Lead/Manager Together Cloud Infrastructure
Leads and manages an infrastructure engineering team building globally distributed GPU cloud services, management planes, and customer-facing platform capabilities. The role requires 5+ years building fault-tolerant distributed systems, strong cloud and systems expertise, and experience with team leadership and talent development.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of eight Together Cloud Infrastructure Engineers in Amsterdam.
- Identify, design, and develop foundational backend services powering the commerce platform.
- Analyze and improve the robustness and scalability of distributed systems, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
- Partner with product teams to understand functional requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
- Write clear, well-tested, and maintainable software and infrastructure as code (IaC) for new and existing systems.
- Conduct design and code reviews, create developer documentation, and develop testing strategies for robustness and fault tolerance.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to address critical incidents when necessary.
Requirements
- Five or more years of experience building large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems and API microservices.
- One to two years of experience leading an infrastructure team preferred.
- Demonstrated experience acquiring and retaining talent.
- Experience designing, analyzing, and improving the efficiency, scalability, and stability of system resources.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write clear design documents and work effectively with technical and non-technical team members.
- Experience building and operating high-performance or globally distributed microservice architectures across one or more cloud providers.
- Strong systems knowledge across compute, networking, and storage, including concurrency, memory management, performant I/O, and scaling.
- Experience developing against and managing relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
- Expert-level programming ability in one or more languages; Golang preferred.
- Proficiency in version-control practices and integrating IaC with CI/CD pipelines.
- Kubernetes and container experience preferred.
- Experience building and operating data infrastructure such as Kinesis, Airflow, or Kafka is a plus.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Compensation and Benefits
- Hybrid working arrangement with two days per week in the Amsterdam office.
Skills
Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Postgres, AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, CI/CD, Kafka, Apache Airflow, Amazon Kinesis, Distributed Systems, Microservices, Infrastructure As Code
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