AI Infra Team Lead — Go, Linux & Security

Mistral AI; Greater London; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mistral AI is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a team building secure, isolated environments for AI agents. You will split time between architecture and hands-on delivery, shaping the runtime primitives for sovereign AI workloads.

Join a distributed European tech team focused on frontier models, Kubernetes, and secure compute, with opportunities to mentor engineers and drive impactful infrastructure decisions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and mentoring engineers.
• Deep knowledge of Linux internals, containers, and isolation techniques.
• Production-grade Go software development experience.
• Experience designing scalable, secure distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team from day one, including hiring, coaching, and performance reviews.
• Make architecture decisions and tackle the hardest technical challenges.
• Own security boundaries and isolation guarantees for multi-tenant workloads.
• Partner with Product Managers to translate frontier research into primitives.
• Coach engineers to take ownership and grow beyond comfort zones.
• Balance hands-on coding with strategic architectural work.

Skills

People leadership

Go

Linux internals

Security boundary

Go production systems

Network isolation

Performance profiling

Backend/infrastructure

Collaboration with product

Team growth

Tools

Firecracker microVMs

Kubernetes

Linux tooling

Job description

Mistral AI is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a team building secure, isolated environments for AI agents. You will split time between architecture and hands-on delivery, shaping the runtime primitives for sovereign AI workloads.

Join a distributed European tech team focused on frontier models, Kubernetes, and secure compute, with opportunities to mentor engineers and drive impactful infrastructure decisions.