Team Lead, Platform Engineering (2x Openings)
Palo Alto, California, United States of America Hybrid
$250,000–$340,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
Volta builds and operates large scale GPU compute infrastructure for AI workloads. Our platform is Kubernetes-native, spans multiple regions, and delivers virtual machines, storage, and networking through a fully automated infrastructure stack. Platform Engineering is organized as capability teams, each owning a defined part of the stack: compute, storage, the control plane and API layer, confidential computing, networking, and the customer-facing surface. You will lead one of them. This is a hands-on leadership role. You set technical direction for your team's area, carry accountability for what it delivers, and manage the people doing the work. You are expected to stay close enough to the code to take on the hard problems yourself.
What you'll bring
- 5+ years in cloud platform or infrastructure engineering, with at least 2 years leading an engineering team.
- Strong backend or systems programming background in a production environment.
- Our working languages are Python, Go, and Rust
- we welcome strong engineers from other compiled or object-oriented languages (for example C++, C#, or Java) who are ready to work across our stack as it evolves.
- Kubernetes at depth: cluster operations, CNI networking, scheduling, and workload management in production.
- GPU infrastructure experience: provisioning, resource allocation, and surfacing capacity through a platform or API layer.
- Solid networking fundamentals: L2/L3, VLANs, overlay networks, and multi-tenant isolation in cloud environments.
- Service architecture skills: designing, operating, and versioning production-grade control-plane services and APIs across IaaS and above, holding the team to clean, industry-standard interface and breaking-change practices.
- Security awareness: trust boundaries, least privilege, and secure defaults when building platform services.
- Proven people management: running 1:1s, delivering performance feedback, and taking accountability for a team's delivery and wellbeing.
- Clear communicator who can translate technical complexity for product and leadership stakeholders.
- None of these are required.