Founding Infra Lead: Go & Hardware at Scale

Mistral; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Parental leave

Relocation support

Wellness programs

Meal allowances

Transportation allowances

Job summary

Mistral is seeking a technology leader to head the datacenter software team as we turn arriving hardware into scalable clusters across Europe. You will own the delivery automation, from firmware validation to software stack installs, while also hiring and mentoring engineers from day one.

Initially hands-on, you will code in Go and shape architectures, then shift toward people leadership as the site grows, defining standards for future datacenters and ensuring rapid time-to-acceptance for

Qualifications

• 8+ years building backend or infrastructure systems.
• At least 2 years of engineers leadership experience.
• Deep Linux knowledge and Go production experience.

Responsibilities

• Build the delivery pipeline in Go: provisioning, configuration, validation, burn-in, network bring-up, software stack install.
• Build the team from scratch: make the first hires, onboard and coach them, own their performance and growth paths.
• Own time-to-acceptance and drive it down relentlessly - measure it, break it down, kill the slowest step first.
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with Hardware Design and Fleet Health - reliability starts at delivery.
• Handle GPU fleets at scale: H100 and GB200-class nodes, InfiniBand and RoCE fabrics, and the failure modes they bring.
• Partner with Product Managers and the datacenter org to plan delivery waves against capacity commitments.

Skills

Go

Linux

Leadership

Infrastructure

Hardware integration

Job description

Mistral is seeking a technology leader to head the datacenter software team as we turn arriving hardware into scalable clusters across Europe. You will own the delivery automation, from firmware validation to software stack installs, while also hiring and mentoring engineers from day one.

Initially hands-on, you will code in Go and shape architectures, then shift toward people leadership as the site grows, defining standards for future datacenters and ensuring rapid time-to-acceptance for