Site Reliability Engineer

New York, NY

About the role

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 As a Site Reliability Engineer, you 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. Operations • Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available and fault-tolerant infrastructures to support our web services and ML workloads • Make sure our platform, inference and model training environments are always highly available and enable seamless replication of work environments across several HPC clusters • 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 • Implement and maintain workflows and tools (CI/CD, containerization, orchestration, monitoring, logging and alerting systems) for both our client-facing APIs and large training runs • Participate occasionally in on-call rotations to respond to incidents and perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrences Development • 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 • Build a cloud-agnostic platform offering an abstraction layer between science and infrastructure • Design and develop new workflows and tooling to improve to the reliability, availability and performance of our systems (automation scripts, refactoring, new API-based features, web apps, dashboards, etc.) • Collaborate with the security team to ensure infrastructure adheres to best security practices and compliance

requirements • Document processes and procedures to ensure consistency and knowledge sharing across

the team • 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 • Exposure to site reliability issues in critical environments (issue root cause analysis, in-production troubleshooting, on-call rotations...) • 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...) and knowledge of software development best practices • 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 Your application will be all the more interesting if you also have: • 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

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About Mistral AI

Mistral AI presents a suite of configurable large language models and AI services tailored for diverse enterprise applications. It offers both open-weight and commercially licensed models that support tasks such as advanced reasoning, code generation, multitasking across modalities, and chatbot interactions. The company delivers full-stack AI capabilities, spanning model customization, deployment via APIs, agent-based automation, and scalable infrastructure, enabling integration into existing enterprise systems. Responses draw on publicly available technical information and aim for clarity and neutrality.

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Job details

Location

New York, NY

Company

NameMistral AI
IndustryAgentic AI
Team Size4

Funding

Total raised

$1.9B

Last stage

Series A

Investors

Andreessen Horowitz
Lightspeed Venture Partners
General Catalyst
AASML
DST Global

Founders

Timothée Lacroix

Timothée Lacroix

Co-founder

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Arthur Mensch

Arthur Mensch

CEO

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Guillaume Lample

Co-founder

What happens next.

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01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.