Founding Engineering Team Lead, Storage Platform

Mistral.ai; Paris; Sur place; EUR 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Healthcare coverage

Relocation support

Wellness programs

Meal and transportation allowances

Résumé du poste

Mistral.ai, a leading regional AI infrastructure innovator, seeks a founding Engineering Team Lead for storage on our cloud. You will design, build, and scale the storage stack—from block and file to S3‑compatible object storage—and own capacity across datacenters.

You will hire and coach the first engineers, set growth paths, and balance hands‑on development with people leadership as the team expands. You will shape architecture, drive vendor decisions, and ensure durable storage for training

Qualifications

• 2+ years of real people leadership (hiring, coaching, giving feedback).
• Built storage systems – object, block, or distributed filesystems, not just operated them.
• Shipped production systems in Go.
• Experience with HDD/SSD/NVMe tiers and storage economics.
• 8+ years building backend or infrastructure systems.

Responsabilités

• Stand up the storage stack - block, file, object - for training, sandbox, and general compute workloads.
• Make build‑vs‑buy calls: deploy and harden vendor platforms; write our own 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, set growth paths, define ownership standards.
• Partner with Product Managers to shape the storage roadmap and tradeoffs.

Connaissances

Leadership

Go programming

Distributed systems

Storage systems

Backend development

Outils

Go

S3-compatible APIs

Description du poste

Mistral.ai, a leading regional AI infrastructure innovator, seeks a founding Engineering Team Lead for storage on our cloud. You will design, build, and scale the storage stack—from block and file to S3‑compatible object storage—and own capacity across datacenters.

You will hire and coach the first engineers, set growth paths, and balance hands‑on development with people leadership as the team expands. You will shape architecture, drive vendor decisions, and ensure durable storage for training