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Engineering Team Lead, Storage

Mistral AIParisEngineering & Infra
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Salary
Not listed
Job type
Full-time
Posted
23 Sept 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

Role Overview

The Engineering Team Lead, Storage position at Mistral AI in Paris is a founding people-leadership opportunity focused on building a sovereign AI cloud storage infrastructure from the ground up. This role suits an experienced infrastructure leader with a background in distributed systems who enjoys hands-on technical challenges alongside team growth and mentorship.

Key Responsibilities

Build and launch the block, file, and object storage stack for training, sandbox, and general compute workloads.
Decide whether to build or buy, designing custom services when necessary and hardening vendor platforms.
Manage the data plane, including allocation, duplication, tiering, backup and recovery, and S3-compatible APIs.
Manage capacity planning across multiple datacenters and failure domains handling petabytes of data.
Recruit the initial team from scratch, manage onboarding, coach engineers, and establish career growth paths.
Collaborate with Product Managers to define the storage roadmap and handle technical and business decisions.

Requirements

Bring at least two years of formal people leadership experience managing, hiring, and coaching engineers.
Demonstrate hands-on experience building object, block, or distributed filesystems rather than just operating them.
Possess deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals such as durability, consistency, replication, erasure coding, and failure domains.
Experience shipping production systems in Go, with openness to consider systems engineers coming from C++ or Rust.
Familiarity with hardware realities including HDD, SSD, and NVMe tiers and their economic implications.
Minimum of eight years of overall experience building backend or infrastructure systems.
Proven track record of partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver software to real users.
Maintain a low-ego, collaborative, and team-first mentality.

Skills and Tools

Kubernetes
Rust
C++
Go
Distributed Systems
Block, File, and Object Storage

About the Company

Mistral AI delivers full-stack artificial intelligence solutions ranging from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute infrastructure. The organization partners with enterprises in high-stakes sectors like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector. The Cloud Platform team is currently constructing a sovereign AI cloud for Europe, running on proprietary hardware, networks, and datacenters located in European jurisdictions.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit their application directly on the official company careers page.

Skills and tech stack

Questions candidates ask

Where is this job located?

This position is based in Paris, France.

Is this a remote position?

No, this role is located on-site in Paris and is not listed as remote.

What programming language will I use daily?

The role involves writing services in Go, though qualified systems engineers with backgrounds in C++ or Rust who are ready to write Go daily are encouraged to apply.

How many years of experience are required?

The position requires at least 2 years of real people leadership experience and a minimum of 8 years building backend or infrastructure systems.

What is the primary focus of the engineering team?

The Cloud Platform team builds the infrastructure for a sovereign AI cloud in Europe, covering compute orchestration, Kubernetes, bare metal, storage, networking, and datacenter fleets.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official Mistral AI careers page.

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