Principal SRE – Cloud Infrastructure

The role

You will provide technical leadership across Scaleway's SRE community. You will define standards, architecture and engineering practices that keep the sovereign cloud platform reliable, performant and scalable.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction across the SRE organization.
• Partner with Lead SREs to solve complex technical challenges and drive engineering excellence.
• Define and promote SRE standards, best practices and technical principles across the organization.
• Tackle complex architectural challenges across large-scale, distributed cloud infrastructure.
• Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, performance, observability and resilience.
• Help shape monitoring, incident management and production readiness.
• Identify systemic reliability risks and technical debt, and drive initiatives to address them.
• Act as a technical bridge between SRE, Infrastructure and Engineering teams.
• Provide expert guidance on high-load and distributed systems.
• Contribute to large-scale technical initiatives impacting multiple teams and products.

Required qualifications

• Extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering or DevOps in large-scale environments.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, high-load infrastructure and cloud architectures.
• Strong expertise across a broad infrastructure stack and the ability to quickly navigate unfamiliar technologies.
• Proven experience solving complex reliability, scalability and performance challenges.
• Strong understanding of observability, incident management, automation and production operations.
• A strong track record of technical leadership and influence across multiple engineering teams.
• Ability to define technical standards and drive their adoption across a large engineering organization.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, including aligning multiple technical stakeholders.
• High level of empathy and collaboration.
• Strong curiosity and a continuous learning mindset.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and switch quickly between technical contexts.
• Ability to operate autonomously on complex, organization-wide technical topics.

Benefits

• Hybrid work with up to 3 days of remote work per week.
• Spacious offices near public transport, most with outdoor terraces and bike parking.
• Healthy meal service at headquarters and breakfast available 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 with dozens of nationalities, where English is as widely spoken as French.
• Internal mobility, including transitions to other Iliad Group entities.

Before you apply

• The hiring process has four steps: an HR interview (30 min), a manager interview (45 min), a technical interview with two SRE team members (1h), and a final interview with the CTO (45 min).

About the company

Scaleway has been designing secure, sustainable cloud and AI infrastructure since 1999. It is backed by the Iliad Group, which is investing €3 billion in a sovereign AI alternative.