Facilities Production Engineering Lead

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 208,000 - 269,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Lead for the Data Center Operations Team to own the facilities production engineering work, hire and align priorities, and ensure on-call health as the fleet scales. You will connect site needs to engineering output, drive the operating rhythm with site operators, and coach engineers across the OT/IT boundary to meet aggressive performance goals.

We value extreme ownership, velocity, and first principles; this role offers high autonomy in a rapidly

Qualifications

• Managed engineering teams shipping into operational environments.
• Balanced roadmap work against interrupt-driven site support.
• Hired for rare hybrid skill sets and built people into them.
• Teams keep shipping when the pager is loud.
• Bonus: Facilities or industrial software, data center ops exposure, SRE practices, OT familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Lead the facilities production engineering team: hiring, priorities, delivery, and on-call health.
• Own the roadmap connecting site needs to engineering output, sequenced by fleet impact.
• Run the operating rhythm with site operators so the team builds what shifts actually need.
• Grow engineers across the OT/IT boundary, a skill set the market barely produces.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Hybrid skill sets

SRE practices

OT systems familiarity

Tools

Industrial software

Job description

Fluidstack in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Lead for the Data Center Operations Team to own the facilities production engineering work, hire and align priorities, and ensure on-call health as the fleet scales. You will connect site needs to engineering output, drive the operating rhythm with site operators, and coach engineers across the OT/IT boundary to meet aggressive performance goals.

We value extreme ownership, velocity, and first principles; this role offers high autonomy in a rapidly