Software Engineer - Hardware Orchestration

The role

You will design and build the automation and orchestration tools behind Scaleway's Bare Metal infrastructure, from server provisioning to hardware lifecycle management. You will help deploy new Availability Zones and regions at scale, with a team of 6 engineers.

What you will do

• Design, develop and maintain automation and orchestration tools for Bare Metal server provisioning at scale.
• Automate new Availability Zone and region deployments, minimizing manual intervention.
• Build software to manage the hardware lifecycle, from server qualification and provisioning to ongoing operations.
• Develop reliable, maintainable and scalable applications using Python and/or Go.
• Improve the resilience, performance and observability of infrastructure orchestration systems.
• Collaborate with Network, Datacenter, Supply Chain and SRE teams on infrastructure challenges.
• Drive improvements in CI/CD, infrastructure automation and deployment processes.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and share technical knowledge.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering or similar roles.
• Strong development skills in Python and/or Go.
• Solid experience with Linux systems (Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat).
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure provisioning, deployment automation or server lifecycle management.
• Good understanding of CI/CD, GitLab and infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, K3s, FluxCD and SOPS.
• Understanding of infrastructure protocols such as DNS, DHCP, NTP, TFTP and HTTP(S).
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and the Elastic Stack.
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems and production environments.
• Ownership and autonomy: you drive technical projects from design to production.
• Collaboration: you enjoy working across engineering teams and sharing knowledge.
• Problem-solving with a pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset.

Nice to have

• Experience with NetBox, Vault or similar infrastructure management tools.

Benefits

• Hybrid work with up to 3 days of remote work per week.
• Offices near public transport, with terraces and bike parking at most sites.
• Healthy meal service at headquarters and breakfast at all sites year-round.
• Swile card for lunches for Scalers at regional sites.
• Well-being support such as gym access, daycare places and discounted caring services.
• International environment where English is as widely spoken as French.
• Internal mobility, including transitions to other Iliad Group entities.

Before you apply

• Hiring process: discovery call with a recruiter (30 min), technical interview with future manager and a team member, final interview with N+2 (30 min).

About the company

Scaleway is a European cloud provider founded in 1999, part of the Iliad Group, offering over 100 public cloud products in IaaS, PaaS and AI. Its data centers have run on renewable energy since 2017.