Site Reliability Engineer

About Mistral

Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems—across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector—co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms. We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.

The Role

We are seeking highly experienced Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) to shape the reliability, scalability and performance of our platform and customer facing applications. You will work closely with our software engineers and research teams to ensure our systems meet and exceed our internal and external customers' expectations.

What You Will Do

• Balance the day-to-day operations on production systems with long-term software engineering improvements to reduce operational toil and foster the reliability, availability, and performance of these systems.
• Operate systems and troubleshoot issues in production environments (interrupts, on-call responses, users admin, data extraction, infrastructure scaling, etc.).
• Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems to ensure optimal system performance and minimize downtime.
• Drive continuous improvement in infrastructure automation, deployment, and orchestration using tools like Kubernetes, Flux, Terraform.
• Collaborate with AI/ML researchers to develop and implement solutions that enable safe and reproducible model-training experiments.
• Design and develop new workflows and tooling to improve the reliability, availability and performance of our systems (automation scripts, refactoring, new API-based features, web apps, dashboards, etc.).
• Contribute to open-source projects, research publications, blog articles and conferences.

What We're Looking For

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• 7+ years of experience in a DevOps/SRE role
• Strong experience with cloud computing and highly available distributed systems
• Experience working against reliability KPIs (observability, alerting, SLAs)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes...)
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, alerting and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog...)
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash...)
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and system administration concepts
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Self-motivated and able to work well in a fast-paced startup environment

Additional Desirable Qualifications

• Experience in an AI/ML environment
• Experience of high-performance computing (HPC) systems and workload managers (Slurm)
• Worked with modern AI-oriented solutions (Fluidstack, Coreweave, Vast...)

What We Offer

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. Benefits vary by country and may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, meal and transportation allowances, and other location-specific perks. For the most up-to-date details on benefits available in your location, please refer to our Benefits page.