Director, Platform Engineering

Track record building and leading software engineering teams, ideally toward 20-plus people across more than one team.

Experience taking over and reorganizing an existing team, including moving people into a new reporting structure and keeping them engaged through it.

Engineering leadership where you set direction and own delivery, not pure people management. You are still credible in a design review.

Demonstrable understanding of what sits under a cloud service: virtualization, storage, networking, multi-tenancy, and the bare metal beneath them. You do not need to have run an IaaS business, but you need to know how one works.

Enough working knowledge of the hardware to reason about where software meets GPU, fabric, and storage reality.

Experience taking software from an early stage through to production, not only greenfield prototypes.

The maturity to deputize for a senior leader across distance and time zones without needing to be managed.

Judgment to work across organizational boundaries with peer engineering leaders, defining clean seams rather than fighting over them.

Based in or willing to be on-site in London, with travel across a US and EU distributed organization.

Direct experience with an IaaS or cloud platform, built or operated at scale.

Background at a neocloud, hyperscaler, GPU cloud, or HPC environment where the software platform was the product.

Familiarity with our current stack: KVM and QEMU, Ceph and SPDK, BGP and VXLAN, Kubernetes operators, PXE and Flatcar provisioning, and Go, Python, and Rust. This is where the platform is today, not a constraint on where it goes.

Experience in a multi-region engineering organization, or deputizing for a more senior leader.

Experience integrating or leveling up an inherited or acquired engineering team.

Exposure to building higher-level services on top of an infrastructure platform.

Fluency with AI-assisted development and a view on scaling agent-assisted workflows across an organization.

Experience leading teams under ISO 27001 or SOC 2 obligations. REQ-78