WHY WE NEED YOU?
As Scaleway continues to grow, we are strengthening our Site Reliability Engineering organization to reinforce technical leadership across our infrastructure.
As a Principal SRE, your mission will be to provide technical leadership across Scaleway’s SRE community, helping define and drive the standards, architecture and engineering practices that ensure the reliability, performance and scalability of our sovereign cloud platform.
You will operate at a highly transversal level, tackling some of our most complex infrastructure challenges and influencing technical decisions across multiple teams.
YOUR FUTURE TEAM
We work in a collaborative and international environment where knowledge sharing, technical excellence and diverse perspectives help us build ambitious products at scale.
You will work closely with 8 Lead SREs and provide technical guidance across a broader community of approximately 40 to 60 SREs.
Your scope will span our Elements / Public Cloud platform, giving you the opportunity to influence reliability and infrastructure practices across a large part of Scaleway’s technical ecosystem.
YOUR DAILY ROUTINE
- Provide technical leadership and strategic direction across the SRE organization.
- Partner closely with our Lead SREs, helping them solve complex technical challenges and drive engineering excellence within their teams.
- 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 our approach to monitoring, incident management and production readiness.
- Identify systemic reliability risks and technical debt across the platform and drive initiatives to address them.
- Act as a technical bridge between SRE, Infrastructure and Engineering teams on cross-functional challenges.
- Provide expert guidance on high-load and distributed systems.
- Contribute to large-scale technical initiatives impacting multiple teams and products.
- Continuously evolve our SRE practices as our infrastructure and cloud platform scale.
ABOUT YOU
HARD SKILLS:
- Extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering or DevOps within 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.
SOFT SKILLS:
- Strong communication and influencing skills, including the ability to align multiple technical stakeholders.
- High level of empathy and collaboration.
- Strong curiosity and a continuous learning mindset.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and switch quickly between different technical contexts.
- Comfortable challenging existing approaches while remaining pragmatic and solution-oriented.
- Ability to operate autonomously on complex, organization-wide technical topics.
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 HR Interview with the Recruitment team (30 min)
- Manager Interview with Antoine Millet (45 min)
- Technical Interview with two members of the SRE team (1h)
- Final Interview with our CTO (45 min)
Skills Required
- 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
- Broad expertise across infrastructure technologies and ability to navigate unfamiliar technologies
- Proven experience solving complex reliability, scalability, and performance challenges
- Strong understanding of observability, incident management, automation, and production operations
- Track record of technical leadership and influence across multiple engineering teams
- Ability to define technical standards and drive adoption across a large engineering organization
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Empathy, collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning mindset
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and switch between technical contexts
- Ability to challenge existing approaches pragmatically and autonomously manage complex organization-wide topics
What We Do
Welcome to Scaleway: Europe's empowering cloud provider We are the preferred cloud solution, empowering developers and businesses to seamlessly build, deploy, and scale applications across diverse infrastructures. Our global presence spans Paris, Amsterdam, and Warsaw, serving a thriving community of over 25,000 businesses, including pioneering European startups. Why Choose Us? Our comprehensive cloud ecosystem is distinguished by multi-AZ redundancy, delivering a robust foundation for uninterrupted operations. What sets us apart is not just our state-of-the-art data centers, powered entirely by renewable energy, but also our commitment to providing a smooth developer experience. Scaleway is the choice for those seeking native tools to navigate and manage multi-cloud architectures effortlessly. What We Offer: We offer fully managed solutions for bare metal, containerization, and serverless architectures. We believe in empowering our customers with choices: the choice to determine the location of their data, the choice to select the architecture that best suits their business needs, and the choice to scale responsibly. Our Advantages: Multi-AZ Redundancy: Ensure business continuity with our robust multi-AZ redundancy. Smooth Developer Experience: Streamline your development process with a user-friendly environment. Renewable Energy Data Centers: Contribute to a sustainable future by hosting your applications in data centers powered solely by renewable energy. Native Tools for Multi-Cloud: Seamlessly manage and optimize your multi-cloud architectures with our native tools. Choose us, Choose Innovation: We're not just a cloud provider; we are your partner in innovation. Choose us for the freedom to decide where your data resides, the flexibility to tailor your architecture to your business, and the responsibility to scale in an environmentally conscious manner.
