Brevo

Overview

We are looking for a Distinguished Engineer 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. 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.

About Brevo

At Brevo, we’re not just building a CRM. With our technology, we’re helping millions of organizations build lasting relationships with their customers. From emails and SMS to WhatsApp, Chat, and Marketing Automation, our tools are intuitive, powerful, and built to scale with every ambition. We give businesses a clear view of the customer journey, s

Requirements & Eligibility

• You have already operated at Principal, Distinguished, Senior Principal, Fellow, or equivalent level within a significantly larger engineering organization.
• You have repeatedly led transformations involving hundreds of engineers or large service fleets, distributed systems and production infrastructure.
• 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Own a small number of high-impact technical transformations end to end: architecture, implementation strategy, migration, adoption and retirement of legacy systems.
• Rebuild our CI/CD and deployment architecture across hundreds of services and repositories.
• Replace fragmented logging and observability patterns with an OpenTelemetry-based platform backed by ClickHouse.
• Redesign how we use Kafka and introducing stronger platform abstractions around messaging.
• Turn ClickHouse into a first-class internal product rather than a database consumed inconsistently across teams.
• Define and drive common standards around service communication, reliability, runtime architecture and developer platforms.