Production Engineer, Compute Team Lead

Fluidstack

• $130K — $155K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience leading SRE or production engineering teams with large fleets.
  • Proven track record of improving availability metrics and articulating the process.
  • Experience in developing automated remediation processes that eliminate manual runbooks.
  • Strong leadership skills with a focus on hiring and mentoring engineers.
  • Bonus: Familiarity with GPU or HPC fleets, Kubernetes, Slurm, and hardware failure analytics.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the compute production engineering team managing a large fleet of GPUs.
  • Define service level objectives (SLOs) and ensure fleet availability.
  • Develop automation for the entire node lifecycle, including provisioning and health checks.
  • Implement a robust on-call and escalation model to maintain responsiveness without team burnout.
  • Build tooling to enhance operational efficiency and reliability.

Benefits

  • Commitment to pay equity and transparency.
Full Job Description
Role Scope
  • 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.
What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly,tell us where you would.
  • You've led SRE or production engineering teams running large fleets.
  • You've moved an availability number and can explain exactly how.
  • You've shipped automated remediation that retired a runbook.
  • You hire and grow strong engineers, and they say so.
  • Bonus: GPU or HPC fleets. Kubernetes or Slurm. Hardware failure analytics. Customer-facing reliability.


We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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