Founding Storage Engineering Manager — Go & Distributed Storage

Lindus Health Limited; Madrid; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Parental leave

Retirement plans

Relocation support

Wellness programs

Meal and transportation allowances

Other location-specific perks

Job summary

Mistral is building a sovereign AI cloud for Europe. We are seeking a founding EM for storage who will design, implement, and scale the storage stack (block, file, object) for training runs and compute workloads. From day one, you will hire and coach engineers, own capacity planning across datacenters, and shape the storage roadmap in collaboration with product teams.

You will decide what to build vs. buy, develop Go services, and ensure durable, scalable data storage across our European

Qualifications

• 2+ years of real people leadership managing engineers.
• Experience building storage systems (object/block/distributed filesystems).
• Deep distributed-systems fundamentals: durability, consistency, replication, erasure coding.
• Shipped production systems in Go; able to write Go daily.
• Familiarity with HDD/SSD/NVMe tiers and their economics.
• 8+ years building backend or infrastructure systems.
• Collaborated with product, design, and business teams to ship software.
• Low-ego, team-first mindset.

Responsibilities

• Stand up the storage stack — block, file, object — for training and compute workloads.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions; design and write services in Go where needed.
• Own the data plane: allocation, duplication, tiering, backup and recovery, S3-compatible APIs.
• Plan capacity across datacenters and failure domains.
• Build the team from zero: hire, onboard, coach, and define growth paths.
• Partner with Product Managers to shape the storage roadmap and tradeoffs.

Skills

People leadership

Go programming

Distributed systems

Backend infrastructure

Hardware awareness (HDD/SSD/NVMe)

Team-building

Product collaboration

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

S3-compatible APIs

Job description

Mistral is building a sovereign AI cloud for Europe. We are seeking a founding EM for storage who will design, implement, and scale the storage stack (block, file, object) for training runs and compute workloads. From day one, you will hire and coach engineers, own capacity planning across datacenters, and shape the storage roadmap in collaboration with product teams.

You will decide what to build vs. buy, develop Go services, and ensure durable, scalable data storage across our European