volta - Director, Platform Engineering (EMEA)
Requirements
• Track record building and leading software engineering teams, ideally toward 20-plus people across more than one team. • Experience taking over and reorganizing an existing team, including moving people into a new reporting structure and keeping them engaged through it. • Engineering leadership where you set direction and own delivery, not pure people management. You are still credible in a design review. • Demonstrable understanding of what sits under a cloud service: virtualization, storage, networking, multi-tenancy, and the bare metal beneath them. You do not need to have run an IaaS business, but you need to know how one works. • Enough working knowledge of the hardware to reason about where software meets GPU, fabric, and storage reality. • Experience taking software from an early stage through to production, not only greenfield prototypes. • The maturity to deputize for a senior leader across distance and time zones without needing to be managed. • Judgment to work across organizational boundaries with peer engineering leaders, defining clean seams rather than fighting over them. • Based in or willing to be on-site in London, with travel across a US and EU distributed organization. • Direct experience with an IaaS or cloud platform, built or operated at scale. • Background at a neocloud, hyperscaler, GPU cloud, or HPC environment where the software platform was the product. • Familiarity with our current stack: KVM and QEMU, Ceph and SPDK, BGP and VXLAN, Kubernetes operators, PXE and Flatcar provisioning, and Go, Python, and Rust. This is where the platform is today, not a constraint on where it goes. • Experience in a multi-region engineering organization, or deputizing for a more senior leader. • Experience integrating or leveling up an inherited or acquired engineering team. • Exposure to building higher-level services on top of an infrastructure platform. • Fluency with AI-assisted development and a view on scaling agent-assisted workflows across an organization. • Experience leading teams under ISO 27001 or SOC 2 obligations.
Responsibilities
• Lead the EMEA platform engineering teams and own their delivery against the platform roadmap you set with the VP. • Bring the platform engineers already in Europe into the EMEA structure in a way that keeps continuity for both the people and the work. • Grow the region across multiple capability teams, build the team lead layer beneath you, and own hiring in region without lowering the bar. • Act as the VP's deputy: represent Platform Engineering in EMEA, step in when they are unavailable, and keep the two regions aligned so the platform stays coherent. • Stay hands-on enough to lead architecture and design reviews and to call the right answer when a technical debate needs one. • Own reliability and operational quality for what the region ships, including on-call practice, incident response, and closing structural gaps after incidents. • Own the boundary between the platform software and the hardware, fabric, and site layers beneath it, working with the infrastructure and project delivery teams whose work it depends on. • Work with security engineering across the development lifecycle so security is built into the platform rather than added afterwards. • Be credible in front of customers in region when the moment calls for it.
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