></div><div>From emails and SMS to WhatsApp, Chat, and Marketing Automation, <b>our tools are intuitive, powerful, and built to scale with every ambition.</b> We give businesses a clear view of the customer journey, so they can focus on what matters: connection.</div><div><br></div><div>As a <b>certified B Corp</b>, we’re proud to grow with purpose, committed to high standards of social and environmental impact, not just performance.</div><div><br></div><div>Today, more than <b>500,000 businesses</b> across <b>180 countries</b>—from NGOs like Amnesty International to global brands like Carrefour, eBay, Louis Vuitton, and Michelin—trust Brevo to engage their audiences, cut through complexity, and deliver results. Our <b>reliable technology</b> and <b>75+ integrations</b> help them create <b>unparalleled customer experiences,</b> without the usual tech headaches.</div><div><br></div><div>We recently exceeded 200m ARR and reached a major milestone by <b>becoming a Unicorn</b>, backed by strong growth and global expansion - and we’re just getting started!</div><div><br></div><div><strong>The role</strong>:</div> <p>We are looking for a&nbsp;<strong>Distinguished Engineer</strong> based in our Paris office to lead the technical transformations that are too large, too cross-cutting, or too critical to belong to a single engineering team.</p> <p>This is a company-wide IC role with direct report to the CTO and explicit authority to drive major technical decisions across Product Engineering, Platform, Infrastructure and Data.</p> <p>This isn't an advisory role, it's a mandate to change how <strong>Brevo Engineering works at a foundational level</strong></p> <br><strong>What you will do:</strong><br><p>You will own a small number of high-impact technical transformations end to end: architecture, implementation strategy, migration, adoption and retirement of legacy systems.</p> <p>Examples include:</p> <li>rebuilding our CI/CD and deployment architecture across hundreds of services and repositories;</li> <li>replacing fragmented logging and observability patterns with an OpenTelemetry-based platform backed by ClickHouse;</li> <li>redesigning how we use Kafka and introducing stronger platform abstractions around messaging;</li> <li>turning ClickHouse into a first-class internal product rather than a database consumed inconsistently across teams;</li> <li>defining and driving common standards around service communication, reliability, runtime architecture and developer platforms.</li> <p>These initiatives will cross organizational boundaries and require changes to both infrastructure and application code.</p> <p>Your responsibility is to own the projects end to end, driving them through every stage and resolving whatever obstacles arise until it is delivered.</p> <br><strong>Who you are:</strong><br><div> <li>You have already operated at Principal, Distinguished, Senior Principal, Fellow, or equivalent level within a significantly larger engineering organization.</li> <li>You have repeatedly led transformations involving </li><li>hundreds of engineers or large service fleets,</li> <li>distributed systems and production infrastructure,</li> <li>complex migrations where old and new worlds had to coexist,</li> <li>strong technical disagreement across senior teams,</li> <li>and architecture decisions with broad and lasting consequences.</li> <li>You move fluidly between a system design discussion, a code review, a production incident, a migration plan, and an executive-level technical decision.</li> <li>You bring deep expertise in several of the following: Kubernetes, CI/CD, Kafka, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, distributed databases, service communication, developer platforms, and large-scale observability.</li> </div><div>Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, if this role speaks to you, we’d love to hear from you.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.fr/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in France</a> on Arbeitnow</a>