DevEx Engineering Lead: Accelerate Developer Productivity

Mistral; Paris; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Mistral is seeking a seasoned leader to drive developer experience and infrastructure initiatives. You will guide a small team, balance hands-on work with strategic leadership, and partner with engineering to accelerate velocity across tooling and platforms.

You will own CI/CD improvements, cloud integrations, and process enhancements while mentoring engineers and shaping scalable developer platforms for the company.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership of developer experience or infrastructure teams.
• Strong background implementing and improving CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience coordinating with product, design and business units.
• Hands-on with scripting languages and IaC tooling.
• Proven ability to ship developer tooling end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of the team roadmap for developer experience improvements.
• Own architecture and design reviews for developer tooling and platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering to define priorities and roadmaps.
• Improve CI/CD, build systems, and cloud registries.
• Foster a culture of high-quality delivery and knowledge sharing.
• Mentor engineers and raise the bus factor through rotation and documentation.

Skills

DevEx leadership

CI/CD mastery

Cross-functional collaboration

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Go

Infrastructure as code

Team building

Architectural design

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Mistral is seeking a seasoned leader to drive developer experience and infrastructure initiatives. You will guide a small team, balance hands-on work with strategic leadership, and partner with engineering to accelerate velocity across tooling and platforms.

You will own CI/CD improvements, cloud integrations, and process enhancements while mentoring engineers and shaping scalable developer platforms for the company.