Software Engineer (Golang), Serverless Containers

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Parental leave

Retirement plans

Relocation support

Wellness programs

Meal and transportation allowances

Other location-specific perks

Job summary

Mistral.ai is building a sovereign AI cloud for Europe, and this role focuses on end-to-end container platform development. You will design the scheduler, routing, and scale-to-zero mechanics for CPU and GPU workloads on metal.

You’ll own core architecture decisions and collaborate with product teams to deliver developer-friendly tooling. The role emphasizes Go proficiency, large-scale backend engineering, and deep Linux knowledge, with a focus on multi-tenant, secure, efficient execution across

Qualifications

• Shipped production systems in Go.
• Built container/workload platforms (orchestration, scheduling, isolation, request routing).
• Deep Linux: namespaces, cgroups, image layers, page cache.

Responsibilities

• Build the container platform end to end: image delivery, placement, request routing, scale-up, scale-to-zero across CPU and GPU.
• Make cold starts instant: snapshotting, prewarming, image-layer caching.
• Treat AI workloads as the normal case: GPU-backed containers, long-lived connections.
• Write Go and own architecture and critical implementation decisions.
• Partner with Product Managers to translate platform decisions into a developer-friendly product.

Skills

Go

Backend systems

Container platforms

Linux internals

Multi-tenancy

Architecture decisions

Dev collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

About Mistral

About Mistral Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector, co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms. We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.

THE TEAM

Mistral is building a sovereign AI cloud for Europe. Our customers in finance, healthcare, and the public sector run frontier models on European-jurisdiction infrastructure, and the Cloud Platform team builds the systems that make that possible - compute orchestration, Kubernetes, bare metal, storage, networking, and the datacenter fleet that runs it all. We run it all on our own metal, our own network, our own datacenters - which means when something breaks, the fix is ours to write. European Compute Units let enterprises commit to multi-year capacity on that infrastructure, and we are scaling toward a gigawatt of compute across Europe by 2030. You will design and ship the layer every sovereign AI deployment depends on.

THE ROLE

You will build our serverless containers product: the way developers run AI apps, MCP servers, APIs, and managed workers on our cloud without thinking about servers. Push a container, get an endpoint, scale from zero to thousands of instances and back down - across CPU and GPU. On a hyperscaler, the serverless layer is a product someone else built. Here you build it end to end: the scheduler that decides where a container lands, the routing path a request takes, the machinery that turns a scaled-to-zero service into a warm instance before a customer notices. All of it runs on metal, network, and datacenters we own. That tension is the product: scale-to-zero economics with cold starts in milliseconds, autoscaling that absorbs a launch spike without a config change, GPUs scheduled onto containers the way other platforms schedule CPU. The customers betting on this layer are the developers building the next generation of AI software on European infrastructure.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Build the container platform end to end: image delivery, placement, request routing, scale-up, scale-to-zero - across CPU and GPU.
• Make cold starts a solved problem: snapshotting, prewarming, image-layer caching, whatever it takes for scale-from-zero to feel instant.
• Treat AI workloads as the normal case: GPU-backed containers, streaming responses, long-lived connections, MCP servers that cost almost nothing while idle.
• Write Go and own the architecture and the hardest implementation decisions.
• Partner with Product Managers to turn platform decisions into a product developers want to deploy on.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• You have shipped production systems in Go. Not dabbled. Shipped.
• You have built container or workload platforms - orchestration, scheduling, isolation, request routing - not just deployed onto someone else's serverless platform.
• Deep Linux: namespaces, cgroups, image layers, page cache - comfortable well below the application layer.
• Multi-tenancy instincts: density, isolation, and fairness when hundreds of customers share one fleet.
• Significant experience building complex backend or infrastructure systems.
• You have partnered with product, design, and business teams to ship software that reached real users.
• A low-ego, team-first mindset. We care less about your exact domain and more about whether you are the kind of technical force other engineers want to work alongside.

What We Offer

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

• healthcare coverage
• parental leave
• retirement plans
• relocation support
• wellness programs
• meal and transportation allowances
• other location-specific perks

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