Site Reliability Engineer

About us

Photoroom launched in 2020 after being accepted into Y Combinator and has become the world's most popular AI photo editor over the past four years. Our goal is to create the technology allowing anyone create studio-level product images in minutes.

With over 300 million downloads and processing 5+ billion images annually, we serve both individual creators and major enterprises like Amazon, DoorDash, and Decathlon through our B2C app and B2B API solutions.

We're a profitable, remote-friendly company that has raised Series B funding and aims for 40% year-over-year growth. Our team of 100+ passionate builders focuses on craft, innovation, and collaboration, creating exceptional impact for entrepreneurs and businesses worldwide.

TL;DR

🤓 PhotoRoom is looking for a talented Site Reliability Engineer to help scale its growing AI backend infrastructure. You will work on a backend millions of users are relying on: 100’s of QPS, state of the art models. You’ll be focused on the Machine Leaning workload, working hand in hand with the ML, mobile & web team, your impact will be huge. It is the opportunity to work on a product acclaimed by Apple & Google (Best of 2021, Editor's Choice), solve complex backend challenges, and make a decisive difference to our users.

💰70€-100k€* depending on experience + Stock-Options/BSPCE

🇪🇺 We are flexible: you can work from anywhere in Europe, come once a month to Paris (fully reimbursed), or visit the Paris office more often.

✈️ We offer substantial support for relocation (10k€ relocation bonus) in France, including finding an apartment in Paris and supporting you with the visa procedure.

🛂 We currently sponsor visas for individuals relocating to France or already based here. We are unable to sponsor visas for remote positions outside of France at this time.

💻 Technology - new MacBook Pro, monitor, keyboard, etc.

🏖️ Socials - Twice annual company retreats, weekly Happy Hour & Game Time

🇬🇧 PhotoRoom is an international team, and we work in English. We offer language lessons for those who need them (English & French).

*We can go higher for outstanding profiles and adapt to the cost of living if it is higher than in Paris.

✨ About the role ****✨

• You’ll be the owner of the Machine Learning Inference Infrastructure at PhotoRoom, processing millions of requests on GPU every day.

• You’ll be responsible for the infrastructure deploying and running containers provided by the ML team

• You will architect cloud-agnostic solutions to better serve current and future needs, in a fast moving and diverse field. Requests can take ms to seconds, payloads be in the 10s of MB

• You will own your work from A to Z: it goes from working on the architecture & coding features to monitoring releases' performance (we use Datadog for monitoring)

• You will get fast feedback from our users and other members of the machine learning team. You will iterate quickly. You will follow the usage of the product and make decisions based on that

• You will work within a small multicultural team composed of ~70 passionate, friendly & committed folks

• [Optional] You’ll be on call to monitor system performance
  
  

✨ About you ✨

• You have experience with load balancing, autoscaling and queuing systems at scale

• You have experience with low-latency realtime systems

• You have experience building a reliable and redundant backend

• No experience with Machine Learning needed (although it’s a bonus)

• You have experience building backends to run long-running tasks (in the seconds)

• You have designed infrastructure to deploy containers receiving a high number of QPS while maintaining a great developer experience

• You are always the most pragmatic person in the room. You favor speed of iteration over perfection, always leverage frameworks and libraries to avoid reinventing the wheel.

• You have a strong sense of ownership. You take initiative and you are at ease to make product & technical decisions.

• You have worked as part of a talented team and have experience in a fast-growing startup.

• You’re curious, are comfortable with explaining or learning depending on the situation. The team has deep expertise and values knowledge sharing and humility.

• You are fluent in English (French is not required!)

If you think you have what it takes but don't meet every single point above, please still apply. We'd love to chat and see if you could be a great fit.

✨ Hiring Process ✨

• Screening call with the Talent Manager

• Technical interview with the Hiring Manager

• Home technical assignment, followed by a review with the team (can be compensated and under 3h)

• Culture fit interviews and meet the team!

• Reference check & Offer
  

Support - If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best, please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

We're committed to enabling everyone to feel included and valued at work. We believe our company and culture are strongest when composed of diverse experiences and backgrounds.

That's also why we have flexible working hours, trust people to work remotely, and extended parental leave.

All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, family, gender identity, marital status, national origin, physical or mental disability, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.