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.
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