Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Cloud Infrastructure

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.

• 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.

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)