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full-timeDirector, Platform Engineering (emea)
Volta · London, UK
Volta is an AI infrastructure platform focused on providing vertically integrated compute resources, ranging from hardware clusters to software layers. As the Director of Platform Engineering for the EMEA region, you will lead the regional engineering teams and serve as the primary deputy to the VP of Platform Engineering based in Palo Alto. Your core responsibilities include restructuring existing local teams, scaling the department through strategic hiring, and ensuring the technical coherence of the platform across continents. This role requires a hands-on leader who can participate in architecture and design reviews while overseeing the reliability, operational quality, and security of the platform. You will manage the critical interface between software and the underlying GPU hardware, fabric, and physical site infrastructure. The ideal candidate has a strong background in software engineering leadership, experience managing distributed teams, and a deep understanding of infrastructure components like virtualization, networking, and bare metal systems. You must be capable of navigating complex organizational boundaries and maintaining high delivery standards in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.
About Volta Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds. About The Role Volta builds and operates large scale GPU compute infrastructure for frontier AI customers. The software that turns racks of GPUs into a usable platform is its own product. You will lead Platform Engineering across EMEA and act as deputy to the VP, Platform Engineering, who is based in Palo Alto. You own the European teams and their delivery, and you partner with the VP closely enough that the two of you run one organization across two continents. This is a building role. Volta already has platform engineers in Europe, today managed from the US, and bringing them into a local structure is your first priority before growing the region into several teams. It is a software leadership role, but not an abstracted one. Our platform sits directly on GPU hardware, fabric, and physical sites, and it only works if it stays coherent with them. What You Will Be Doing Lead the EMEA platform engineering teams and own their delivery against the platform roadmap you set with the VP. Bring the platform engineers already in Europe into the EMEA structure in a way that keeps continuity for both the people and the work. Grow the region across multiple capability teams, build the team lead layer beneath you, and own hiring in region without lowering the bar. Act as the VP's deputy: represent Platform Engineering in EMEA, step in when they are unavailable, and keep the two regions aligned so the platform stays coherent. Stay hands-on enough to lead architecture and design reviews and to call the right answer when a technical debate needs one. Own reliability and operational quality for what the region ships, including on-call practice, incident response, and closing structural gaps after incidents. Own the boundary between the platform software and the hardware, fabric, and site layers beneath it, working with the infrastructure and project delivery teams whose work it depends on. Work with security engineering across the development lifecycle so security is built into the platform rather than added afterwards. Be credible in front of customers in region when the moment calls for it. What You Bring Track record building and leading software engineering teams, ideally toward 20-plus people across more than one team. Experience taking over and reorganizing an existing team, including moving people into a new reporting structure and keeping them engaged through it. Engineering leadership where you set direction and own delivery, not pure people management. You are still credible in a design review. Demonstrable understanding of what sits under a cloud service: virtualization, storage, networking, multi-tenancy, and the bare metal beneath them. You do not need to have run an IaaS business, but you need to know how one works. Enough working knowledge of the hardware to reason about where software meets GPU, fabric, and storage reality. Experience taking software from an early stage through to production, not only greenfield prototypes. The maturity to deputize for a senior leader across distance and time zones without needing to be managed. Judgment to work across organizational boundaries with peer engineering leaders, defining clean seams rather than fighting over them. Based in or willing to be on-site in London, with travel across a US and EU distributed organization. Nice to Have (But Not Essential) Direct experience with an IaaS or cloud platform, built or operated at scale. Background at a neocloud, hyperscaler, GPU cloud, or HPC environment where the software platform was the product. Familiarity with our current stack: KVM and QEMU, Ceph and SPDK, BGP and VXLAN, Kubernetes operators, PXE and Flatcar provisioning, and Go, Python, and Rust. This is where the platform is today, not a constraint on where it goes. Experience in a multi-region engineering organization, or deputizing for a more senior leader. Experience integrating or leveling up an inherited or acquired engineering team. Exposure to building higher-level services on top of an infrastructure platform. Fluency with AI-assisted development and a view on scaling agent-assisted workflows across an organization. Experience leading teams under ISO 27001 or SOC 2 obligations. REQ-78 What We Offer At Volta, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted and able to grow. We're building a company wh
| Role | Director, Platform Engineering (emea) |
|---|---|
| Company | Volta |
| Location | London, UK |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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