Principal Site Reliability Engineer SRE Cloud Infrastructure
European sovereign cloud and AI provider offering GPU compute, AI model APIs, cloud infrastructure, bare metal, managed data, containers, and quantum services.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
About Scaleway
Scaleway SAS is a Paris-based subsidiary of iliad Group that operates a European cloud and AI platform. Its current offering includes GPU clusters and instances, serverless generative-model APIs, compute, storage, networking, managed databases, Kubernetes, serverless services, and Quantum as a Service.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will provide technical leadership across the SRE organization and work with Lead SREs on complex infrastructure challenges. You will define SRE standards, improve reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and resilience, and shape monitoring, incident management, and production readiness. You will identify systemic risks and technical debt, guide distributed-systems work, and drive large technical initiatives across teams.
Requirements
- 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 infrastructure-stack expertise and ability to navigate unfamiliar technologies
- Experience solving complex reliability, scalability, and performance challenges
- Understanding of observability, incident management, automation, and production operations
- Track record of technical leadership across multiple engineering teams
- Ability to define technical standards and drive adoption across a large engineering organization
- Communication, influence, collaboration, autonomous working, and ambiguity-navigation skills
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and strategic direction across the SRE organization
- Partner with Lead SREs to solve complex technical challenges and improve engineering practices
- Define and promote SRE standards, best practices, and technical principles
- Tackle architectural challenges across distributed cloud infrastructure
- Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and resilience
- Shape monitoring, incident management, and production-readiness practices
- Identify systemic reliability risks and technical debt and drive remediation initiatives
- Act as a technical bridge across SRE, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams
- Provide expert guidance on high-load and distributed systems
- Contribute to large-scale technical initiatives across teams and products
- Evolve SRE practices as the cloud platform scales
Benefits
- Up to 3 days of remote work per week
- Spacious offices near public transport with outdoor spaces and bike parking
- Healthy meal service at headquarters
- Breakfast at all sites
- Swile card for lunches at regional sites
- Access to a gym
- Daycare places
- Discounted caring services
Hiring Process
Initial HR interview with Recruitment (30 min); manager interview (45 min); technical interview with two SRE team members (1h); final interview with the CTO (45 min).
