Engineering Team Lead, DevEx

Mistral; Paris; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary

Equity package

Health insurance

Transportation allowance

Sport allowance

Meal vouchers

Private pension

Generous parental leave

Résumé du poste

Mistral is seeking a senior DevEx/DevOps leader to drive developer productivity across our AI platform stack in Paris. You will balance hands-on contribution with leadership, shaping tooling, infrastructure, and processes to accelerate delivery across AI Studio, Le Chat, and Mistral Vibe.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in DevEx/DevOps, strong scripting and IaC skills, and a track record of leading high-performing teams in tooling or infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevEx, DevOps or related fields.
• Master’s degree in CS/IT or related field.
• Proficient in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go; IaC experience.
• Experience leading high-performing developer tooling teams.
• Experience with cross-functional product, design and business teams.
• Proven ownership to ship tooling end-to-end.
• Strong CI/CD and cloud infra experience (GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, Azure).

Responsabilités

• Empower your team by removing obstacles and enabling impactful tooling.
• Own roadmap delivery for developer experience improvements incl. CI/CD, build systems.
• Bridge engineering and productivity by defining roadmaps and priorities.
• Hands-on leadership in architecture, coding reviews, and technical decisions.
• Define team processes and rituals for scalable workflows.
• Raise the bar by promoting knowledge sharing and rotating responsibilities.

Connaissances

DevEx experience

DevOps

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Go

IaC tools

CI/CD

Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Team leadership

Cross-functional

Formation

Master's degree in CS/IT

Outils

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Description du poste

About Mistral

At Mistral AI, we believe in the power of AI to simplify tasks, save time and enhance learning and creativity. Our technology is designed to integrate seamlessly into daily working life. We democratize AI through high-performance, optimized, open-source and cutting-edge models, products and solutions. Our comprehensive AI platform is designed to meet enterprise needs, whether on-premises or in cloud environments. Our offerings include Le Chat, the AI assistant for life and work. We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between France, USA, UK, Germany and Singapore. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited. Join us to be part of a pioneering company shaping the future of AI. Together, we can make a meaningful impact. See more about our culture on mistral.ai/careers.

Role summary

On average, our team leads are responsible for teams of about five people, owning both execution and delivery while remaining hands-on. You will split your time dynamically between individual contribution and leadership, with the balance shifting as your team grows. You will collaborate closely with engineering teams to ship improvements that directly accelerate development velocity, enhance code quality, and streamline workflows across our AI platform and products: AI Studio, Le Chat, and Mistral Vibe. You will be responsible for creating a strong team culture, setting clear processes, raising the developer experience bar, and ensuring consistent high-quality delivery of developer tooling and infrastructure. This is a highly critical role at the intersection of developer productivity, infrastructure, and people. You will help shape how our engineering organization builds at scale. If you enjoy building developer platforms, leading ambitious engineers, and shipping tooling that supercharges productivity, this role is for you.

What you will do

• Empower Your Team: Act as the clear point of contact for your team and its projects. Remove obstacles, unblock execution, and create an environment where engineers can focus on building impactful developer tools and platforms.
• Lead Delivery and Accountability: Own the delivery of your team’s roadmap for developer experience improvements, including projects like enhancing CI/CD and build systems, optimizing cloud registries (Docker, Azure, GCP), implementing static and dynamic code analysis tools, and automated vulnerability analysis. Ensure projects are shipped with the right level of quality, reliability, and performance.
• Bridge Engineering and Productivity: Partner closely with engineering teams to define the roadmap and priorities for developer experience. Scope initiatives, estimate engineering effort, and drive prioritization decisions based on developer productivity impact and technical necessity. Keep the whole team involved and engaged in the product direction.
• Hands-on Technical Leadership: Stay deeply involved in architecture design, system design, coding, peer reviews, and technical decision-making for developer tooling. Lead by example and remain connected to the day-to-day challenges of the team.
• Process and Clarity: Define and evolve team processes, best practices, and execution rituals for developer workflows. Ensure they remain relevant as the team and product scale.
• Raise the bar: Challenge engineers to step up, take ownership, and grow beyond their comfort zone. Increase the team’s bus factor through knowledge sharing, documentation, and rotation of responsibilities. Champion a culture of continuous improvement in developer productivity.

About you

• 5+ years of relevant professional work experience in Developer Experience (DevEx), DevOps, or related fields.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go) and experience with infrastructure as code tools.
• Experience with building and leading high-performing teams in developer tooling or infrastructure.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including product, design, and business.
• Experience with project management and planning for infrastructure and tooling initiatives.
• Ownership and capacity to ship developer tooling and platforms end-to-end.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), build systems, container registries, and developer tooling.

Our Culture

We are driven to build a strong company culture and are looking for individuals with solid alignment with the following:

• Reason with rigor
• Are you audacious enough?
• Make our customers succeed
• Ship early and accelerate
• Leave your ego aside

Engineering blog

Our first Engineering blog post is live. You can check it out above.

Location & Remote

The position is based in our Paris HQ offices and we encourage going to the office as much as we can (at least 3 days per week) to create bonds and smooth communication. Our remote policy aims to provide flexibility, improve work-life balance and increase productivity. Each manager can decide the amount of days worked remotely based on autonomy and a specific context (e.g. more flexibility can occur during summer). In any case, employees are expected to maintain regular communication with their teams and be available during core working hours.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Health insurance
• Transportation allowance
• Sport allowance
• Meal vouchers
• Private pension plan
• Generous parental leave policy

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