Storage Engineering Manager

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 rich catalog of products and services (bare metal, containerization, serverless, AI, etc.), Scaleway proudly serves 38,000 private and public sector clients, from Photoroom to Mistral AI, Golem AI, and ADEME.

📍 Our offices are located in Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Rouen, Rennes and Lyon.

WHY WE NEED YOU ?

Our growth is driving us to strengthen our Storage team.

In this role you will:

• Lead a team responsible for enhancing and maintaining Scaleway’s homegrown object storage platform
• Foster team growth through effective mentorship, career development, and recruiting
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, automate, and scale distributed storage systems
• Ensure the team’s delivery of robust, high-performing solutions that meet operational and product requirements
  
  
  
  

YOUR FUTURE TEAM :

Scaleway’s Storage Tribe builds and operates the foundational storage products and infrastructure that power our customers’ data needs at massive scale. Managing hundreds of petabytes of data, we develop homegrown object and block storage platforms, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability. The tribe supports core Scaleway products like Instances, Databases, Registry, Kubernetes, and more, ensuring seamless integration and data availability across the stack.

Our high-performance platforms, leveraging technologies such as home-grown distributed encoding, Amazon S3 compatible API, and many opensource components like Ceph, HAProxy, and ExaBGP, handle hundreds of petabytes of customer data. With hundreds of storage servers, distributed over a dozen of data-centers across Europe, this is a challenging yet rewarding space for engineering excellence.

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 leading a team of up to 7 engineers (Software Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers - SREs) within the Storage Tribe. Working alongside two other Engineering Managers, you will report directly to the VP Network and Storage at Scaleway.

YOUR DAILY ROUTINE :

• Managing the team’s daily activities, prioritizing tasks and removing roadblocks
• Planning and delivering on engineering projects using Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Partnering with Product Management and other stakeholders to align technical work with business needs
• Providing technical guidance to the team, ensuring best practices in development, deployment, and operations
• Driving continuous improvement in performance, reliability, and efficiency of storage systems
• Monitoring system health and respond to incidents, working with the team to ensure rapid resolution
  
  
  
  

ABOUT YOU:

SOFTSKILLS :

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or Team Lead
• Strong human management skills, including mentorship, feedback delivery, and career development
• Proficiency in Agile project management methodologies and tools (e.g., Scrum, Kanban)
• Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  
  
  
  

💻 HARDSKILLS :

• Hands-on software development experience in production environments
• Strong foundational knowledge of computer science principles
• General understanding of high-load, distributed infrastructure, including hardware and networking
  
  
  
  

Proficiency in:

• Go (Golang)
• Linux (across various distributions and use cases)
• Configuration management tools like Ansible
• Modern monitoring tools like VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Grafana
• CI/CD pipeline development
  
  
  
  

Great if you have:

• Knowledge of low-level storage technologies (e.g., disks, SSDs, NVMe, RAID)
• Experience with C/C++ for systems programming
• Familiarity with high-performance systems and managing production environments at scale
  
  
  
  

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 (45 min)

Interview with the manager to understand your technical skills and approach to the role (60 min)

Interview with the two Engineering Managers to deepen your discussions and assess your fit with the team (60 min)

HR interview to tour our offices and meet your future colleagues

At Scaleway, we are committed to building an inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone has a fair opportunity to thrive.

All applications are considered with care, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic or social background, religion, disability, or any other characteristic.

We believe great ideas come from everywhere, and everyone which is why you should definitely apply.