Network Platform Engineering Lead

Volta; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Volta

Comprehensive health benefits

Competitive vacation

Job summary

Volta is seeking a senior leader to head the network platform engineering team, shaping the fabric design and automation for large-scale GPU compute infrastructure. You will set direction for fabric, overlay, and multi-tenant isolation, and drive reliability and observability across sites.

You will own APIs and control-plane integrations that expose network capabilities to tenants, collaborate with bring-up teams, and guide vendor engagements while maintaining security and performance at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in large scale data center or cloud network engineering
• Production software development in Python/Go/Rust
• Experience with Ethernet fabric design and ops
• RoCE v2 at scale and InfiniBand production experience
• EVPN/VXLAN in production environments
• Network automation at scale (NetBox/Nautobot, CI)
• Kubernetes networking (CNI)
• Multi-vendor evaluation and procurement
• Security considerations in multi-tenant networks
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Willing to be on site during cluster bring-up

Responsibilities

• Lead the network platform engineering team: direction, reviews, delivery
• Set technical direction for platform network layers: fabric, overlay, isolation
• Own fabric standards (RoCE v2, InfiniBand) across sites
• Translate product requirements into technical work and roadmaps
• Define APIs and IaaS control plane exposure for tenants
• Partner with bring-up teams to turn pain points into scalable features
• Evaluate OEM designs and hold vendors to Volta's requirements
• Support customer-facing technical conversations
• Collaborate on security boundaries and remediation
• Coordinate with other platform leads on shared architecture
• Ensure reliability, observability, versioning standards
• Stay hands-on with high-risk engineering work
• Run post-mortems and drive continuous improvements
• Manage the team: 1:1s, performance reviews, hiring

Skills

Data center networking

People management

Python/Go/Rust

Kubernetes networking (CNI)

RoCE v2 / InfiniBand

Network automation

Multi-vendor credibility

Security in multi-tenant networks

Strong communication

On-site bring-up readiness

Tools

NetBox

Nautobot

CI pipelines

Kubernetes tooling

Job description

Volta is seeking a senior leader to head the network platform engineering team, shaping the fabric design and automation for large-scale GPU compute infrastructure. You will set direction for fabric, overlay, and multi-tenant isolation, and drive reliability and observability across sites.

You will own APIs and control-plane integrations that expose network capabilities to tenants, collaborate with bring-up teams, and guide vendor engagements while maintaining security and performance at scale.