--- title: 'Senior Platform Engineer - ARTESCA at Scality' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-platform-engineer-artesca-scality-paris-xd0rjrsma6me' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-13' --- # Senior Platform Engineer - ARTESCA at Scality - **Company:** Scality - **Location:** Paris, France - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/scality/5e0777f7-dcf5-47e9-9373-3e00a562fcb3 ## Job description About Scality: Scality solves organisations’ biggest data storage challenges: growth, security, performance, and cost. Designed for end-to-end cyber resilience, only Scality S3 object storage with CORE5 safeguards data at every level of the system, from API to architecture. Its patented MultiScale Architecture enables limitless, independent scalability in all critical dimensions to meet the unpredictable demands of modern workloads. The world’s most discerning companies depend on Scality to accelerate high-performance AI initiatives, optimize cloud deployments, and defend their data with confidence. Recognized as a leader by Gartner, Scality software is reliable, secure, and sustainable. Follow us on LinkedIn. Visit www.scality.com and our blog. The Job Context We are looking for engineers who can own, maintain and evolve the platform and tooling that power [ARTESCA](https://www.artesca.scality.com/) — Scality’s cyber-resilient S3 storage, allowing our customers to get immutable, zero-trust backup storage that scales from 20TB to petabytes. You’ll be integrated in a team of ~7 people with varied backgrounds (production operations, pure development, security, product management…) ranging from 1 to 30+ years of experience, all willing and able to share their experience to contribute to your technical and human growth, and to benefit from your experience as well. You will be taking part in MK8s open source project (https://github.com/scality/metalk8s). Inside the team, we have specific roles and plenty of growing paths for you: - Individual contributor: everybody participates in the daily work of the team. - Feature lead: to accompany a feature from design to delivery. - Technical lead: to be the reference point for a specific perimeter in the product. - Architect: to lead feature designs and make sure we stay aligned with the technical strategy of the company. - Product owner: to decide priorities and build the roadmap. - Team leader: acting as a manager, to be responsible for the work environment in general, from approving holidays to sharing company strategy throughout solving day-to-day issues. The Technical Stack - Kubernetes - Custom K8S (Scality metalk8s) - Containerd - Helm - Kubevirt - Multus - Calico - Cert-Manager - Gateway Api - Languages: Golang / Python / Bash - OS: Rocky Linux / RPM packaging - Orchestration: Salt - Observability: Prometheus,Grafana  Thanos, Loki, Fluent-bit - Virtualization: VMWare vSphere, Proxmox, Hyper-V - SGBDR: PostgreSQL - Git / GitHub / Github Actions as CI - Cloud Providers: AWS/Scaleway/OVH for virtual labs Main Mission: What you’ll do - Build and maintain the platform behind ARTESCA: the Operating System and Kubernetes control plane, workers, add-ons, and solutions that underpin ARTESCA in its various deployment options (Software Appliance, Hardware Appliance, Virtual Appliance, and ARTESCA+ Veeam all-in-one). - Harden security and compliance: CIS benchmarks, SBOM, vulnerability management tooling (e.g. Dependency-Track/Anchore), and secret management — directly supporting ARTESCA’s cyber resilience and Cyber Guarantee. - Contribute to installer and product workflows: multi-node/HA deployment, state management, pre-checks, and cloud/vendor integrations (e.g. AWS, VMWare) for guided deployment and validated backup vendor integrations (Veeam, Cohesity, Commvault, Rubrik, and others). - Own upgrades and lifecycle: Operating System and Kubernetes versions, Helm charts, operators, and base images so the product stays secure, simple to deploy, and ready for high availability and fast restores. - Ensure ARTESCA stays intuitive, low-touch and recovery-ready at scale by : - writing and maintaining documentation (operations, install, solutions) - writing and maintaining  tests (integration, upgrade, stability) - Improve CI/CD: GitHub Actions, devcontainers, diff-based or cost-aware CI, automated testing to release reliably. AI-Assisted Engineering We actively use AI tools (including Claude Code and similar) as part of our engineering workflow. You will: - use AI to explore codebases, generate implementations, and debug systems - validate and refine AI-generated code in production-grade environments - understand AI limitations and contribute to improve used in complex system engineering We expect engineers to: - understand when AI accelerates work vs when deeper reasoning is required - maintain strong ownership of correctness and system behavior The Desired Profile In General - 5+ years of experience as Sysadmin / SRE ## Key Skills Human - Strong ownership and autonomy - Friendly, willing to collaborate with other team members - Solution oriented, curious and open, willing to learn, problem-solving mindset - Able to pursue any technical lead, and to ask when facing a difficult situation - Care about both correctness and delivery Languages - French speaker, as the team is based in France - Good level of English for day-to-day work to interact with other teams. Technical - Expertise with Linux systems and sysadmin troubleshooting, particularly under RHEL/Rocky. - A strong knowledge in network (CNI, VLAN, VIP, DNS, Switch configuration L2/L3, Load Balancing) - Good experience in security, compliance and hardening linux (SELinux Policies, CIS, Vulnerability Management) - DevOps mindset, able to code, understand, and check how this code behaves on production - Comfortable working across layers (Infrastructure -> Code -> CI) - Experience in automated deployment (PXE, custom ISO, kickstart, virtual machine images) - Experience in Salt or any other orchestration tool like Ansible - Experience in an hardened K8S stack (rootless/distroless/policy engine) - Python and Bash knowledge - CI systems - Advanced knowledge of a version control system (Git) Bonus Skills - Development experience (Golang) - Installer/product experience (multi-cloud, PXE/kickstart, Packer, OVA/AMI/QCOW2) for air-gapped systems - Documentation driven - PKI/solutions (e.g. CRL, cert-manager) - Ability to write custom SELinux policies - Expertise with FIPs and LUKS  Securisations - RHEL expertise or certifications - LAN Switching expertise (L2/L3, port aggregation, stack) - Software development & release expertise - Cloud engineering skills (e.g. AWS, Terraform, Pulumi) - All other things listed in our technical stack (see below) - Any other expertise ;) Life@scality: We offer careers with an opportunity to bridge international borders, working alongside a highly skilled and international team across Europe and Asia. Hybrid work model: minimum 2 days/week in our Paris office, remainder remote Access to training and professional certification programs to support your career growth Sports and wellness programs, social responsibility initiatives, and generous benefits packages Stock options distribution Our internal motto is : “work hard, play hard, eat well and amaze the customer!” Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn. Visit www.scality.com and our blog. At Scality, we believe diversity drives innovation. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming applicants of all backgrounds, identities, and abilities. ## About Scality ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Scality builds software-defined data infrastructure for organizations that require massive scale, cyber resilience, and sovereign control over their data. - **Entity Type**: Private (profitable, independent, no IPO clock) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (joint engineering hub with Paris, France) - **Founded**: 2009 - **Founders**: Jérôme Lecat, Giorgio Regni ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Data infrastructure software – object storage, cyber resilience, and autonomous data management. - **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise, government, banks, telcos, hospitals, broadcasters, and research institutions (1,000+ enterprises in production). - **Mission**: "Build the data infrastructure for organizations whose data can't fail." ## Products & Services - **[Scality RING](https://www.scality.com/products/ring)**: Core software-defined object storage platform with MultiScale Architecture – scales capacity, performance, and operations independently from petabyte to exabyte scale. - **[Scality ARTESCA](https://www.scality.com/products/artesca)**: Lightweight, cyber-resilient S3 object storage appliance for the modern stack, designed for simplicity and immutability. - **[Scality ADI](https://www.scality.com/products/adi)**: Autonomous Data Infrastructure – a new generation product that autonomously aligns storage media, performance, and protection to each stage of the data lifecycle, optimized for AI/ML workloads. - **[CORE5 Cyber Resilience](https://www.scality.com/core5)**: End-to-end five-layer defense framework (immutability via S3 Object Lock, encryption, zero-trust IAM, metadata separation, erasure coding, multi-site replication). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: $45M annual revenue (LinkedIn estimate); $182M total funding across 8 rounds (LinkedIn) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in available sources – the company emphasizes its independence and lack of a "hyperscaler agenda." - **Growth Signals**: 185 employees (+14.7% YoY, +32 people); customers in 70+ countries; offices in San Francisco, Paris, Washington D.C., London, Tokyo; 1,000+ enterprises in production; new product launches (ARTESCA, ADI) in response to AI and cyber resilience demands. ## Competitive Advantages - **MultiScale Architecture**: Patented technology that allows independent scaling of capacity, performance, and operations without rearchitecting – a key differentiator for exabyte-level workloads. - **CORE5 Cyber Resilience**: Deep, layered security from the API down to the storage architecture, including SEC 17a-4 compliance and policy-driven immutability. - **Private, Profitable, Independent**: No pressure to chase short-term metrics or hyperscaler alignment; the company reinvests in long-term architecture and customer needs. - **Deep Engineering Expertise**: 17+ years of building storage software that must outlive hype cycles; engineering split between San Francisco and Paris since 2009. ## Strategic Focus - **AI Workloads**: Scality ADI is positioned as the data infrastructure for the AI era, removing replatforming overhead and integrating with modern AI toolchains. - **Cyber Resilience**: Continues to invest in the CORE5 framework as ransomware and sovereignty regulations become paramount. - **Data Sovereignty**: Helping customers comply with emerging data residency laws through on-premise and hybrid deployments. - **Scale & Performance**: Targeting multi-petabyte to exabyte deployments with TB/s throughput and billions of objects. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: "Go deep on the hard problems instead of around them"; emphasis on patents, multi-year architecture, and rewriting foundations when needed. Engineers work on infrastructure that must keep working when stakes are highest. - **Work Environment**: Engineering split between San Francisco and Paris (two main hubs); customer-facing teams in 5 offices across 3 continents. Mobility across offices "where the role allows." Hybrid/remote appears flexible based on role. - **Benefits**: Training stipend, foreign language classes, comprehensive health insurance, flexible spending accounts (US), mental health support, and mobility across offices. - **Growth & Stability**: Profitable, independent, and growing headcount (14.7% YoY). Opportunity to shape the next generation of data infrastructure without the distraction of an IPO timeline. - **Diversity & Inclusion**: Equal opportunity employer; backs causes employees care about (mentoring non-traditional talent, environmental work, community giving). ## Sources 1. [scality.com/careers](https://www.scality.com/careers) 2. [scality.com/about](https://www.scality.com/about) 3. [scality.com](https://www.scality.com/) 4. [linkedin.com/company/scality](https://www.linkedin.com/company/scality) ## Other roles at Scality - [Internship – End-of-Studies Research Project](https://feeny.ai/job/internship-end-of-studies-research-project-scality-paris-p9tad8ffmgqg) — Paris, France - [Inside Channel Manager – DACH](https://feeny.ai/job/inside-channel-manager-dach-scality-bucharest-rbnt4vgzfd6j) — Bucharest, Romania - [Documentation Project Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/documentation-project-manager-scality-paris-ve7k746jdtg5) — Paris, France