Principal SRE & Cloud Reliability Architect

Scaleway; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Well-being programs

Healthy meals

English-friendly environment

Accessible offices

Job summary

Scaleway is seeking a Principal SRE to provide technical leadership across our SRE community and shape standards, architecture, and engineering practices for reliability, performance, and scalability of our sovereign cloud platform.

You will operate at a highly transversal level, guiding 8 Lead SREs and a broader team of 40–60 SREs, influencing decisions across Elements and Public Cloud, and tackling complex distributed systems challenges.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering or DevOps within large-scale environments.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, high-load infrastructure and cloud architectures.
• Strong expertise across a broad infrastructure stack and the ability to quickly navigate unfamiliar technologies.
• Proven experience solving complex reliability, scalability and performance challenges.
• Strong understanding of observability, incident management, automation and production operations.
• A strong track record of technical leadership and influence across multiple engineering teams.
• Ability to define technical standards and drive their adoption across a large engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction across the SRE organization.
• Partner closely with our Lead SREs, helping them solve complex technical challenges and drive engineering excellence within their teams.
• Define and promote SRE standards, best practices and technical principles across the organization.
• Tackle complex architectural challenges across large-scale, distributed cloud infrastructure.
• Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, performance, observability and resilience.
• Help shape our approach to monitoring, incident management and production readiness.
• Identify systemic reliability risks and technical debt across the platform and drive initiatives to address them.
• Act as a technical bridge between SRE, Infrastructure and Engineering teams on cross-functional challenges.
• Provide expert guidance on high-load and distributed systems.
• Contribute to large-scale technical initiatives impacting multiple teams and products.
• Continuously evolve our SRE practices as our infrastructure and cloud platform scale.

Skills

Distributed systems

High-load infrastructure

Cloud architectures

Observability

Automation

Leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Scaleway is seeking a Principal SRE to provide technical leadership across our SRE community and shape standards, architecture, and engineering practices for reliability, performance, and scalability of our sovereign cloud platform.

You will operate at a highly transversal level, guiding 8 Lead SREs and a broader team of 40–60 SREs, influencing decisions across Elements and Public Cloud, and tackling complex distributed systems challenges.