Founding AI SRE Engineer - Build Scalable Reliability

Mistral; Paris; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Mistral is seeking founding engineers for the Applied AI SRE sub-team in Munich. You will build and operate a framework to ensure reliable, scalable delivery across both Mistral-hosted and customer-hosted deployments.

You will own on-call, incident response, and security baselines, enabling on-demand provisioning and end-to-end reliability across multi-tenant environments. Strong Kubernetes, IaC, and programming skills are essential to succeed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, or DevOps with a track record of shipping tooling.
• Strong multi-tenant Kubernetes fluency, namespace segmentation, network policy, RBAC, admission control at scale.
• On-call discipline: incident response, blameless post-mortems, runbook-first mindset.
• Observability stack in production: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Tempo, Signoz.
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Ansible or equivalents.
• Proficient in Python and/or Golang for tooling and automation.

Responsibilities

• BUILD the fleet of Mistral platforms and apps with proactivity and reliability, create SLO templates and runbooks.
• RUN Tier-1 customer environments, ensure SLO compliance, own on-call and incident response.
• ENABLE productization of deployment, security baselines, and automation across Applied AI solutions.
• SECURE oversee security operations for customer deployments, CVE response, SBOM and provenance controls.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Kubernetes

Observability

Python/Golang

On-call / Incident

Security mindset

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

OpenTelemetry

Loki

Tempo

Signoz

Job description

Mistral is seeking founding engineers for the Applied AI SRE sub-team in Munich. You will build and operate a framework to ensure reliable, scalable delivery across both Mistral-hosted and customer-hosted deployments.

You will own on-call, incident response, and security baselines, enabling on-demand provisioning and end-to-end reliability across multi-tenant environments. Strong Kubernetes, IaC, and programming skills are essential to succeed.