Principal SRE
Scaleway
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WHY WE NEED YOU?
Our growth is driving us to strengthen our SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team to bolster technical leadership across our infrastructure.
Your mission will be to provide technical leadership for the entire SRE community at Scaleway in order to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our sovereign cloud platform.
YOUR FUTURE TEAM
We work in a collaborative and international environment where the diversity of Scalers, combined with a spirit of sharing, helps bring new projects to life every day, advancing our ambitions together.
You will work closely with 8 Lead SREs and providing guidance to a community of 40 to 60 SREs. This role covers the entirety of our Public Cloud platform (Elements).
Manager information: Antoine Millet
YOUR DAILY ROUTINE
- Drive technical leadership and high-level strategy for the entire SRE organization.
- Oversee and mentor 8 Lead SREs, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
- Manage and optimize large-scale projects across the entire Elements/Public Cloud platform.
- Navigate complex architectural challenges requiring rapid context switching.
- Establish best practices for reliability, monitoring, and incident response at scale.
- Act as a bridge between various engineering teams to ensure global system stability.
- Identify and mitigate technical debt that impacts cross-platform reliability.
- Provide expert guidance on high-load, distributed infrastructure.
- Continuously evolve our SRE practices to stay at the cutting edge of cloud technology.
ABOUT YOU
HARDSKILLS:
- Extensive senior-level experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps.
- Deep mastery of high-load, distributed systems and public cloud architectures.
- Proficiency in a wide array of infrastructure tools and languages (the "Everything" stack).
- Strong track record of technical leadership in large-scale engineering organizations.
SOFT SKILLS:
- Benevolence and a high degree of empathy.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong curiosity and a continuous learning mindset.
- Ability to handle rapid context switching in a fast-paced environment.
WHAT YOU WILL FIND AT SCALEWAY ++++
Hybrid work: We offer up to 3 days of remote work per week.
Offices: Our offices are spacious, dynamic workspaces with bold design, conveniently located near public transport. Most of our offices feature outdoor spaces (terraces) and bike parking facilities.
Dining: Our chef provides a healthy meal service at the headquarters, and breakfast is available across all our sites year-round. Scalers working from regional sites enjoy a Swile card for lunches.
Well-being commitments: Whether it’s access to a gym, daycare places, or discounted services for caring services, Scaleway is committed to supporting Scalers in maintaining a balanced life.
International environment: With dozens of nationalities, Scaleway offers a stimulating environment where English is as widely spoken as French.
Career & Mobility: Our managers value internal mobility, and opportunities to transition to other entities within the Iliad Group are accessible to all Scalers.
🚀 Why join the Scaleway adventure?
✔ A rich and diverse product offering: Scaleway offers over 100 public cloud products in IaaS, PaaS, and AI.
✔ A cutting-edge technical environment: Scaleway provides modern infrastructures, including high-performance bare metal servers, to tackle exciting technical challenges.
✔ Commitment to responsible cloud: Scaleway is dedicated to a more responsible cloud, with data centers powered solely by renewable energy since 2017, minimizing our ecological footprint and holding top-level certification.
🔜 THE NEXT STEPS …
Initial Discovery Call with the recruitment team or Antoine Millet (30 min)
Technical Interview with three Lead SREs to understand your technical approach (45 min)
Technical Deep Dive with three additional Lead SREs to validate your expertise (1h)
Fit Interview with CTO to deepen discussions and assess team alignment (45 min)
Final Visit to tour our offices and meet your future colleagues.
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About Scaleway
Scaleway is a Paris-based European cloud infrastructure and AI platform provider, and a subsidiary of the Iliad Group. Founded in 1999, it offers a comprehensive suite of cloud services including bare metal servers, compute instances, storage, managed databases, Kubernetes, serverless functions, and GPU-powered AI infrastructure. The company positions itself as a sovereign European alternative to US hyperscalers, emphasizing data residency, GDPR compliance, transparency, and sustainability through renewable-energy powered data centers.