• Design and implement distributed scheduling and workflow systems • Improve job prioritization, resource allocation, and orchestration across hybrid environments • Build scalable, reliable platform services and storage abstractions • Lead complex projects from design through production delivery • Improve system reliability, observability, and operational performance • Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the team • Lead complex projects from start to finish, which includes gathering project requirements, translating them into a rational software design, reasoning effectively about supporting or dependent technologies, and communicating effectively with collaborators and teammates • Provide technical guidance to engineering and research staff • Mentor and grow individual contributors to continuously up-level the team

• Lead a platform engineering team: technical direction, design reviews, code review, and day-to-day delivery. • Set the technical direction for your team’s area of the stack. • Represent platform engineering in roadmap planning: translate product requirements into scoped, sequenced technical work. • Work closely with the bring-up team to surface operational pain points. • Collaborate with the security engineering team to integrate security guidance at the platform layer. • Coordinate with the other platform engineering leads on shared architecture, joint initiatives and cross-team delivery. • Own reliability, observability, security, and interface and versioning standards for the services your team ships. • Stay hands-on: take on complex or high-risk engineering work directly alongside the team. • Run post-mortems and close structural gaps after incidents. • Manage the team: 1:1s, performance conversations, hiring interviews and onboarding.

• Design and implement Kubernetes operators and controllers that manage the lifecycle of compute, storage, and networking resources • Work closely with the product team to understand roadmap requirements and implement the platform capabilities that support them • Collaborate with the bring-up team to identify operational pain points and turn them into scalable platform features • Improve and extend the northbound API layer — the interface between user-facing services and the underlying infrastructure platform • Build and extend confidential computing capabilities across the platform stack — from secure bare metal and confidential VMs to Confidential Containers (CoCo) • Integrate security guidance from the security engineering team into platform-level controls and remediate security findings at the platform layer • Build platform capabilities around networking: reliability, performance, and observability of the overlay and underlay network stack • Contribute to storage platform improvements: provisioning workflows, attachment reliability, performance tuning, and failure handling • Own observability as a platform concern — instrument services, define meaningful metrics, and build tooling that gives the team visibility into platform health • Participate in code review, technical design discussions, and cross-team collaboration in an Agile (Kanban or Scrum) environment

• Own the strategy for Volta’s platform software - the IaaS and bare-metal management stacks, the operational and analytics tooling on the data centre layer, and the build-versus-buy calls as the business scales. • Translate the product roadmap owned by the CPO into a concrete platform engineering roadmap, in strategic alignment with the CTO, and own execution against it. • Make the architectural calls that keep the platform coherent as scope and headcount grow. • Grow the platform engineering organisation from its current size toward 50-plus engineers across the US and EU, deliberately and without lowering the hiring bar. • Build the management and technical-lead layer beneath you, including hiring the Director, Platform Engineering, EMEA as your deputy. • Define team structure, ownership boundaries and the engineering practices that keep a fast-growing, distributed organisation shipping. • Lead architecture and design reviews, drive the hard technical debates, and own the boundary between the platform software and the hardware layers beneath it. • Partner with the CPO and product organisation on platform direction, without that partnership running through a reporting line. • Keep tight, well-defined boundaries with Infrastructure Engineering, Network Engineering and the CDO’s organisation, and embed security with Cyber Security Engineering across the SDLC. • Represent the platform in front of customers and at the executive level inside and outside Volta.