About the Role
As a founding engineer on the Applied AI SRE sub-team, you will build and operate a framework to ensure Mistral's solution delivery is reliable and sustainable across all accounts. This role focuses on framework-first, fleet management, and structurally solving problems for every customer.
Responsibilities
- Design and build proactive systems to reduce reactivity for Mistral platforms and apps.
- Productize reliability, author runbooks, create SLO templates, and implement observability.
- Operate Tier-1 customer environments, ensuring SLO compliance.
- Own on-call and incident response, manage drift, and partner with Technical Support.
- Champion high signal post-mortems.
- Productize Mistral's deployment, security, and scaling of Applied AI solutions.
- Engineer on-demand provisioning, author security baseline packages, embed security guardrails, and automate processes.
- Own the security operations layer for customer-side deployments.
- Lead CVE response across the fleet and ship supply-chain integrity controls.
- Co-page with InfoSec on security incidents and enforce secure-config baselines.
Requirements
- Fluent in English.
- 5+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, or DevOps, with a record of shipping tooling.
- Strong multi-tenant Kubernetes fluency, including namespace segmentation, network policy, RBAC, admission control, and operations at scale.
- On-call discipline: incident response, blameless post-mortem culture, runbook-first mindset.
- Experience with observability stacks in production (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Tempo, Signoz).
- Experience with Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalents).
- Proficient in Python and/or Golang for tooling and automation.
- Security mindset: treat secure-SDLC, CVE response, and supply-chain integrity as reliability properties.
- Strong written communication skills for runbooks, post-mortems, and customer-facing incident communications.
- Comfortable operating with high autonomy in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment.
- Disciplined enough to defend the team's scope.
- Solid Linux internals, networking debug, and distributed-systems fundamentals.
Skills
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- Loki
- Tempo
- Signoz
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Python
- Golang
- Linux internals
- Networking debug
- Distributed-systems fundamentals
- Cloud security
- Application security
- K8s security
- Supply chain security (SBOM, cosign, SLSA)
- LLM serving stacks
- Multi-cloud environments
- On-prem hybrid environments
- Open-source contributions
Location
- Europe
- North America
- Asia
- Middle East
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, or DevOps
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Parental leave
- Retirement plans
- Relocation support
- Wellness programs
- Meal allowances
- Transportation allowances
About the Company
- Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions, from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute.
- We partner with enterprises in finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector to co-create customized AI systems.
- 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.
