Engineering Manager, Storage (AI)

Location: Paris, France; other locations include Zurich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Linz, Munich, London, and Berlin.

Company

Mistral AI provides full-stack AI solutions, including frontier models, developer tools, applications, and compute, while building a sovereign AI cloud for Europe.

What you will do

• Stand up block, filesystem, and object-storage systems for training, sandboxed, and general compute workloads.
• Make build-versus-buy decisions, deploying and hardening vendor platforms or writing critical services in Go.
• Own the data plane, including allocation, duplication, tiering, backup and recovery, and S3-compatible APIs.
• Plan petabyte-scale capacity across datacenters and failure domains, designing for durability when disks, networks, and sites fail.
• Build the storage team from zero through hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and growth planning.
• Partner with Product Managers, design, and business teams on the storage roadmap and technical tradeoffs.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of people leadership, including hiring, coaching, feedback, and developing engineers.
• Experience building object, block, or distributed-filesystem storage systems, rather than only operating them.
• Deep distributed-systems fundamentals, including durability, consistency, replication, erasure coding, and failure domains.
• Production experience with Go; systems engineers from C++ or Rust backgrounds must be ready to write Go daily.
• Experience with HDD, SSD, and NVMe storage tiers and their economics.
• 8+ years building backend or infrastructure systems.
• Experience partnering with product, design, and business teams to ship software used by real customers.
• A low-ego, team-first approach and the ability to set a strong standard for ownership.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, low-ego, team-oriented environment with teams distributed across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East.
• Benefits vary by country and may include healthcare, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, and meal and transportation allowances.
• Location-specific benefits are provided according to the candidate's work location.