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Parasail delivers it. We’re building an enterprise-grade inference cloud for open-weight models where customers pay for the tokens they use, and we handle everything required to serve them.\nBehind one OpenAI-compatible API, we pool GPU capacity from providers around the world and continuously optimize where and how workloads run. That means turning a changing mix of hardware, networks, and infrastructure into a service customers can trust.\nWe’ve raised a $32 million Series A, and we’re scaling beyond trillions of tokens a day. You’ll have the ownership and reach to shape how we get there.\nThe Role\nWe’re hiring an Engineering Site Lead to build and lead Parasail’s engineering presence in Europe. You’ll recruit a strong team, establish how it works, and take ownership of critical infrastructure behind our global inference cloud.\nThis is a hands-on engineering leadership role. You’ll help set technical direction, contribute to architecture and implementation, and develop engineers who can own complex systems in production. Your initial focus will be infrastructure and reliability: making a changing fleet of GPUs, providers, and networks operate as one dependable service.\nYou’ll work directly with engineering leadership and infrastructure, platform, and inference engineers across regions. You’ll give the European team clear ownership, connect its work to company priorities, and make collaboration across time zones effective.\nWhat You’ll Do\nBuild the European engineering team. Recruit, hire, and develop engineers with complementary strengths in infrastructure, distributed systems, and production reliability.\n\nSet direction and deliver. Translate company priorities into a focused roadmap, make sound technical tradeoffs, and help the team carry work from design through production.\n\nStay close to the engineering. Contribute to architecture, review designs and code, and work directly on the most important technical problems.\n\nScale a global GPU fleet. Lead improvements to the Kubernetes infrastructure behind provisioning, networking, storage, and deployment across providers and regions.\n\nMake reliability a team responsibility. Build better isolation, failover, observability, and recovery. Establish sustainable incident response and turn production lessons into stronger systems.\n\nBuild software that runs infrastructure. Help the team automate capacity expansion, deployments, and maintenance, reducing manual work and making changes safer.\n\nConnect teams across regions. Establish clear ownership, useful documentation, and effective handoffs so teams can make progress across time zones.\n\nShape the engineering culture. 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