Production Engineering Lead, Compute
About The Position
Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, aiming to deliver 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else. This involves rethinking every layer of the stack, from acquiring power to designing, building, and operating data centers. The company operates with a focus on extreme ownership, velocity, first principles, and a deep passion for the problem space. The Data Center Operations Team is tasked with operating at the scale of a nation, managing a fleet that will draw more power than some countries, and bringing sites online rapidly while maintaining flawless operation of live systems. The team is responsible for writing the operational playbook for this unprecedented speed and scale. This role specifically leads the compute production engineering team responsible for keeping tens of thousands of GPUs serving customers. The lead will own fleet availability for compute, defining SLOs, building tooling, and improving metrics. Key responsibilities include building automation for the entire node lifecycle (provisioning, health checks, remediation, return to service) without human intervention, and setting up an effective on-call and escalation model that maintains sharp response times without causing burnout.
Requirements
- Led SRE or production engineering teams running large fleets.
- Moved an availability number and can explain exactly how.
- Shipped automated remediation that retired a runbook.
- Hire and grow strong engineers, and they say so.
Nice To Haves
- GPU or HPC fleets.
- Kubernetes or Slurm.
- Hardware failure analytics.
- Customer-facing reliability.
Responsibilities
- Lead the compute production engineering team keeping tens of thousands of GPUs serving customers.
- Own fleet availability for compute: define the SLOs, build the tooling, and move the number.
- Build automation for the node lifecycle, provisioning, health checks, remediation, return to service, without human touch.
- Set the on-call and escalation model that keeps response sharp without burning the team out.
Benefits
- Commitment to pay equity and transparency.
- Equal Employment Opportunity Employer status.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
