IaaS Platform Lead — Self-Service Compute for AI

Fluidstack; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI in San Francisco. We are seeking a leader for the Data Center Operations Team to drive compute provisioning, isolation, and lifecycle across our fleet.

You will own the platform layer between bare metal and customer workloads, develop self-service onboarding, and define platform SLOs with clear engineering priorities. Exceptional people welcome to build the future.

Qualifications

• Led teams building IaaS or cloud platform layers.
• Designed multi-tenant isolation trusted with real workloads.
• Cut onboarding or provisioning time by an order of magnitude and can explain how.
• Balanced platform roadmap against operational load.
• Bonus: bare-metal provisioning, GPU virtualization and passthrough, Kubernetes, cloud networking.

Responsibilities

• Lead the IaaS team delivering compute to customers: provisioning, isolation, and lifecycle across the fleet.
• Own the platform layer between bare metal and customer workloads: images, networking, and storage integration.
• Build self-service capability so customer onboarding shrinks from weeks to hours.
• Set platform SLOs and the engineering priorities that hold them.

Skills

IaaS leadership

Multi-tenant isolation design

Onboarding optimization

Roadmap balancing

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud networking

Bare-metal provisioning

GPU virtualization

Job description

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI in San Francisco. We are seeking a leader for the Data Center Operations Team to drive compute provisioning, isolation, and lifecycle across our fleet.

You will own the platform layer between bare metal and customer workloads, develop self-service onboarding, and define platform SLOs with clear engineering priorities. Exceptional people welcome to build the future.