About MistralMistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. The teamMistral 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. You will design and ship the layer every sovereign AI deployment depends on and shape the team building it.

You will manage the team — hiring, coaching, performance, growth paths, honest feedback — while staying close to the code: roughly half your time in architecture decisions and the hardest technical problems the team faces, the other half leading your squad. If you are looking for a senior IC role, this is not it.

You will own our Kubernetes product end to end: a metal-to-on-demand platform built on in-house infrastructure, with GPU support for training, inference, and general-purpose compute. Kubernetes is our product, not just our platform — we run it on infrastructure we own end to end. You will decide how the control plane scales, how GPUs get scheduled, and how quickly a rack of bare metal becomes an on-demand cluster a customer can use.





This is a role for an engineer who leads from the front because that is where the work is, not because management was the next rung on the ladder.

What You Will

DoDesign and ship the control plane. Grow the engineers, not just the software. Own the reliability of the Kubernetes control plane. It is the team's headline KPI. You make the calls when it breaks at 3am, and your engineers learn from how you do it. Shrink the distance from metal to on-demand.

Own people management for the team: hiring, performance, growth paths, and honest feedback — the leadership work that never becomes someone else's job. Define the team's processes and execution rituals as it grows. You have run Kubernetes in anger — and ideally built parts of it: operators, schedulers, controllers.

You understand what happens underneath it, and you have worked on Linux directly, not just on managed services that sit on top of it. You have run GPU workloads on Kubernetes, or you are confident you can own that domain fast. You think like a developer who happens to build infrastructure, not an operator who manages it.

Extensive experience building backend or infrastructure systems. You have partnered with product, design, and business teams to ship software that reached real users.

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