The role involves owning the technical strategy and roadmap for agent-driven cluster lifecycle management, including provisioning, updates, and decommissioning. The individual will define and drive strategy regarding cluster scalability, homogeneity, and fault tolerance while collaborating with internal research, inference, and product teams. Responsibilities include ensuring new compute capacity is ingested on time and aligning with partner teams on physical build-out and high-bandwidth inter-cluster connectivity. The position requires establishing operational-excellence practices such as incident response and postmortem culture. Additionally, the role involves supporting the growth of engineers through technical mentorship and coaching.

Candidates must possess deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud platforms, alongside strong proficiency in at least one systems language such as Rust, Go, or Python. A proven track record of leading complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives and the ability to build alignment across senior stakeholders are required. Preferred candidates have at least eight years of software engineering experience, including time as a technical lead. A bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field is required.