Principal SRE

Why We Need You

Our growth is driving us to strengthen our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team 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 diversity and a spirit of sharing helps bring new projects to life every day. You will work closely with 8 Lead SREs and provide guidance to a community of 40 to 60 SREs. This role covers our Public Cloud platform (Elements).

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 Public Cloud platform.
• Navigate complex architectural challenges with 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

Hard skills

• 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.
• Strong track record of technical leadership in large‑scale engineering organizations.

Soft skills

• High empathy and benevolence.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong curiosity and a continuous learning mindset.
• Ability to handle rapid context switching in a fast‑paced environment.

Benefits

• Hybrid work: up to 3 days of remote work per week.
• Spacious, dynamic offices with outdoor spaces and bike parking.
• Healthy meal service at the headquarters, breakfast available across all sites year‑round.
• Well‑being commitments: access to gym, daycare places, discounts for caring services.
• International environment with English widely spoken.
• Internal mobility and opportunities within the Iliad Group.

All applications are considered with care, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic or social background, religion, disability, or any other characteristic.

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