Team Lead, Platform Engineering

Job description

About Volta Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds. 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 Will Be Doing Lead a platform engineering team: technical direction, design reviews, code review, and day-to-day delivery. Set the technical direction for your team's area of the stack, and design and build the platform layers it owns as product requirements take shape. Represent platform engineering in roadmap planning: translate product requirements into scoped, sequenced technical work, communicate trade-offs, and keep delivery on track. Work closely with the bring-up teams to surface operational pain points and turn them into scalable platform features. Collaborate with the security engineering team to integrate security guidance at the platform layer and ensure findings are remediated effectively. Coordinate with the other platform engineering leads on shared architecture, joint initiatives, and cross-team and cross-timezone delivery. Own reliability, observability, security, and interface and versioning standards for the services your team ships. Stay hands-on:…