Volta - Platform Engineer (10x Openings)
Requirements
• 3 to 5 years of software engineering experience, with a meaningful portion spent on infrastructure or platform systems. • Strong backend or systems programming experience 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. • Solid understanding of Kubernetes internals: the control loop model, CRDs, controllers and operators, and reliable reconciliation logic. • Comfortable working close to the infrastructure layer: Linux, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems behavior. • Experience designing, building, and versioning production-grade APIs or service interfaces that other teams depend on, including disciplined handling of breaking changes and backward compatibility. • Experience operating what you build: debugging production systems, and taking part in on-call or incident response. • Strong engineering fundamentals: clean code, testing, version control, code review, and CI/CD practices. • 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: agentic CLI tools, IDE assistants, and orchestrating multiple coding agents through MCP, skills, or APIs to amplify delivery. • Depth in Go or Rust beyond working proficiency. • Familiarity with confidential computing technologies: TEEs, AMD SEV, Intel TDX, or Confidential Containers (CoCo). • Experience integrating security requirements into platform or infrastructure systems. • Familiarity with high-performance networking: overlay protocols, BGP, RDMA, or packet-processing frameworks. • Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems (Ceph or similar) at an engineering level. • Background building Kubernetes operators using frameworks such as Kopf, controller-runtime, or similar. • Experience with observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or structured logging in distributed systems. • Experience building SaaS or PaaS layers on top of an IaaS platform. • Exposure to serverless or inference serving infrastructure. • Exposure to GPU infrastructure or HPC environments. • Experience working distributed across time zones with counterparts in other regions.
Responsibilities
• Common across every platform engineering team: • Design and implement Kubernetes operators and controllers that manage the lifecycle of platform resources. • Work closely with the product team to turn roadmap requirements into the platform capabilities that support them. • Collaborate with the bring-up teams to identify operational pain points and turn them into scalable platform features. • Integrate security guidance from the security engineering team into platform-level controls, and remediate findings at the platform layer. • Treat observability as a platform concern: instrument services, define meaningful metrics, and build tooling that gives the team visibility into platform health. • Own the services you build in production, including participation in an on-call rotation, incident response, and the follow-up work that closes structural gaps rather than only the immediate issue. • Hold to clean interface and versioning practice on anything other teams or customers depend on, including disciplined handling of breaking changes. • Participate in code review, technical design discussions, and cross-team collaboration in an Agile (Kanban or Scrum) environment. • Depending on your team and background, you will go deep in some of the following: • Control plane and APIs: improve and extend the API layer between user-facing services and the underlying platform, with disciplined versioning and backward compatibility. • Compute: build and operate the lifecycle of virtualized and bare metal compute resources. • Storage: provisioning workflows, attachment reliability, performance tuning, and failure handling. • Confidential computing: build and extend confidential computing capabilities across the stack, from secure bare metal and confidential VMs to Confidential Containers (CoCo). • Customer-facing services: the platform surfaces customers interact with directly, including the APIs and interfaces through which they consume capacity, working alongside product and UX.
Benefits
• United Kingdom £110K – £140K • 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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