Platform Engineering Lead (AI)

Location: London, UK; hybrid work arrangement.

Salary: £140,000–£195,000 per year, plus equity and discretionary bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company building large-scale GPU compute infrastructure, Kubernetes-native platforms, virtual machines, storage, and networking for AI workloads.

What you will do

• Lead a platform engineering capability team through technical direction, design reviews, code reviews, delivery oversight, and people management.
• Design and build platform layers, control-plane services, APIs, and infrastructure features as product requirements evolve.
• Represent platform engineering in roadmap planning by scoping technical work, sequencing delivery, and communicating trade-offs.
• Partner with bring-up teams to turn operational pain points into scalable platform features.
• Coordinate shared architecture and cross-team delivery with other platform engineering leads and security engineering.
• Own reliability, observability, security, interface standards, versioning practices, incident post-mortems, hiring, onboarding, and team development.

Requirements

• 5+ years of cloud platform or infrastructure engineering experience, including at least 2 years leading an engineering team.
• Strong backend or systems programming experience in a production environment; working languages include Python, Go, and Rust.
• Deep production Kubernetes experience covering cluster operations, CNI networking, scheduling, and workload management.
• Experience with GPU infrastructure, including provisioning, resource allocation, and exposing capacity through a platform or API layer.
• Strong networking fundamentals covering L2/L3, VLANs, overlay networks, and multi-tenant isolation.
• Experience designing and operating production-grade control-plane services and APIs, plus proven people management and technical communication skills.

Nice to have

• AI-assisted development and agent-assisted engineering workflows.
• Confidential computing technologies such as TEEs, AMD SEV, Intel TDX, or Confidential Containers.
• SaaS or PaaS layers built on IaaS platforms, serverless infrastructure, or inference serving.
• RDMA, InfiniBand, or RoCE networking in GPU or HPC clusters.
• Experience working across time zones with distributed counterparts.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity in hirify.global and compensation based on the work performed rather than previous salary.
• Retirement or pension contributions.
• Health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits.
• Generous annual vacation allowance.
• Supportive, trusted, growth-oriented work environment with attention to work-life balance.