Lead Platform Engineer, AI Infrastructure & GPU

Volta; Palo Alto (CA); Presencial; USD 230.000 - 280.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary

Equity in Volta

Retirement contributions

Health and insurance benefits

Generous vacation days

Descripción de la vacante

Volta is hiring a hands-on Platform Engineering Lead to steer a Kubernetes-based GPU compute infrastructure platform. You will set technical direction, own delivery, and mentor engineers across multiple time zones while staying close to code.

You will lead architecture, security alignment, and cross-team collaboration to ensure reliable, scalable services with clear interfaces and robust observability.

Formación

• 5+ years in cloud platform or infrastructure engineering
• 2+ years leading an engineering team
• Strong backend or systems programming in production
• Proficiency with Python, Go, and Rust or similar languages
• In-depth Kubernetes experience in production
• GPU infrastructure provisioning and platform APIs
• Solid networking fundamentals for cloud environments
• Experience architecting production-grade control-plane services
• Security-conscious design and least-privilege mindset
• Proven people management and clear communication

Responsabilidades

• Lead a platform engineering team: technical direction, design reviews, code reviews, delivery
• Set technical direction for your stack area and build platform layers as requirements evolve
• Represent platform engineering in roadmap planning and translate requirements into work
• Collaborate with bring-up teams to surface pain points and build scalable features
• Coordinate with security to integrate guidance at the platform layer
• Coordinate with other leads for cross-team delivery across time zones
• Own reliability, observability, security, and API/versioning standards
• Stay hands-on with complex engineering work
• Run post-mortems and close structural gaps after incidents
• Manage the team: 1:1s, performance feedback, hiring, onboarding

Conocimientos

Cloud platform engineering

People leadership

Backend systems

Python/Go/Rust

Kubernetes

GPU infrastructure

Networking fundamentals

APIs and service architecture

Security awareness

Staff coaching and 1:1s

Herramientas

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Linux

Descripción del empleo

Volta is hiring a hands-on Platform Engineering Lead to steer a Kubernetes-based GPU compute infrastructure platform. You will set technical direction, own delivery, and mentor engineers across multiple time zones while staying close to code.

You will lead architecture, security alignment, and cross-team collaboration to ensure reliable, scalable services with clear interfaces and robust observability.