Compute Production Lead: GPU Fleet & Automation

Fluidstack; Seattle, New York, Austin, San Francisco (WA, NY, TX, CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack in Seattle is building civilization-scale AI infrastructure. The Data Center Operations Team leads compute production engineering for tens of thousands of GPUs, ensuring high availability and fast fault remediation.

You will own fleet availability, define SLOs, build tooling, automate node lifecycle, and set on-call. The role requires strong leadership of large fleets and a track record of automating remediation.

Qualifications

• You've led SRE or production engineering teams running large fleets.
• You've moved an availability number and can explain exactly how.
• You've shipped automated remediation that retired a runbook.
• You hire and grow strong engineers, and they say so.
• Bonus: GPU or HPC fleets. Kubernetes or Slurm. Hardware failure analytics. Customer-facing reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead the compute production engineering team keeping tens of thousands of GPUs serving customers.
• Own fleet availability for compute: define the SLOs, build the tooling, and move the number.
• Build automation for the node lifecycle, provisioning, health checks, remediation, return to service, without human touch.
• Set the on-call and escalation model that keeps response sharp without burning the team out.

Skills

Led SRE teams

Large fleet experience

Automated remediation

Hiring engineers

GPU HPC bonus

Tools

Kubernetes

Slurm

Job description

Fluidstack in Seattle is building civilization-scale AI infrastructure. The Data Center Operations Team leads compute production engineering for tens of thousands of GPUs, ensuring high availability and fast fault remediation.

You will own fleet availability, define SLOs, build tooling, automate node lifecycle, and set on-call. The role requires strong leadership of large fleets and a track record of automating remediation.