Remote Site Reliability Engineer

Description:

• Mistral AI is seeking highly experienced Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) to enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of their platform and customer-facing applications.
• The role involves balancing day-to-day operations on production systems with long-term software engineering improvements to reduce operational toil.
• Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining scalable infrastructures, ensuring high availability of platforms, operating systems, troubleshooting production issues, and implementing monitoring and incident response systems.
• The position also requires driving continuous improvement in infrastructure automation, collaborating with AI/ML researchers, and documenting processes for knowledge sharing.
• The role is based in Paris or London and reports to the Head of Engineering.

Requirements:

• A Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.
• Candidates must have 7+ years of experience in a DevOps/SRE role.
• Strong experience with cloud computing and highly available distributed systems is essential.
• Exposure to site reliability issues in critical environments, including issue root cause analysis and on-call rotations, is necessary.
• Experience working against reliability KPIs such as observability, alerting, and SLAs is required.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, containerization, and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes is needed.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana is important.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation is required.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash) and knowledge of software development best practices is necessary.
• A strong understanding of networking, security, and system administration concepts is essential.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills are required, along with the ability to work well in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Additional experience in an AI/ML environment and high-performance computing systems is a plus.

Benefits:

• The position offers a competitive salary and equity.
• Health insurance is provided to all employees.
• A transportation allowance and sport allowance are included.
• Meal vouchers are offered as part of the benefits package.
• Employees have access to a private pension plan.
• A generous parental leave policy is in place for new parents.
• Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.