Artemis Squad Tech Lead

About Pelico

At Pelico state-of-the-art technology meets supply-chain expertise in the search for operational excellence. Our manufacturing intelligence platform helps factories at Safran Airbus Daikin and other aerospace defense and industrial leaders stay agile and resilient turning disruption into decisions. Were a fast-growing international SaaS scale-up: 180 Pelicans 36 nationalities across Paris and Miami making real impact every day on the ground.

About The Squad

Pelico is a configuration-driven AI-native platform a field engineer stands up a running factory application by authoring YAML instead of writing code. Artemis is the squad that makes all of it deployable scalable and operable.We own horizontal scalability (scale-out compute workers backend autoscaling database scaling toward 1 billion events and 1000 concurrent users) and packaging & distribution building shipping and operating Pelico across cloud on-prem air-gapped agentic sandboxes demo and the field-engineer workstation.

Were an infra-heavy squad (a Tech Lead 3 backend engineers and 2 Platform Engineers) and everything every other squad ships rides on what we run.

One thing makes this role unusual. At Pelico coordinating complex distributed services isnt thrown over the wall to a separate ops team distributed coordination is a first-class service-level requirement owned in code. Software engineers and Platform Engineers co-own it (the worker fleet the broker/leader protocol the Coordinator lifecycle backpressure consistency under scale). Thats why this is a software-engineering role as much as an SRE/IaaS one and why we ask for real Java/Kotlin depth: youll ship and review the coordination code not just operate it the you build it you run it model applied to coordination.

Your mission

Youll own and personally build the infrastructure that turns Pelico into a system customers depend on:

1. Scale it. Engineer worker fan-out backend autoscaling and database scaling toward the 1-billion-event 1000-user bar.

2. Ship it everywhere. One build five targets cloud on-prem/air-gapped agentic sandbox demo and the field-engineer workstation via embeddable images the pelico infra CLI and multi-config templates with a real release-and-rollback path.

3. Operate it. Stand up observability and an incident-response harness golden signals SLOs on-call MTTR so Pelico stays up on customer infrastructure.

4. Run the edge and the AI substrate. Own the API-gateway / identity / edge-proxy runtime and config and co-own Pelicos AI infrastructure (MCP servers model registries prompt/skill libraries agent harnesses) with our AI-platform squad.

5. Lead by example. Write the distribution code the IaC and the runbooks; pair with your engineers; set the operational bar; and grow the squad as the reliability and leverage you ship earn it.

Your impact

Every squads code and every customer deployment runs on what Artemis builds. Get it right and you give the whole company and every Regional pod and field engineer a platform they can scale and deploy with confidence. Get it wrong and nothing reaches the factory floor. This is the highest-leverage infrastructure seat at Pelico.

What were looking for

This is a lead-by-example role for a senior engineer who is DevOps / SRE / IaaS at heart and a real software engineer because at Pelico distributed coordination is service-level code you co-own not hand off. You lead by being in the code the IaC and the on-call rotation with your team. Youre excited by high-blast-radius problems you measure yourself by reliability and the leverage you give others and youve shipped systems that scale and stay up.

Youll need:

• A track record of owning production infrastructure others build and run on scalability packaging/distribution deployment and operations

• IaC and orchestration Terraform or Pulumi Kubernetes Docker/OCI and a major cloud (AWS / GCP / Azure / OVH)

• SRE / operability observability (metrics logs traces) incident response SLOs/error budgets autoscaling

• Distributed coordination & backend scaling you treat coordination as service-level code (fleet/leader protocols orchestration lifecycle backpressure consistency) and can scale it (Postgres tuning connection pooling worker scale-out at large scale)

• Hands-on coding this is a coding seat (coordination is service-level code); we build in Java 25 / Kotlin (Maven reactor); strong here or a fast learner

• A track record of leading infra engineers by example not by leaving the keyboard

Nice to have:

• API-gateway / IdP / edge runtime config-as-product (Kong Keycloak Traefik or equivalents)

• AI infrastructure hosting MCP servers model registries prompt/skill libraries or agent harnesses

• GitLab CI at scale; release engineering / progressive delivery

• On-prem air-gapped or defense-grade deployment

• AI-native ways of working (agentic workflows eval on agent output spec-driven development)

• French is a plus not a requirement

If you bring the essentials and a strong mix of the rest we want to hear from you were hiring the person wholl make this real not a checklist. (Internal candidates ready to step up from a senior infra role: this seat is for you too.)

What we offer

• A real ownership mandate over Pelicos scalability and distribution with equity in a category-defining scale-up

• The highest-leverage infrastructure problems in the company with real customers and real scale

• An AI-native engineering culture and a small elite squad be challenged learn and have fun

Your interview experience

1. Intro call with Talent Acquisition (30 min)

2. Hiring manager conversation with the VP Engineering (45 min)

3. Case Study Onsite:
   - Scalability & distribution design deep-dive design how Pelico scales and ships across cloud on-prem and the field-engineer workstation (1h)
   - Live pairing session with the squad (1h30) work on real infra / IaC / deploy together; this is where we see how you lead by example

4. SRE & platform-as-product conversation (observability incident response adoption deprecation) (1h)

5. Leadership conversation founders (CEO/CTO)

6. References run in parallel

Pelico is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the manufacturers we serve. All applications are reviewed well get back to you.