Production Engineer, IaaS Team Lead

Fluidstack; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 225,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack in Seattle is seeking a senior leader to helm the IaaS team, delivering compute to customers with a focus on provisioning, isolation, and lifecycle across the fleet. You will align platform delivery with rapid growth and high availability in a demanding environment.

You will own the layer between bare metal and workloads, build self-service onboarding, and define platform SLOs and priorities to drive faster time-to-value for customers.

Qualifications

• Led teams building IaaS or cloud platform layers.
• Designed multi-tenant isolation for real workloads.
• Cut onboarding time by an order of magnitude somewhere and can say how.
• Balances platform roadmap against operational load honestly.
• Bonus: Bare-metal provisioning, GPU virtualization, Kubernetes, and cloud networking.

Responsibilities

• Lead the IaaS team delivering compute to customers.
• Own the platform layer between bare metal and customer workloads.
• Build self-service capability so onboarding shrinks from weeks to hours.
• Set platform SLOs and the engineering priorities that hold them.

Skills

IaaS leadership

Cloud platform design

Multi-tenant isolation design

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it. We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

The Data Center Operations Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Operate at the scale of a nation, not a building. The fleet you run will draw more power than some countries, on the way to 10s to 100s of GWs.
• Fly the plane while it's being built. Sites come online in pieces, and you keep the live ones running flawlessly while construction continues around them.
• Write the playbook, don't inherit it. No prior operations org has run at this speed and scale, so the standards you set become the standard.

Role Scope

• 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.

What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.

• You've led teams building IaaS or cloud platform layers.
• You've designed multi-tenant isolation that customers trusted with real workloads.
• You've cut onboarding or provisioning time by an order of magnitude somewhere, and can say how.
• You balance platform roadmap against operational load honestly.
• Bonus: Bare-metal provisioning. GPU virtualization and passthrough. Kubernetes. Cloud networking.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Compensation Range: $225K - $284K