Engineering Lead, Automation & Scale for AI Platform

Mirantis; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive package

Strong benefits plan

Open-source culture

Global teams

Job summary

Mirantis is seeking an Engineering Team Lead for Automation, Performance & Scale to own the k0rdent AI automation and non-functional verification efforts. You will lead a hands-on team across the US, Europe, and APAC, ensuring fast, scalable, and reliable delivery of the control plane for enterprise GPU infrastructure.

You will remain a senior individual contributor, coding, designing test systems, and driving evidence-based go/no-go decisions with the product and engineering leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering or SRE, with 2+ years leading engineers.
• Hands-on leader who designs frameworks and writes production code.
• Strong testing methodologies and modern quality practices.
• Experience with Python, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Docker.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the automation and performance engineering team; set direction and deliver commitments.
• Define release acceptance criteria and exit gates; coordinate verification across components.
• Promote quality practices: shift-left testing, CI quality gates, and code review standards.
• Contribute to roadmap planning and estimation; ensure non-functional requirements are captured.
• Establish and report quality and performance metrics to leadership.
• Design and evolve test automation frameworks and tooling for API, end-to-end, multi-cluster scenarios.
• Own performance and scale testing for control plane, GPU scheduling, and inference throughput.
• Build on-demand test environments across multi-region and bare-metal GPU topologies.
• Integrate automated suites and performance regression into CI/CD.
• Automate test results management and observability dashboards.
• Debug and troubleshoot complex failures and drive root-cause fixes.

Skills

Hands-on leadership

Python

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Load/Performance testing

Tools

pytest

k6

Locust

JMeter

Prometheus

Grafana

Docker

GitHub Actions

Job description

Mirantis is seeking an Engineering Team Lead for Automation, Performance & Scale to own the k0rdent AI automation and non-functional verification efforts. You will lead a hands-on team across the US, Europe, and APAC, ensuring fast, scalable, and reliable delivery of the control plane for enterprise GPU infrastructure.

You will remain a senior individual contributor, coding, designing test systems, and driving evidence-based go/no-go decisions with the product and engineering leadership.