Engineering Tech Lead (vMetal)
About The Position
As an Engineering Tech Lead on vMetal at vCluster Labs, you aren’t just running servers; you are the person who turns a rack of bare metal into a programmable platform. In this role, you will lead the engineering work behind vMetal, the systems that discover, provision, configure, and manage physical hardware so our customers can spin up tenant clusters on top of it. You will sit at the rare intersection of out-of-band server management and modern Go services, and you will set the technical bar as we grow the team. You will report to the VP of Engineering while we build out the team around you.
Requirements
- Production Go development experience, including designing clean services, APIs, and libraries.
- Experience shipping systems that drive servers via Redfish and IPMI in production, with an understanding of PXE boot end-to-end and debugging BMC issues.
- Experience building or operating bare-metal-as-a-service offerings, an AI Cloud, or a hyperscaler bare metal team.
- Ability to hold both server management and modern API design concepts in mind and design between them, with comfort in IPMI, iDRAC, and ILO consoles, and shipping Go controllers.
- Experience leading engineers technically through architecture decisions, code review, and hands-on mentorship.
- An operator's instinct, considering failure modes, telemetry, and recoverability before shipping, and experience being on-call for built systems.
Nice To Haves
- Comfort with Kubernetes internals, controllers, or operators for designing clean integration of bare metal hosts with tenant clusters.
- Production experience within an AI Cloud, hyperscaler, or large platform team where bare metal scale was critical.
- Meaningful contributions to open-source projects in the bare metal, provisioning, or Kubernetes ecosystem (e.g., Tinkerbell, Metal3, Cluster API, Ironic).
- Interest in eventually growing into an Engineering Manager or Architect path as the team scales.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction of vMetal, including architecture decisions, roadmap for bare metal provisioning and lifecycle management, and setting the standard for code review and design quality.
- Build Go services that turn raw hardware into APIs, designing and shipping systems that drive Redfish, IPMI, and PXE workflows.
- Own the server discovery, inventory, provisioning, configuration, and reclamation processes, eliminating manual intervention and designing for hardware failures.
- Translate between traditional out-of-band server management and modern Kubernetes-native patterns, deciding where abstractions live and how vMetal exposes hardware to tenant clusters.
- Help grow the vMetal team by setting the technical bar in interviews, partnering on the interview loop, and mentoring engineers.
- Partner with customer engineering and the broader platform team to debug, harden, and ship against real production workloads, being on-call for built systems and treating reliability as a first-class deliverable.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package, including equity.
- Platinum-level insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents.
- Flexible working schedule.
- Workplace flexibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
