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Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Cloud Infrastructure
Scaleway · Lille, HDF, France
Lille, HDF, FranceHybrid
Remuneration
Benefits include up to three remote-work days per week, meals or a lunch card, breakfast, gym access, daycare places, discounted care services, and internal mobility.
Location
Lille, HDF, France
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Principal Site Reliability Engineer provides technical leadership across an SRE organization supporting a sovereign cloud platform, shaping architecture, standards, and engineering practices for reliability, performance, and scalability. The role guides Lead SREs and a community of approximately 40 to 60 SREs, addressing complex distributed infrastructure challenges and advancing observability, incident management, resilience, and production readiness across public cloud systems.
Benefits
Up to 3 days of remote work per weekMeal service or lunch cardBreakfast at work sitesGym accessDaycare placesDiscounted care servicesInternal mobility
Qualifications
- Extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps in large-scale environments.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, high-load infrastructure, and cloud architectures.
- Broad infrastructure expertise and ability to navigate unfamiliar technologies.
- Proven ability to solve complex reliability, scalability, and performance challenges.
- Strong understanding of observability, incident management, automation, and production operations.
- Track record of technical leadership and influence across multiple engineering teams.
- Ability to define technical standards and drive their adoption across a large engineering organization.
- Strong communication, stakeholder alignment, empathy, and collaboration skills.
- Curiosity, continuous learning, and ability to operate autonomously across complex technical contexts.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and strategic direction across the SRE organization.
- Guide Lead SREs on complex technical challenges and engineering practices.
- Define and promote SRE standards, best practices, and technical principles.
- Address architectural challenges across large-scale distributed cloud infrastructure.
- Improve reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and resilience.
- Shape monitoring, incident management, and production readiness practices.
- Identify systemic reliability risks and technical debt, and drive improvements.
- Bridge SRE, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams on cross-functional challenges.
- Provide expert guidance on high-load and distributed systems.
- Contribute to large-scale technical initiatives across teams and products.
Languages
EnglishFrench
Industry
Cloud computingArtificial intelligence
Relocation
No