Head of AI Enablement

Scaleway

OUR STORY:   🇪🇺 Join Scaleway and shape the sovereign cloud of tomorrow ! Since 1999, we have been designing secure, sustainable infrastructures aimed at supporting the most ambitious companies.   Historically known for our dedicated servers (Dedibox), we made a strategic shift to cloud computing in 2015. Staying true to our principles of simplicity, flexibility, and technical excellence, we have become one of the leading players in Europe in the sector.   With the rise of artificial intelligence, we have strengthened our commitment, supported by the Iliad Group, which is investing €3 billion to develop a serious, sovereign AI alternative to American and Asian giants.   Every day, thanks to our fast-growing portfolio of cloud and AI products (bare metal, containerization, serverless, AI, etc.), Scaleway proudly serves thousands of customer across the private and public sector, from corporations like France Télévisions or Hachette Livre, to fast-growing startups like Photoroom and Biolevate, to institutions like the City of Copenhagen.   📍 Our offices are located in Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Rennes, Rouen, Bordeaux and Lyon.   WHY WE NEED YOU ?   Our growth is driving us to strengthen our Storage Tribe to lead the engineering department responsible for our foundational storage products. Your mission will be to define the global technological vision and orchestrate the engineering strategy in order to guarantee the performance, SLAs, and scalability of our distributed storage systems while managing a team of engineering managers and technical experts.   YOUR FUTURE TEAM   We work in a collaborative and international environment where the diversity of Scalers, combined with a spirit of sharing, helps bring new projects to life every day, advancing our ambitions together. You will be part of a team of 30 to 50 people. The Storage Tribe builds and operates the critical infrastructure that powers our customers' data needs at a massive scale. Managing hundreds of petabytes of data, the team develops homegrown object and block storage platforms using technologies like Ceph and distributed encoding. The team is organized into squads led by Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, covering low-level development, SRE, and production stability. Manager information: You will report directly to the Director of Engineering.   YOUR DAILY ROUTINE   - Strategic Leadership: Define and carry the global technological vision for the Storage department, challenging the technical direction of the scope. - Team Management: Manage and mentor a hierarchy of Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and Contributors (30-50 Scalers), fostering a culture of benevolence and engineering excellence. - Operational Excellence: Guarantee the performance and reliability of our storage platforms, ensuring strict adherence to SLAs and production standards. - Architecture & Innovation: Drive decisions on low-level architecture and distributed systems, leveraging open-source technologies (Ceph, ZFS, NFS). - Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with Product teams and other technical directions to align engineering output with business strategy and the sovereign cloud mission. - Crisis Management: Act as a high-level escalation point for critical technical incidents, applying pragmatic problem-solving ("rubber ducking") to resolve complex blockers. - Talent Development: Oversee recruitment and career paths, ensuring the growth of high-potential profiles in a specialized technical population.   ABOUT YOU   HARDSKILLS: - Experience: 10+ years of experience in engineering, with a strong background in low-level development, production, and storage systems. - Technical Mastery: Deep knowledge of storage technologies (Object Storage, Block Storage, Ceph, ZFS, NFS) and system programming (C, C++, Rust, or Go). - Systems Expertise: proficiency in Linux/FreeBSD internals and system profiling. - Open Source: A strong track record of contribution to or usage of open-source technologies. - Leadership: Proven experience managing managers and leading technical teams in a production environment.   SOFT SKILLS: - Benevolent Leader: You prioritize the well-being and growth of your team. - Pragmatic Problem Solver: You are an expert at "rubber ducking" and can simplify complex technical situations. - Abstract Thinking: You are capable of high-level abstraction while retaining a love for computers and deep-tech details. Open-Minded: You remain curious and adaptable in a fast-evolving cloud environment.   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 … - Discovery call with a recruiter (30 min) - Interview with the Director of Engineering to understand your technical skills and approach to the role (45 min) - Technical/Managerial interview to validate your expertise and leadership style - HR Interview to tour our offices and meet your future colleagues  

Scaleway

OUR STORY:   🇪🇺 Join Scaleway and shape the sovereign cloud of tomorrow ! Since 1999, we have been designing secure, sustainable infrastructures aimed at supporting the most ambitious companies.   Historically known for our dedicated servers (Dedibox), we made a strategic shift to cloud computing in 2015. Staying true to our principles of simplicity, flexibility, and technical excellence, we have become one of the leading players in Europe in the sector.   With the rise of artificial intelligence, we have strengthened our commitment, supported by the Iliad Group, which is investing €3 billion to develop a serious, sovereign AI alternative to American and Asian giants.   Every day, thanks to our fast-growing portfolio of cloud and AI products (bare metal, containerization, serverless, AI, etc.), Scaleway proudly serves thousands of customer across the private and public sector, from corporations like France Télévisions or Hachette Livre, to fast-growing startups like Photoroom and Biolevate, to institutions like the City of Copenhagen.   📍 Our offices are located in Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Rennes, Rouen, Bordeaux and Lyon.   WHY WE NEED YOU? Our growth is driving us to strengthen our Marketplace team to build a brand-new product from the ground up, managing the creation and distribution of core artifacts like OS images and container images. Your mission will be to lead and develop the software components and architecture for our Marketplace platform in order to deliver a scalable, diverse, and high-performance product offering to all Scaleway users. YOUR FUTURE TEAM We work in a collaborative and international environment where the diversity of Scalers, combined with a spirit of sharing, helps bring new projects to life every day, advancing our ambitions together. You will be part of a team of initially 1 person (yourself), with the objective to recruit and grow the team to approximately 5 to 10 engineers. As this is a new initiative, you will work closely with Product Management (Marie Debard) and Engineering leadership to define the technical vision. YOUR DAILY ROUTINE Tasks Design and develop the Marketplace platform architecture from scratch Implement backend services primarily using Go and SQL Create and manage the lifecycle of artifacts, including OS and container images Develop and maintain robust APIs to power Marketplace features Architect distributed systems focused on high scalability and microservices Collaborate cross-functionally with Core Engineering and Product teams Participate in the definition of technical specifications and product roadmaps Ensure code quality through rigorous testing and documentation Recruit, mentor, and lead the future members of the Marketplace engineering team Balance hands-on development with strategic engineering management     ABOUT YOU HARDSKILLS: Strong proficiency in Go and experience with Python Solid experience in SQL and database management Expertise in Linux system administration and internals Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes Proven track record in building APIs and Distributed Architectures Deep understanding of Microservices and Scalability Proficiency with Git and CI/CD workflows Experience in creating and managing artifacts (OS images, containers) SOFT SKILLS: High level of autonomy and ownership Strong problem-solving and analytical mindset Adaptability to a fast-evolving, "start-up" style project environment Excellent leadership and communication skills Pragmatic and results-oriented approach   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 … Discovery call with a recruiter (30 min) Interview with the manager, to understand your technical skills and approach to the role (45 min) Technical deep dive (Use Case) to validate your expertise with team experts Interview with the Head of Tribe/Product to deepen discussions and assess your fit with the team (45 min) HR interview to tour our offices and meet your future colleagues

Scaleway

OUR STORY:   🇪🇺 Join Scaleway and shape the sovereign cloud of tomorrow ! Since 1999, we have been designing secure, sustainable infrastructures aimed at supporting the most ambitious companies.   Historically known for our dedicated servers (Dedibox), we made a strategic shift to cloud computing in 2015. Staying true to our principles of simplicity, flexibility, and technical excellence, we have become one of the leading players in Europe in the sector.   With the rise of artificial intelligence, we have strengthened our commitment, supported by the Iliad Group, which is investing €3 billion to develop a serious, sovereign AI alternative to American and Asian giants.   Every day, thanks to our fast-growing portfolio of cloud and AI products (bare metal, containerization, serverless, AI, etc.), Scaleway proudly serves thousands of customer across the private and public sector, from corporations like France Télévisions or Hachette Livre, to fast-growing startups like Photoroom and Biolevate, to institutions like the City of Copenhagen.   📍 Our offices are located in Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Rennes, Rouen, Bordeaux and Lyon.   WHY WE NEED YOU? Our growth is driving us to strengthen our Database & Data Platform team to increase our capacity to deliver new features and improve the reliability and robustness of our managed databases service.   Your mission: Own and evolve both the internal and public‑facing managed‑database platform, driving scalability, security and long‑term performance while shaping the next generation of our cloud database offer.     YOUR FUTURE TEAM We work in a collaborative environment where knowledge sharing and mutual support are key to driving our ambitions forward.   You’ll join a tight‑knit team of six, distributed across our French sites: three developers, one DBA, one product manager, and one engineering manager. In this role you’ll write production‑grade code and build and maintain the infrastructure that runs it—from Python & Go‑based APIs to Ansible playbooks, CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks.    The team owns both an internal database platform that powers other Scaleway products and the public‑facing managed‑database service.   YOUR DAILY ROUTINE • Design, implement, and ship new features for the managed‑database service while continuously improving the existing codebase. • Maintain and evolve internal database platforms (new deployments, automated upgrades, performance optimizations, …). • Contribute to design reviews and propose improvements to internal architecture and tooling. • Improve the technical stack used for database management and automation. • Work with tools like Terraform, Ansible and Docker to support infrastructure and automation. • Collaborate with other developers and DBAs to guide database usage and best practices. • Diagnose and resolve incidents and bugs affecting databases • Participate in a second‑level on‑call rotation (approximately 1 week / month), stepping in when first‑level alerts need deeper investigation and ensuring rapid restoration of our managed‑database services • Resolve critical production issues, working closely with our SRE team to restore service and implement long‑term fixes.     ABOUT YOU HARD SKILLS: • Strong Development experience in Python or Go • Strong Linux system administration skills and experience with Bash scripting • Solid experience in administering at least one major RDBMS in production environments (ideally PostgreSQL or MySQL)   • Deep understanding of database administration mechanisms: high availability, security, access control, disaster recovery, and service continuity strategies. • Comfortable working with automation and infrastructure tools: Ansible, Docker, Git & CI/CD pipelines • Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Prometheus   SOFT SKILLS: • Excellent communication and synthesis skills: ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders • Strong sense of rigor and high standards, especially when working on critical infrastructure • Proactive and autonomous, with the ability to work effectively in a distributed team • Ability to collaborate with empathy and contribute to a caring, respectful work environment • Professional written communication in English; comfort in French-speaking teams   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 … • Discovery call with a recruiter (30 min) • Interview with Manager (30 min) • Technical interview (1h min) • Interview with Head of Tribe (30 min)