Mistral Cloud - Software Engineer, Managed Kubernetes

We’re looking for passionate and talented Software Engineers to join our Compute team. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to shape and deliver on-demand Kubernetes clusters with GPU support for Training, Inference, and general-purpose CPU workloads.

Responsibilities

Software Development: Design, build, and maintain scalable control plane services, operators, and custom controllers for Kubernetes; Cluster lifecycle management: Develop automation including provisioning, upgrades, patching, and decommissioning; Monitoring and Observability: Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems to ensure optimal system performance and minimize downtime; Internal tooling: Create workflows, tools, APIs, and command-line interfaces (CLIs) to empower customers and ML/AI teams to deploy and monitor inference services efficiently; Reliability: Design resilient systems capable of gracefully handling failures in large-scale distributed environments; Investigation: identify and resolve unique cluster issues at a low level, documenting findings for future reference; Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotations to respond to incidents and perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrences

Requirements

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field; 5+ years of experience in a similar role (Software Engineer, DevOps, SRE ...); Strong coding proficiency (ideally Golang) and knowledge of software development best practices; Mastery of containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes...); Exposure to site reliability issues in critical environments (issue root cause analysis, in-production troubleshooting, on-call rotations...); Experience working against reliability KPIs (observability, alerting, SLAs); Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail; Ability to own and deliver end-to-end features with minimal oversight; Excellent communication skills and collaborative attitude; Team-oriented, humble and eager to learn; Strong understanding of networking, security, and system administration concepts

Nice to have

high-performance computing (HPC) systems and workload managers (Slurm); monitoring, logging, alerting and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack...); networking, storage, security, and system administration concepts

Benefits

Healthcare coverage; Parental leave; Retirement plans; Relocation support; Wellness programs; Meal and transportation allowances; Accommodation and travelling covered for Paris HQ visits; Other location-specific perks