AI Infra Team Lead - Go, Linux & Secure Sandboxed Runtime

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Mistral seeks a people-led senior leader to guide a backend engineering team building sovereign AI cloud primitives and efficient isolation environments.

You will own architecture decisions, recruit and coach engineers, and collaborate with Product Managers to translate frontier research into production-ready systems. This role emphasizes leadership, technical depth, and scalable delivery.

Qualifications

• Lead engineers with 2+ years of people management.
• Deep Linux internals and microVMs knowledge.
• Shipped production Go backend systems.
• Experience delivering isolated, scalable environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the backend team and recruit engineers.
• Own architecture decisions and roadmap alignment with PMs.
• Guide security and isolation features for thousands of environments.
• Balance delivery speed with reliability and performance.
• Mentor engineers and foster ownership culture.
• Collaborate with Product to translate research into primitives.

Skills

People leadership

Linux internals

Go development

Network isolation

Performance profiling

Backend systems

Firecracker microVMs

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Firecracker

Job description

Mistral seeks a people-led senior leader to guide a backend engineering team building sovereign AI cloud primitives and efficient isolation environments.

You will own architecture decisions, recruit and coach engineers, and collaborate with Product Managers to translate frontier research into production-ready systems. This role emphasizes leadership, technical depth, and scalable delivery.