IaaS Platform Engineering Lead — Kubernetes, Network & Storage

Mistral.ai; Paris (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Relocation support

Job summary

Mistral.ai is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide three core teams: Managed Kubernetes, Network, and Storage. You will define charter, hire first engineers, and align architecture across Kubernetes, network, storage, and hardware with the fleet.

You will mentor team leads, own delivery roadmaps, and partner with Product to balance customer needs with platform evolution. This is a second-line management role for someone moving from engineering to scalable organizational leadership.

Qualifications

• Led multiple engineering teams in production infrastructure as a second-line manager.
• Experience with Kubernetes or compute orchestration at real scale, shipped systems in Go, and worked on Linux beneath the managed-service layer.
• Ability to challenge architecture calls and know when to trust the people making them.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery and health across three teams' roadmaps. Projects ship with the reliability that finance, healthcare, and public-sector workloads demand.
• Manage and grow team leads. Set the standard, hold it, and grow the ones who want your seat one day.
• Build the Storage team from zero: define its charter, hire its lead and engineers, and put the first systems into production.
• Own the seams: architecture that crosses Kubernetes, network, and storage, and the boundary with the fleet and hardware-design groups below you.
• Partner with Product Managers to set priorities and make tradeoffs between what customers need now and what the platform has to become.
• Hire. Your group carries a big block of the org's openings; you build the machine that fills it and onboards people fast.
• Raise the engineering bar through mentoring, feedback, and the standard your leads copy.

Skills

Team leadership

Infrastructure at scale

Orchestration

Tools

Kubernetes

Go

Linux

Job description

Mistral.ai is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide three core teams: Managed Kubernetes, Network, and Storage. You will define charter, hire first engineers, and align architecture across Kubernetes, network, storage, and hardware with the fleet.

You will mentor team leads, own delivery roadmaps, and partner with Product to balance customer needs with platform evolution. This is a second-line management role for someone moving from engineering to scalable organizational leadership.