Voltage Park is building an AI cloud infrastructure business from the ground up. As part of this effort, we’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to build, design and implement the Voltage Park platform and tooling for our customers. You’ll play a pivotal role in building the product, and as an early hire, you’ll also have outsize influence in defining the company’s culture and ensuring mission success.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the design and development of scalable, reliable, and secure cloud management software.

• Select core technologies and frameworks both for technical specs, and non-technical considerations such as release velocity and hiring

• Architect critical backend and frontend components

• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define technical requirements and deliver innovative solutions.

• Participate in architectural discussions, design reviews, and sprint planning sessions to contribute to product roadmap and strategy.

• Mentor engineers, providing guidance, feedback, and support to ensure project success.

• Drive the adoption of best practices, coding standards, and quality assurance processes within the engineering team.

• Conduct code reviews, performance optimizations, and troubleshooting to ensure the stability and performance of the product.

• Stay updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitive landscape to drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge.

• Work closely with SREs to automate deployment processes, monitor system performance, and improve overall efficiency.

Qualifications:

• Experience building complex web products from 0 to 1, architecture and software engineering 

• Expertise in languages such as Go, Rust, Python, C++ or Java.

• Experience with architecture and design of complex, highly available, fault-tolerant, distributed systems and applications.

• Excellent leadership and communication skills with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment as a mentor, technical leader, and coach

• Understanding of infrastructure design in a Unix/Linux environment

• Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices and common infrastructure tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible

• You’re comfortable with a high degree of autonomy, prioritize your work, and understand how it maps to the overall needs and goals of the company

• You’re knowledgeable in your domain but also enjoy wearing multiple hats and venturing outside of your comfort zone when the need arises

• Nice to have: Experience building cloud orchestration products with Kubernetes or similar

• Bonus: experience working with bare metal or hardware

Voltage Park is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic under federal, state, or local law. If you require an accommodation during the job application process, please notify your recruiter. 

Compensation Range: $180K - $225K