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Engineering Tech Lead As an Engineering Tech Lead on vMetal at vCluster Labs, you arent just running servers; you are the person who turns a rack of bare metal into a programmable platform. In this role, you will lead the engineering work behind vMetal, the systems that discover, provision, configure, and manage physical hardware so our customers can spin up tenant clusters on top of it. You will sit at the rare intersection of outofband server management and modern Go services, and you will set the technical bar as we grow the team. You will report to the VP of Engineering while we build out the team around you. Role Responsibilities vMetal Platform Leadership: Own the technical direction of vMetal. You will lead architecture decisions, drive the roadmap for bare metal provisioning and lifecycle management, and set the standard for code review and design quality on the team. Bare Metal Programmability: Build the Go services that turn raw hardware into APIs our customers can consume. You will design and ship the systems that drive Redfish, IPMI, and PXE workflows in production, not glue scripts, real services with clean interfaces and solid tests. Hardware Lifecycle Automation: Own how servers get discovered, inventoried, provisioned, configured, and reclaimed. You will eliminate manual intervention from the day2 path and design for hardware that fails in surprising ways. CrossGenerational Architecture: Translate between traditional outofband server management and modern Kubernetesnative patterns. You will decide where the abstractions live and how vMetal exposes hardware to tenant clusters cleanly. Technical Mentorship & Hiring: Help grow the vMetal team. You will set the technical bar in interviews, partner with Fabian and Joseph on the loop, and mentor engineers as they ramp on bare metalspecific concepts. CustomerDriven Reliability: Partner with customer engineering and the broader platform team to debug, harden, and ship against real production workloads. You will be oncall for the systems you build and you will treat reliability as a firstclass deliverable. Qualifications Go Fluency: You write production Go for a living. You can design clean services, APIs, and libraries, not just script around someone elses code. Bare Metal Operations Depth: You have shipped systems that drive servers via Redfish and IPMI in production, and you understand PXE boot endtoend. You have debugged what happens when a BMC lies to you. BareMetalasaService Background: You have built or operated baremetalasaservice offerings, an AI Cloud, or a hyperscaler bare metal team where infrastructure was the product. Bridging Generations: You hold both server management and modern API design in your head and can design between them. You are comfortable in IPMI, iDRAC, and ILO consoles, and equally comfortable shipping a Go controller. Technical Leadership: You have led engineers technically, through architecture decisions, code review, and handson mentorship, even if you have not formally managed people. You want to be the technical anchor of a team. Operators Instinct: You think about failure modes, telemetry, and recoverability before you ship. You have been oncall for the systems you have built and you treat that as a feature, not a tax. Bonus Points Kubernetes Fluency: Comfort with Kubernetes internals, controllers, or operators enough to design how bare metal hosts integrate cleanly with tenant clusters. AI Cloud / Hyperscaler Time: Production experience inside an AI Cloud, hyperscaler, or large platform team where bare metal scale was nonnegotiable. Open Source Contributions: Meaningful contributions to projects in the bare metal, provisioning, or Kubernetes ecosystem, e.g., Tinkerbell, Metal3, Cluster API, Ironic. Career Pathing: Interest in eventually growing into an Engineering Manager or Architect path as the team scales. About VCluster Labs We are a venturebacked tech startup and the company pioneering Kubernetes virtualization for the AI era. We raised +$30M from toptier VCs such as Khosla Ventures (first investor in OpenAI, GitLab, Stripe, Doordash) and are in a hypergrowth phase looking for motivated people to complement our team. Our headquarters are in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower), but our team is distributed around the globe and we have a remotefirst work culture. We are the leading platform for operating GPU infrastructure, enabling AI Cloud providers to deliver a hyperscalerlike experience to their customers and AI factories that need to build that same experience for their internal teams. Our platform delivers the full operational stack operators need to run their GPU data centers managed Kubernetes, fast isolated tenant provisioning, and automated node provisioning and lifecycle management enabling them to accelerate time to value, reduce operational burden, and maximize the ROI of every GPU. We''re the company behind vCluster, an opensource technology for virtualizing Kubernetes (10k+ GitHub stars, 40M+ virtual clusters created since 2021). Open source is part of our DNA. At KubeCon North America 2025, we launched our Infrastructure Tenancy Platform for AI a Kubernetesnative framework purposebuilt for running AI, ML, and GPUintensive workloads anywhere, with an NVIDIAvalidated reference architecture for DGX systems. Benefits Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive compensation package, including equity. PlatinumLevel Insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country). Flexible Working Schedule: You have a doctors appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We wont have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day. Workplace Flexibility: Were very flexible about where you work. We know things can change in life and were happy to adjust the work environment for you along the way. Compensation Range: $138K - $180K Culture & Values Make it Happen: We have a relentless bias for action and the grit to push through obstacles. We do whatever it takes to figure it out, put in the work, and ruthlessly prioritize the actions that drive measurable impact for the business. Own the Outcome: We understand that our responsibility doesnt end when a task is checked off; it ends when the value is delivered. We connect our daily individual actions to the broader success of the company and our customers. Create Wow: We measure success by the experience we generate, both inside and outside the company. For our customers, this means impressive speed and intuitive experiences. For our team, this means going the extra mile to support one another and to continuously drive each other to new heights. Open Source, Open Mind: We are actively contributing to and maintaining opensource projects. Internally, we foster meritocracy the strongest ideas win, no matter who or where they come from. Build Tomorrows Standards, Intentionally: We don''t just ship software; we define the stateoftheart of tomorrow. We are fearless in tearing down old approaches to build something better, but we are disciplined in how we do it because we know our users rely on our technology to run missioncritical infrastructure platforms. #J-18808-Ljbffr