Senior Engineering Manager, IaaS

ABOUT MISTRAL Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector, co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms. We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited. The team Mistral is building a sovereign AI cloud for Europe. Customers in finance, healthcare, and the public sector run frontier models on European-jurisdiction infrastructure, and the IaaS group builds the layer they stand on: Kubernetes, networking, and storage, running on our own bare metal. European Compute Units let enterprises commit to multi-year capacity on that infrastructure, and we are scaling toward a gigawatt of compute across Europe by 2030. The org hires about ten engineers a month, and this group carries one of the largest shares. The Role You will lead three teams: Managed Kubernetes, Network, and Storage. Managed K8s and Network run today, each with its own lead. Storage is yours to build: charter, first lead, first hires, first systems in production. The group is about a dozen engineers today and roughly doubles this year. Your reports are team leads. The work is direction, staffing, and the seams between the teams: where Kubernetes meets the network, where both meet storage, and where the group meets the metal underneath. You stay technical enough to challenge architecture calls and to know when to trust the people making them. This is a second-line seat for an engineer who moved into management to build world-class organisations. Opportunities like this don’t come up o