Senior Engineering Manager, IaaS (AI)

Location: Remote in France, the Netherlands, Germany, or the United Kingdom; listed locations include Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, London, and Berlin

Company

Mistral AI provides full-stack AI solutions spanning frontier models, developer tools, applications, and compute for enterprise and public-sector customers.

What you will do

• Own delivery and operational health across Managed Kubernetes, Network, and Storage roadmaps.
• Manage, mentor, and grow team leads while raising the engineering standard.
• Build the Storage team from zero, defining its charter, hiring its lead and engineers, and shipping its first production systems.
• Own architecture across Kubernetes, networking, storage, fleet, and hardware-design boundaries.
• Partner with Product Managers on priorities and platform trade-offs.
• Scale hiring and onboarding for a rapidly growing infrastructure organization.

Requirements

• Experience leading multiple production-infrastructure engineering teams as a second-line manager, including managing managers.
• Experience running Kubernetes or compute orchestration at real scale, shipping systems in Go, and working with Linux below the managed-service layer.
• Strong understanding of networking and storage sufficient to challenge specialists and evaluate designs.
• Comfort working with hardware, fleet operations, and hardware-design teams on bare-metal infrastructure.
• Experience building a team from nothing, including defining its charter, making initial hires, and shipping the first system.
• Experience growing leaders who went on to manage their own teams.
• Low-ego, team-first mindset.

Culture & Benefits

• Work remotely from the listed European locations.
• Benefits may include healthcare, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, and meal and transportation allowances, varying by country.
• Work with distributed teams across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East.
• Build infrastructure for finance, healthcare, and public-sector workloads on European-jurisdiction infrastructure.