Head of Compute Engineering

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3 Locations
Remote or Hybrid
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology
The Role
The Head of Compute Engineering will lead a team in developing GPU and AI workloads, managing infrastructure, and ensuring deliverables meet customer SLAs.
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Head of Compute EngineeringAbout Us

We are an early-stage neocloud purpose-built for GPU and AI workloads. Our customers are AI researchers, ML platform teams, and fast-growing AI startups who need flexible, high-performance GPU infrastructure without the complexity of hyperscalers. As we believe the future of AI will be defined by data locality, we are building a GPU compute cloud on top of our established industry-leading performance S3 storage cloud using a distributed network of colocation datacenters. We are looking for a lead Compute Engineer who can help us mature our compute products. We are a small, highly technical team looking to add deep GPU compute experience.

The Role

You will work with a small but growing team of engineers, roll up your sleeves on architecture and code, and own both the development as well as the day-to-day health of our compute infrastructure. This is the right role for a senior engineer who is ready to step fully into engineering leadership without losing their technical edge.

What You'll Do
  • Contribute directly to architecture and code, particularly on GPU provisioning, orchestration, and the customer control plane

  • Lead a team of engineers across platform infrastructure, backend services, and internal tooling

  • Own the engineering delivery process: planning, prioritisation, and execution in close collaboration with the founding team

  • Implement and maintain observability, alerting, and on-call processes to meet customer SLAs

  • Hire and onboard engineers as the team grows; act as a culture carrier for technical excellence

  • Work directly with early customers to understand their GPU workload requirements and feed these into the roadmap

What We're Looking For
  • 7+ years of engineering experience, with at least 1-2 years in a tech lead or engineering manager capacity within the GPU space. 

  • Practical experience with GPU compute - CUDA environments, NVIDIA drivers, MIG/vGPU, or similar

  • Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible)

  • Deep understanding of GPU cluster management and GPU compute layers (bare-metal provisioning, k8s, inference software, …)

  • Startup mindset: you move fast, take ownership, and are energised rather than overwhelmed by ambiguity

  • Bonus: 

    • Experience in  hyperscalers or Neocloud infrastructure, or data centre deployments 

    • Deep knowledge of  job schedulers (Slurm, LSF, Ray), networking  (InfiniBand/RoCE), large-scale storage systems (VAST, Weka, DAOS, Ceph, AWS S3, Lustre, GPFS), GPU inference and fine-tuning customer workloads (vLLM, LanceDB …)

Why Join
  • Rare opportunity to be the technical lead at a company at the centre of the AI infrastructure boom

  • Hands-on role with real technical depth - this is not a purely managerial position

  • Attractive equity for an early employee in a high-growth space

  • Work directly with founders and have a real voice in product and company direction

Location & Right to Work

This role is open to candidates based in Europe only. You must have the right to work in your country of residence - we are not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Top Skills

Ansible
Aws S3
Ceph
Cuda
Daos
Docker
Gpfs
Gpu
Infiniband
Kubernetes
Lsf
Lustre
Mig
Nvidia Drivers
Ray
Slurm
Terraform
Vast
Weka
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The Company
Hamburg
52 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Impossible Cloud is Europe's premier cloud storage solution. Our decentralized cloud architecture outperforms current cloud solutions with faster, cheaper, more secure cloud storage. Made in Germany, Impossible Cloud stores all data in top tier, GDPR-compliant data centers and integrates seamlessly with any data management or backup solution. Whether you’re looking for a high-performance, lower cost alternative to public cloud or a secure, scalable alternative to private cloud, Impossible Cloud offers industry-leading availability, durability, and security for a fraction of the cost. It's easy to switch with just a single line of code. Switch to Impossible Cloud today

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