Engineering Team Lead, Storage

Mistral
Paris, Zurich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Munich, London, Berlin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["People leadership","Ownership","Team-first mindset","Low-ego collaboration","Partnership"]

Found a new storage engineering team for a sovereign AI cloud, owning the storage stack from block and filesystem to S3-compatible object storage. Make build-vs-buy decisions, write key services in Go, and design data planes for allocation, tiering, and backup/recovery across failure domains. Plan capacity across datacenters and help lead early hires, coaching, and growth paths while partnering with product on the storage roadmap.

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Mistral
Mistral
13 hours ago

Engineering Team Lead, Storage

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Job Summary

Found a new storage engineering team for a sovereign AI cloud, owning the storage stack from block and filesystem to S3-compatible object storage. Make build-vs-buy decisions, write key services in Go, and design data planes for allocation, tiering, and backup/recovery across failure domains. Plan capacity across datacenters and help lead early hires, coaching, and growth paths while partnering with product on the storage roadmap.
Location: Paris, Zurich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Munich, London, Berlin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Stand up the storage stack (block, file, object) for training, sandbox, and general compute workloads.
  • •Make build-vs-buy decisions and deploy/harden vendor platforms where they win; implement key services in Go where they don’t.
  • •Own the data plane: allocation, duplication, tiering, backup and recovery, and S3-compatible APIs.
  • •Plan capacity across datacenters and failure domains, targeting petabyte-scale storage reliability.
  • •Build the team from zero: first hires, onboarding, coaching, performance and growth paths, and ownership standards.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceParental LeaveRetirementRelocationWellness StipendMeal AllowanceCommuter Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •2+ years of real people leadership, including hiring, coaching, and growing engineers, with hands-on contribution early on.
  • •Built storage systems (object, block, or distributed filesystems), understanding failure modes like disk death mid-write and backup/rebalance conflicts.
  • •Deep distributed-systems fundamentals across durability, consistency, replication, erasure coding, and failure domains.
  • •Shipped production systems in Go, with comfort writing Go for core services.
  • •8+ years building backend or infrastructure systems.
Experience:8+ years
Skills:People leadershipOwnershipTeam-first mindsetLow-ego collaborationPartnership
Tech Stack:GoKubernetesS3-compatible object storageBlock storageDistributed filesystems

Company Brief

Mistral
Develops state-of-the-art large language models and AI systems, offering models and developer tools for natural language understanding, generation, and enterprise AI integrations. Focuses on open research and production-ready model deployments.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Funding: Seed
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 2023
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