Senior Software Engineer (Capacity and Quota Management)

Team: IT

Location: France

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Design, develop, and evolve the Capacity and Quota Management control plane responsible for allocating and managing compute resources.
• Build and maintain a capacity reservation engine that manages guaranteed GPU reservations throughout their lifecycle.
• Develop and improve resource rebalancing and automated reclamation mechanisms to maximise infrastructure utilisation while maintaining customer commitments.
• Build and evolve the Quotas Control Plane responsible for managing quotas across multiple services and handling customer and internal quota requests.
• Design and implement resource distribution algorithms that balance capacity availability, customer requirements, and operational constraints.
• Develop reliable APIs that provide external customers, internal users, and downstream services with visibility and control over resource limits and allocations.
• Solve complex distributed-systems challenges involving transactions, consistency, asynchronous processing, and service reliability.
• Contribute to the technical architecture and long-term evolution of the platform, making decisions that remain effective beyond individual features or projects.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to translate infrastructure and product requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
• Take strong ownership of engineering outcomes, proactively identifying opportunities to improve system reliability, scalability, resource efficiency, and operational performance.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally working on backend or distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of Python, or the willingness and ability to become productive quickly with the relevant technology stack.
• Proven experience designing and building distributed backend systems and microservice architectures.
• Solid understanding of distributed transactions, consistency models, and reliable asynchronous workflows.
• Experience developing scalable, resilient, and maintainable services in production environments.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to reason about complex system behaviour and architectural trade-offs.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and cross-functional stakeholders.
• A strong ownership mindset, with the autonomy and judgment to make technical decisions and drive initiatives from concept through implementation.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving, international environment where priorities and technical challenges evolve quickly.
• Experience with resource management, cloud infrastructure, capacity planning, quota systems, scheduling, or large-scale infrastructure platforms would be advantageous.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Opportunities for career growth, continuous learning, and professional development.
• Flexible working arrangements with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI and cloud infrastructure projects.
• Collaborative and innovative international working environment.
• Exposure to complex, large-scale distributed systems and challenging infrastructure problems.
• Meaningful opportunity to influence architecture, technical foundations, and the future evolution of the platform.
• Work alongside experienced engineers and talented teams operating across an international environment.