Founding Storage Engineering Manager

Mistral; France; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Parental leave

Retirement plans

Relocation support

Wellness programs

Meal and transportation allowances

Job summary

Mistral is seeking a founding storage engineering leader to build and scale the Sovereign AI cloud’s storage stack in Europe. You will design block, file, and object storage, and hire and mentor the first engineers.

You will decide what to build or buy, own capacity planning across datacenters, and lead the team from day one with hands-on contributions. This role blends architecture and people leadership in a fast-paced AI-focused environment, with ownership of both the stack and the team as the

Qualifications

• 2+ years of real people leadership including hiring and coaching engineers.

Responsibilities

• Stand up the storage stack — block, file, object — for training, sandbox, and general compute workloads.

Skills

People leadership

Storage systems

Distributed systems

Go

Capacity planning

Team building

Product collaboration

Tools

Go

S3-compatible APIs

Job description

Mistral is seeking a founding storage engineering leader to build and scale the Sovereign AI cloud’s storage stack in Europe. You will design block, file, and object storage, and hire and mentor the first engineers.

You will decide what to build or buy, own capacity planning across datacenters, and lead the team from day one with hands-on contributions. This role blends architecture and people leadership in a fast-paced AI-focused environment, with ownership of both the stack and the team as the