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Head of Storage

scaleway
Companyscaleway
CategoryOperations & Admin
LocationParis
RemoteHybrid
EmploymentNot stated
LevelDirector
SalaryNot stated by the employer
Posted21 Jan 2026
Last verified10 Aug 2026
SourceEmployer ATS (lever)
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Description
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 o