Senior DevOps Engineer

🧡 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 +25,000 merchants and 10 million consumers. With 380+ Almakers and €100M+ ARR, Alma is scaling rapidly across Europe as a member of the Next40, and we're just getting started!   👐 ABOUT THE TEAM  The Developer Experience (DevX) squad is 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. This is a full-time position, based in Paris or fully remote in France.   💼 ABOUT THE JOB * 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.   🧰 YOU WILL WORK WITH Python, TypeScript, PHP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GCP, Postgres and Datadog.   🧩 ABOUT YOU To succeed in this job * You've built at least 5 years of experience in a relevant role, ideally in DevOps or Platform Engineering. * You take ownership of cross-functional infrastructure initiatives, driving complex projects from design to delivery alongside multiple teams. * You have hands-on experience designing, building, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines end to end (GitHub Actions or equivalent). * You're comfortable building robust automation pipelines and modernizing local development environments. * You are fluent in french (primary working language) with a good level of English, for documentation, cross-team exchanges, and technical reading, writing as well as presenting. And it will be nice if you also * Have production-grade proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (not necessarily Terraform) and container orchestration (not necessarily Kubernetes). * Are familiar with an observability and monitoring stack (Datadog, Prometheus, or equivalent). * Have worked 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. Don't meet every single requirement? At Alma, we believe great hires come from diverse paths. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply. We value potential, curiosity and the ability to grow as much as experience.   🧘 WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU If you join, you will be able to grow and impact on: * The infrastructure and tooling that directly shapes the productivity and confidence of every engineer at Alma. You'll have real ownership over your scope, the space to explore and prototype freely, and the support to take initiative. * The DevX squad, a dynamic, polyglot team where learning together is a core habit, not an afterthought. * Alma's growth across Europe, as the infrastructure you build directly enables us to scale reliably across 10 markets and more in the future, your work has a clear and measurable line to the business.   🤑 COMPENSATION & BENEFITS * Competitive salary based on 12 months * Profit-sharing and employee savings plan * Health insurance: 100% covered by Alma including family package * Disability insurance: 100% covered by Alma * Sport: partnerships with Gymlib and Classpass, or €30/month reimbursement for your sports activities * Maternity/paternity leave: salary maintained at 100% during leave with no seniority requirement. Return to work at 4/5 schedule paid at 100% for 8 weeks. * Sustainable Mobility Package (FMD): €544.80/year (excluding full-remote contracts) * Meal vouchers: €10/day, 50% covered by Alma * Mental health: free access to MindDay platform * Paid time off: 25 days/year ****(+ additional paid leave granted for employees on executive contracts) * Access to our Learning & Development Platform * 2 weeks of full remote possible per year in summer for people working in hybrid remote   🎯 INTERVIEW PROCESS * Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member to understand your path, motivation & present you the role. * Video call with your future manager to deep dive the role, the team, your profile and answer all your questions. * Case study presentation with 2 - 3 team members (ideally in house) to assess your practical knowledge**.** * Take-home coding test, followed by a remote feedback session. * Live system design interview to assess your practical and architectural knowledge. * A coffee chat with the squad you’ll join to further assess your skills and team fit.   🌍 DIVERSITY & INCLUSION At Alma, we believe that diversity fuels innovation and makes our community stronger. We are committed to building a workplace where every person feels seen, respected, and empowered to do their best work whatever their gender, background, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability or lived experience. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applicants from all walks of life, and all employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.

Since being founded in 2018, Copper has been building the standard for institutional digital asset infrastructure with a focus on custody, collateral management, and prime services. Led by Amar Kuchinad, Copper's Global CEO, the firm provides a comprehensive suite of custody, trading and settlement solutions that reduce counterparty risk and bring greater capital and operational efficiency to digital asset markets. At the heart of Copper's offering is Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology – the gold standard in secure custody. Copper’s multi-award winning custody system is unique in that it can be connected to centralised exchanges, DeFi applications and even staking pools without the assets leaving the custody. Built on top of this state-of-the-art custody, ClearLoop is the first solution in the market that overcomes a growing industry challenge; counterparty risk with exchanges. This solution underpins a full prime services offering, connecting global exchanges, and enabling customers to trade and settle directly from the safety of their MPC-secured wallets. By reducing settlement time for transfers to a few milliseconds (without blockchain network dependency) and offering enhanced security measures, ClearLoop is rapidly reshaping the way asset managers trade and manage capital. In addition to industry-leading security certifications, Copper has one of the strongest insurance coverages in the industry from an A+ rated insurer, positioning the firm as the partner of choice for institutions seeking to safeguard their assets. Department/Team Purpose:   The Engineering department is the backbone of Copper; entrusted with the critical responsibility of building and securing the infrastructure that safeguards billions of dollars in digital assets. We operate at the intersection of traditional institutional finance and decentralized blockchain technology.  We believe the best infrastructure comes from curious minds working openly together. Our engineering organisation brings together people with diverse backgrounds and experiences who genuinely enjoy solving hard problems. We foster a blame-free, intellectually honest environment where you're encouraged to take thoughtful risks and think big. You'll have the autonomy to own meaningful projects while gaining the support you need to grow your skills and advance your career.  Role Purpose:   We’re looking for a Senior DevOps engineer at the intersection of software development and platform engineering. In this role, your focus will be enabling fast, reliable, and secure delivery of our systems, whilst continuously improving how our infrastructure is built and operated, including our blockchain environments.  Day-to-day, you’ll tackle platform and deployment challenges through pragmatic engineering and automation. You’ll build and operate scalable, self-service infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and blockchain platforms, including node provisioning, network deployment, and lifecycle management. You’ll optimise build and release pipelines, improve system resilience, and ensure ‘traditional’ and blockchain infrastructure can scale with the needs of the business.  You will collaborate closely with engineering and SRE teams, focusing on infrastructure as code, developer experience, and operational scalability across the engineering organisation, with ownership of the reliability and performance of blockchain nodes and supporting systems.  Key Responsibilities:    * Building a fault-tolerant, geographically distributed infrastructure: support of multiple data centres, providing replication, sharding, auto balancing and failover.  * Participating in deployment of services with strict availability requirements on a large-scale environment and working together with other Engineers to ensure our systems meet current and future demand.  * Develop and maintain code for automated infrastructure management (DevOps, Infrastructure as Code) with the use of Ansible and Terraform.  * Working collaboratively with the Backend Engineering team to increase our resilience through insightful systems and application metrics.  * Improving our CI/CD pipeline to provide new integration vectors. Building and maintaining infrastructure for its own fleet of blockchain nodes (>25 layer 1 protocols now, and more to come)  * On-Call support to ensure 24/7 availability of all systems.   Skills and Experience:   Essential    * 5+ year's experience as a DevOps Engineer operating production-grade infrastructure.  * Hands-on experience running and maintaining blockchain infrastructure (e.g. node deployment, syncing, upgrades, monitoring, and troubleshooting).  * Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation) and automated environment provisioning.  * Strong experience with containerisation and Kubernetes, including production operations and cluster management; EKS preferred.  * Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and deployment tools such as ArgoCD.  * Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, load balancing, DNS, firewalls).  * Experience implementing and operating secure systems (IAM, secrets management, network security controls, vulnerability management).  * Proficiency with at least one development language (e.g., bash, Python, Go).  * Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems and production environments.  * Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.  * Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.  Desirable    * Experience working within crypto organisation  * Experience in Financial Services   Why Copper?    At Copper, we keep innovation, openness, and curiosity at the centre of everything we do. Here, bold ideas get the spotlight, learning is constant, and diversity shapes our team from the ground up.  Jump into a fast-moving, dynamic team that loves a challenge and knows how to have fun along the way. Collaboration is just as important as results—you’ll be surrounded by smart, driven colleagues in London and across our APAC, Switzerland, UAE, and US offices.  Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the adaptability of flexibly working.  Diversity and inclusion matter to us – they’re woven into Copper life. From employee-led groups like Women at Copper to a committee focused on community and wellbeing, you’ll have a network that supports you from day one. Everyone voice matters.   If you’re looking to ramp up your career, or keen to do something new in your field, with us, you’ll keep moving forward.  Ready to make your mark, keep growing, and join a supportive, dynamic team? Copper’s the place.  The interview process at Copper    Our interview process is designed to be thoughtful, efficient, and engaging. While specific steps may vary slightly depending on the role, the typical journey includes:  1. Initial Screening A brief conversation with our Talent Acquisition team to explore your background, motivations, and alignment with the role.  1. Technical Interview A virtual session conducted via Microsoft Teams, where you'll engage with team members to discuss relevant skills, problem-solving approaches, and technical experience.  1. In-Person Interview A conversation focused on team dynamics, collaboration style, and any final technical questions. This may be with cross-functional peers or leadership.  Additional steps may be added based on the role's complexity or seniority. We aim to keep the process transparent and respectful of your time.  Benefits   In return for everything you can bring to Copper, we can offer you an exciting, challenging role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with career opportunities and welcoming working environment. Some of our key UK benefits are highlighted below:   * Paid Time Off - A minimum of 35 days of paid time off per year, inclusive of annual leave and public holidays. Employees also receive one additional day of annual leave for each year of service.  * Comprehensive Medical Insurance - Inclusive of dental, optical, audiology, and mental health coverage, with medical history disregarded  * Life Insurance  * Enhanced Pension Contributions - Includes an enhanced employer matching contribution  * 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)  If you think you have everything we're looking for and more, then we'd love you to apply for the opportunity.   Copper is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and equal opportunities in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. So, bring us your experience, perspectives, and skills. It is in our differences that we will continue to grow and ensure Copper is transforming how institutional investors engage with digital assets. Copper is a Disability Confident Employer, please let us know if you have a disability. If you require us to provide any assistance during the recruitment process, then we would ask you to highlight this to us and we will be happy to accommodate.