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Director of Engineering, Compute Cloud

San Francisco, CA - US💼 Full-time💰 $285,000–$335,000🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the engineering team building foundational IaaS offerings and a carbon-reducing, AI-focused cloud platform for high-performance GPU compute products.

Role type

Director of Engineering (Cloud Compute)

Builds

Scalable and reliable cloud compute solutions, virtualization capabilities, and distributed systems for AI workloads.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / AI Compute / Data Center

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Engineering management, cloud computing architecture, hypervisors and virtualization, distributed systems, software development lifecycle, team scaling and hiring

Preferred skills

SLO/SLA management, Linux environments, deployment automation, open-source contributions to cloud infrastructure

Responsibilities

Define long-term roadmap and strategy for the cloud compute team, guide architecture decisions and design reviews, scale the engineering team and hire managers, drive hiring and retention strategies, stay current on cloud software trends

Seniority

Director, hands-on leadership

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