Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Staff Platform Engineer role sits in a mature SaaS context where the web surface is a primary product channel, and where reliability and security are inseparable from customer trust. The focus on quality-by-design, observability, and performance signals platform work that directly shapes how product teams ship and how users experience the service at scale, rather than isolated feature delivery.
For a SaaS career, the value is in developing leverage across the engineering organisation. Defining SLIs and SLOs, building CI/CD guardrails, and improving end-to-end testing are durable skills that translate across subscription products, especially where release confidence and incident prevention affect retention. The stack also reflects common modern SaaS web realities, TypeScript and React with practical tooling for monitoring and build systems, making the experience portable to other product-led environments.
This role suits an engineer operating at staff level who prefers cross-team influence over owning a single domain. It will appeal to someone who enjoys turning ambiguous quality problems into measurable standards, partnering with product and engineering leaders on trade-offs, and coaching through systems and frameworks. It also fits professionals who want a hybrid, office-anchored rhythm in Paris while working in an English-language engineering setting.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the role
We are seeking a Staff Engineer to elevate the reliability, performance, and quality-by-design of Dashlane’s Web Platform. This is a high-impact technical leadership role, shaping long-term architectural direction while enabling teams to deliver faster and more confidently at scale.
As a Staff Engineer, you will act as a trusted advisor and technical multiplier, designing platform-level quality and observability capabilities, influencing engineering decisions across teams, and embedding a security-first, reliability-driven culture. You will combine deep expertise in quality and testing with broad web and platform engineering knowledge to drive sustainable, measurable improvements to our engineering standards and user experience.
Location:
You will be based in Paris, with English as your working language. At Dashlane, we embrace a hybrid culture that combines the best of both worlds: the creativity and energy of in-person collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. Our model is designed to strengthen team connections while supporting individual productivity and work-life balance. To maximize collaboration, we come together in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, while Wednesdays and Fridays offer more flexibility for focused work.
About our stack:
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Programming language: Typescript, Javascript, React, RxJS
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Quality: Sonarqube, ESLint
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Testing: Jest, Karma, WebdriverIO, Cucumber
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Build: Webpack
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Versioning: Gitlab
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Monitoring: ELK, Tableau
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Documentation and tooling: Confluence, Gitlab, Zoom, Slack
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Misc: Gitlab CI, PNPM, Miro
At Dashlane you will:
- Drive the long-term technical vision for Web Platform quality and reliability, shaping architecture with a strong focus on performance, testability, security, and quality-by-design.
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Design and enable platform-level quality capabilities (testing frameworks, observability standards, CI/CD guardrails, and tooling) that empower multiple teams to ship faster, safer, and with higher confidence.
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Act as a technical leader and multiplier, identifying systemic gaps, driving high-leverage improvements, and ensuring measurable outcomes in Web Platform reliability, stability, and engineering standards.
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Define, implement, and evolve SLIs and SLOs from a web perspective, ensuring reliability and performance targets are aligned with user experience and business priorities.
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Raise the engineering bar across teams by coaching, mentoring, and influencing engineers, while continuously learning and sharing knowledge to foster a culture of technical curiosity, craftsmanship, security, and engineering excellence.
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Partner closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and cross-functional teams, influencing prioritization and decision-making by clearly articulating trade-offs between engineering excellence and business needs.
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Lead and optimize end-to-end testing strategies, improving test effectiveness, execution speed, and confidence in production releases at scale.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of experience in software development
- 3+ years of experience with JavaScript or TypeScript development
- 3+ years of experience with frameworks such as React, AngularJS or VueJS
- 4+ years of experience working in a product-focused company
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team
- Fluency in English
We're Also Looking For:
- Prior experience defining and implementing SLIs and SLOs from web perspective, with a focus on performance, reliability, and user experience
- Strong knowledge of end-to-end testing best practices and test framework optimization to improve quality and execution speed
- Willingness to develop a T-shaped skill set, combining deep expertise in quality and observability with broad platform and web engineering knowledge
- Experience with web extensions and their specific monitoring challenges
What Dashlane offers you:
- Equal Parental leave - regardless of gender, up to 20 weeks fully paid leave to take care of their new baby, within the first year of birth or adoption
- Health insurance is covered by Dashlane
- Mentorship program - select your mentor from our internal pool and continue your learning path!
- Commute allowance
- Meal Vouchers (Swile)
- Mental health services through Spring Health for you and your family members
- 4 extra days off (one per quarter) to acknowledge the importance of your wellbeing
- Spot in daycare
- Time off saving account
- Donation matching program - give back to the community and support actions that lead to positive social impact under the historically marginalized communities. Every donation will be matched by Dashlane
- Team buildings & seasonal social events
- Weekly lunch in the office and monthly happy hour
- and many more!
