Product Manager - Storage

Scaleway

WHY WE NEED YOU? Our growth is driving us to strengthen our Storage team to build a robust and scalable IaaS infrastructure that can absorb increasing loads and support technological ambitions like data/AI pipeline industrialization and data security. Your mission will be to act as a senior Product Leader and owner of a strategic portfolio of storage products (Object Storage: Standard, One-zone IA, Glacier, etc.) in order to ensure high-quality delivery, define product vision, drive growth, and champion product management best practices within the organization. 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 3 people within the Storage product group, which is currently organized with 1 Head of Product, 1 Senior PM for Object Storage, and 1 PMs for Block & File. You will collaborate directly and daily with engineering teams, as well as cross-functional teams including marketing, finance, supply, and sales. YOUR DAILY ROUTINE Define and drive the product roadmap for your storage portfolio Act as the "Voice of the Customer" during discovery and design phases Accelerate innovation and orchestrate Proof of Concepts (PoCs) with R&D and engineering Coach junior Product Managers in their discovery, delivery, and metrics practices. Contribute to the Go-to-Market strategy to accelerate growth across new products, features, and regions Balance global strategic vision with hands-on, ground-level operational execution Collaborate with engineering, marketing, finance, supply, and sales teams on product alignment Interface with customers through various channels like community Slack channels, meetings, and RFQ responses ABOUT YOU HARDSKILLS: 10+ years of experience or more, with a solid background in Product Management Proven experience managing complex technical products (Software or Hardware) or large-scale infrastructure projects Experience working within a cloud-centric ecosystem (IaaS, Cloud, Storage, Infrastructure, or HW Lifecycle Management) Proficiency with data-driven decision-making and product metrics Familiarity with collaboration and data tools such as Jira, Confluence, Metabase, n8n, and Slack SOFT SKILLS: Synthesis & Prioritization: Ability to arbitrate and bring clarity to complex or cross-functional environments Tech Culture: Strong curiosity and passion for innovation, infrastructures, or storage technologies Analytical Mindset: Data-driven approach to ensure product growth and clear business impact Mentorship: Natural ability to guide, coach, and level up more junior profiles Influence & Leadership: Ability to evangelize and carry the product vision both internally and externally 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 manager Charlotte Letamendia to understand your technical skills  (20 min) Discovery call with a recruiter  to understand Scaleway's culture and your approach to the role. (20 min) Use Case session with several Product Managers to validate your expertise (1h) Interview with Engineering Manager Iannis to deepen discussions and assess your fit with the team (45 min) Final interview with Loic MARTINEZ VARIZAT  and other members of the team 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 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 Object Storage team to bring core DevOps and infrastructure engineering capabilities to our product squad and ramp up our team's structural autonomy. Your mission will be to drive critical architecture projects, design new service classes, and implement new technical features for our Object Storage product in order to ensure maximum platform reliability, support new regional expansions, and handle massive workloads constraints (100+ Petabytes). 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 3 individual contributors (making you the 4th member of the squad). As part of the specialized Object Storage team, you are the technical owner of Scaleway's S3-compatible platform. You will work closely with the Beekeeper team (developing the underlying SDS backend) and the SRE Storage team (handling live infrastructure operations), managing a massivescale deployment across over 1,000 servers. Manager information: Iannis Formet YOUR DAILY ROUTINE : Tasks : - Lead and execute major high-impact projects, such as opening new regions/Availability Zones and designing new service classes. - Integrate and deploy new functionalities for our homegrown, S3-compatible Object Storage platform. - Actively bridge the gap between low-level system administration and high-quality Devops management. - Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve highly complex, distributed system anomalies and infrastructure incidents. - Collect and prioritize customer feedback alongside requests from internal operations groups (like the SRS/SRE team). - Escalate software bugs and request fundamental product evolutions from the backend SDS core engineering team (Beekeeper). - Participate in level-2 rotating on-call support duties to guarantee product continuity and strict SLA compliance. - Support hardware-related infrastructure mutations and plan field interventions in close collaboration with Data Center squads. - Conduct constructive peer code reviews to enforce strict technical standards and overall software quality. - Maintain technical product documentation and produce clear onboarding guides for incoming teammates. ABOUT YOU: SOFTSKILLS : - Autonomy: You take matters into your own hands when necessary - Analytical Thinking: You visualize  complex systems - Team Spirit: You share ideas openly - Documentation: You ease onboarding for others - Reliability: You place our clients data security above all else HARDSKILLS :   - Solid foundations in Linux systems administration, low-level architecture, and in-depth infrastructure knowledge. - Deep technical understanding of Object Storage infrastructure, scale-out environments, and the Amazon S3 API protocol. -Practical experience working with DevOps and automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD). - Strong interest or growing proficiency in production-grade development with Golang. - Familiarity with storage ecosystems, low-level hardware, or distributed system monitoring (e.g., Ceph, MinIO, Scality, NVMe/SSDs, Prometheus, Grafana) is highly appreciated. 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 … - Screening (30 min) - Manager interview with Iannis Formet to understand your technical skills and approach to the role (45 min) - Technical deep dive to validate your expertise (1h) - Team fit interview to deepen your discussions and assess your fit with the team (45 min). On-site meeting to tour our offices and meet your future colleagues - Interview with the Head of the Tribe (30min)