# Production Engineering Lead, Compute

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $269k – $335k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** SRE, production engineering, Kubernetes, slurm, GPU, hpc, hardware failure analytics
**Posted:** 2026-07-21

> Lead the compute production engineering team at Fluidstack, owning availability SLOs, automation for node lifecycle (provisioning to remediation), and on-call models for tens of thousands of GPUs at nation-scale. Requires prior leadership of large-fleet SRE/production teams, proven availability improvements, and automated remediation experience.

## Job Description

## Lead the Compute Production Engineering Team

- Own fleet availability for compute: define SLOs, build tooling, and improve the availability number.
- Build automation for the node lifecycle: provisioning, health checks, remediation, return to service with zero human touch.
- Set the on-call and escalation model that maintains sharp response times without burning out the team.
- Lead the team responsible for keeping tens of thousands of GPUs serving customers at nation-scale.

## Requirements
- Led SRE or production engineering teams running large fleets.
- Demonstrated ability to move an availability number with clear explanations of methods used.
- Shipped automated remediation that retired a runbook.
- Experience hiring and growing strong engineers (with positive feedback from reports).

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with GPU or HPC fleets.
- Kubernetes or Slurm.
- Hardware failure analytics.
- Customer-facing reliability work.

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