Kubernetes & GPU Infra Engineering Lead

Mistral; Paris; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

Mistral is seeking a senior Kubernetes leader to guide the Cloud Platform team from day one. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and own the control plane end-to-end in our in-house infra—half architecture, half people leadership.

You will define scaling strategies for GPU-enabled workloads, ensure reliable production systems, and collaborate with product, design, and business partners to turn frontier AI research into scalable customer solutions. This is a hands-on leadership role.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of real people leadership.
• Shipped production systems in Go.
• Shipped Kubernetes in anger or built parts of it.
• Experience running GPU workloads on Kubernetes.
• Experience building backend or infrastructure systems.
• Collaborated with product, design, and business teams.
• Low-ego, team-first mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship the Kubernetes control plane and architecture.
• Grow and mentor engineers, remove obstacles, widen ownership.
• Own reliability of the Kubernetes control plane and respond to incidents.

Skills

People leadership

Go production

Kubernetes

GPU on Kubernetes

Backend/infrastructure

Cross-functional partners

Job description

Mistral is seeking a senior Kubernetes leader to guide the Cloud Platform team from day one. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and own the control plane end-to-end in our in-house infra—half architecture, half people leadership.

You will define scaling strategies for GPU-enabled workloads, ensure reliable production systems, and collaborate with product, design, and business partners to turn frontier AI research into scalable customer solutions. This is a hands-on leadership role.