Engineering Manager, Serverless Containers (AI)

Location: Remote, with locations in Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, London, and Berlin.

Company

Mistral AI provides full-stack AI solutions, including frontier models, developer tools, applications, and compute for enterprises in high-stakes industries.

What you will do

• Own the serverless container platform end to end, including image delivery, placement, request routing, scaling, and scale-to-zero across CPU and GPU.
• Improve cold starts through snapshotting, prewarming, image-layer caching, and related platform techniques.
• Build support for GPU-backed containers, streaming responses, long-lived connections, and MCP servers.
• Write Go with the team and make architecture and complex implementation decisions.
• Hire, coach, provide feedback, and develop engineers while setting a high standard for ownership.
• Partner with Product Managers to turn platform capabilities into a developer-focused product.

Requirements

• 3+ years of people leadership, including hiring, coaching, providing honest feedback, and growing engineers.
• Production experience shipping systems in Go.
• Experience building container or workload platforms, including orchestration, scheduling, isolation, or request routing.
• Deep Linux knowledge, including namespaces, cgroups, image layers, and page cache.
• Experience with multi-tenancy, density, isolation, and fairness across shared infrastructure.
• Significant experience building complex backend or infrastructure systems.
• Experience partnering with product, design, and business teams to ship software used by real customers.
• Low-ego, team-first approach and the ability to work effectively with other engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Distributed teams across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East.
• Collaborative, low-ego, team-oriented working environment focused on AI innovation.
• Benefits may include healthcare, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, and meal and transportation allowances, depending on location.
• Full-time employment with location-specific benefits.