Software Engineer, DevEx

✨ About Mistral ✨

At Mistral AI, we believe in the power of AI to simplify tasks, save time, and enhance learning and creativity. Our technology is designed to integrate seamlessly into daily working life.

We democratize AI through high-performance, optimized, open-source and cutting-edge models, products and solutions. Our comprehensive AI platform is designed to meet enterprise needs, whether on-premises or in cloud environments. Our offerings include le Chat, the AI assistant for life and work.

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 France, USA, UK, Germany and Singapore. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.

Join us to be part of a pioneering company shaping the future of AI. Together, we can make a meaningful impact. See more about our culture on https://mistral.ai/careers.

🚀 Role Summary 🚀

We are seeking experienced Software Engineer, Developer Experience to own and fostering a collaborative, automated, and efficient software development lifecycle. In this role, you will collaborate closely with product engineering teams to ensure consistent code health, accelerate development velocity through well-maintained CI pipelines, faster builds, and secure release processes. Your mission: empowering our software engineering team with seamless workflows while securing our production environments.

Location: Paris 🇫🇷

🌟 What you will do 🌟

As a Software Engineer, Developer Experience, your responsibilities will include (but may not be limited to):

Developer Experience

• Build, monitor, and enhance CI/CD pipelines to streamline development workflows and accelerate deployments.
• Design, operate and maintain scalable, reliable and secure multi-cloud infrastructures
• Identify areas for improvement and create innovative solutions that enable high developer velocity

Team Collaboration & Advocacy

• Standardize DevOps practices to ensure consistency across all engineering teams.
• Establish measurable KPIs for security performance, reliability, and compliance adherence.
• Partner with development and operations teams to embed security into daily workflows.
• Lead training initiatives to upskill teams on secure coding, threat modeling, and incident response.
• Champion a security-first mindset, driving cultural adoption of DevSecOps principles across the organization.

Representative projects

• Improve CI/CD and build systems
• Optimize cloud registries (Docker, Azure, GCP)
• Implement static and dynamic code analysis tool
• Implement automated vulnerability analysis

💡 About you 💡

• 5+ years of successful experience in a similar role (DevOps, Developer Experience, Platform Engineer, Internal tooling engineer, SRE...)

• Strong proficiency in:

• Scripting languages (Go, Python...) and software development best practices.
• Developer experience engineering: developer workflow optimization, tooling and automation for productivity, real-time developer support and escalation paths
• Site Reliability Engineering: CI/CD, containerization, orchestration, infra-as-code, monitoring, logging, alerting, observability...

• Exposure to:

• Multi-cloud infrastructures (AWS / GCP / Azure or On-Prem)
• Security Tools & Approaches: OWASP, SAST, DAST, SCA, vulnerability scanners

• Proven:

• Problem-solving and communication skills — ability to contextualizing, gauging risks and getting buy-in for high stakes and impactful solutions.
• Ownership, high agency and desire to improve things for others.
• Autonomy, self-drive and ability to work well in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Low ego and team spirit mindset.

📈 Hiring Process 📈

• Intro Call - 30 min
• Hiring Manager Interview - 30 min
• Technical Rounds - 2 x ~45 min
• Culture-fit Discussion - 30 min
• Reference Calls

🌍 Location & Remote 🌍

The position is based in our Paris HQ offices and we encourage going to the office as much as we can (at least 3 days per week) to create bonds and smooth communication. Our remote policy aims to provide flexibility, improve work-life balance and increase productivity. Each manager can decide the amount of days worked remotely based on autonomy and a specific context (e.g. more flexibility can occur during summer). In any case, employees are expected to maintain regular communication with their teams and be available during core working hours.

🎁 What we offer 🎁

💰 Competitive salary and equity package
🧑‍⚕️ Health insurance
🚴 Transportation allowance
🥎 Sport allowance
🥕 Meal vouchers
💰 Private pension plan
🍼 Generous parental leave policy