Mistral is building a sovereign AI cloud for Europe. The Cloud Platform team builds the systems that make that possible, including compute orchestration, Kubernetes, bare metal, storage, networking, and the datacenter fleet. This is a people-leadership role from day one: you will manage the team while staying close to the code, spending roughly half your time on architecture decisions and the hardest technical problems and the other half leading your squad. You will lead the team building the serverless containers product, which lets developers run AI apps, MCP servers, APIs, and managed workers on Mistral's cloud, scaling from zero to thousands of instances across CPU and GPU.
Responsibilities
Own the container platform end to end (image delivery, placement, request routing, scale-up, scale-to-zero) across CPU and GPU; Make cold starts a solved problem (snapshotting, prewarming, image-layer caching); Treat AI workloads as the normal case (GPU-backed containers, streaming responses, long-lived connections, MCP servers); Write Go alongside the team and own the architecture and the hardest implementation decisions; Grow the engineers and set the standard for ownership and coaching; Own people management for the team (hiring, performance, growth paths, honest feedback); Partner with Product Managers to turn platform decisions into a product developers want to deploy on
Requirements
3+ years of real people leadership, having managed engineers (hired, coached, given honest feedback, and grown them); Shipped production systems in Go; Built container or workload platforms (orchestration, scheduling, isolation, request routing); Deep Linux knowledge (namespaces, cgroups, image layers, page cache); Multi-tenancy instincts (density, isolation, and fairness across many customers sharing one fleet); Significant experience building complex backend or infrastructure systems; Experience partnering with product, design, and business teams to ship software that reached real users; Low-ego, team-first mindset
Benefits
Healthcare coverage; Parental leave; Retirement plans; Relocation support; Wellness programs; Meal and transportation allowances; Other location-specific perks
Francja · Paris
