volta - Team Lead, Platform Engineering
Requirements
• 5+ years in cloud platform or infrastructure engineering, with at least 2 years leading an engineering team. • Strong backend or systems programming background in a production environment. Our working languages are Python, Go, and Rust; we welcome strong engineers from other compiled or object-oriented languages (for example C++, C#, or Java) who are ready to work across our stack as it evolves. • Kubernetes at depth: cluster operations, CNI networking, scheduling, and workload management in production. • GPU infrastructure experience: provisioning, resource allocation, and surfacing capacity through a platform or API layer. • Solid networking fundamentals: L2/L3, VLANs, overlay networks, and multi-tenant isolation in cloud environments. • Service architecture skills: designing, operating, and versioning production-grade control-plane services and APIs across IaaS and above, holding the team to clean, industry-standard interface and breaking-change practices. • Security awareness: trust boundaries, least privilege, and secure defaults when building platform services. • Proven people management: running 1:1s, delivering performance feedback, and taking accountability for a team's delivery and wellbeing. • Clear communicator who can translate technical complexity for product and leadership stakeholders. • None of these are required. Several map to specific teams, so strength in one or more helps us match you to the right one: • Fluency with AI-assisted development, and interest in scaling agent-assisted workflows across the team (agentic CLI tools, MCP, skills, APIs) to amplify delivery. • Familiarity with confidential computing technologies: TEEs, AMD SEV, Intel TDX, or Confidential Containers (CoCo). • Experience building SaaS or PaaS layers on top of an IaaS platform. • Familiarity with RDMA, InfiniBand, or RoCE networking in GPU or HPC clusters. • Experience working distributed across time zones with counterparts in other regions. • Exposure to serverless or inference serving infrastructure.
Responsibilities
• Lead a platform engineering team: technical direction, design reviews, code review, and day-to-day delivery. • Set the technical direction for your team's area of the stack, and design and build the platform layers it owns as product requirements take shape. • Represent platform engineering in roadmap planning: translate product requirements into scoped, sequenced technical work, communicate trade-offs, and keep delivery on track. • Work closely with the bring-up teams to surface operational pain points and turn them into scalable platform features. • Collaborate with the security engineering team to integrate security guidance at the platform layer and ensure findings are remediated effectively. • Coordinate with the other platform engineering leads on shared architecture, joint initiatives, and cross-team and cross-timezone delivery. • Own reliability, observability, security, and interface and versioning standards for the services your team ships. • Stay hands-on: take on complex or high-risk engineering work directly alongside the team. • Run post-mortems and close structural gaps after incidents, not just the immediate issue. • Manage the team: 1:1s, performance conversations, hiring interviews, and onboarding.
Benefits
• United Kingdom£140K – £195K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • The posted range reflects the typical compensation for this role. Actual compensation is based on market rate, factoring in qualifications, experience, location, and the value you bring - while ensuring fairness and consistency across our organization. Eligible employees also receive a total rewards package, including a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and comprehensive benefits. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • Please note: To ensure fair review for all candidates, we limit applications to 3 per 60 days and block reapplication to the same role for 60 days after rejection. Thank you for your interest in joining our team! • Please note: • Candidates may not apply more than 3 times in any 60 days span for any job. • Candidates may not re-apply to the same role within 60 day(s) if not presented with an offer. • Candidates may not re-apply to any role within 90 day(s) if not presented with an offer • PDF, DOC, DOCX - max 10MB • or drag and drop here • Yes, I will require Volta to sponsor my employment • No, I do not require sponsorship to work in the country where this role is located • Do you agree to allow Volta Infrastructure Holdings Limited to contact you about job opportunities for up to 2 years? • Recruiting Privacy Policy
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