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Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.\nAbout The Role\nVolta builds and operates large scale GPU compute infrastructure for frontier AI customers. The software that turns racks of GPUs into a usable platform is its own product.\nYou will lead Platform Engineering across EMEA and act as deputy to the VP, Platform Engineering, who is based in Palo Alto. You own the European teams and their delivery, and you partner with the VP closely enough that the two of you run one organization across two continents.\nThis is a building role. Volta already has platform engineers in Europe, today managed from the US, and bringing them into a local structure is your first priority before growing the region into several teams. It is a software leadership role, but not an abstracted one. Our platform sits directly on GPU hardware, fabric, and physical sites, and it only works if it stays coherent with them.\nWhat You Will Be Doing\nLead the EMEA platform engineering teams and own their delivery against the platform roadmap you set with the VP.\n\nBring the platform engineers already in Europe into the EMEA structure in a way that keeps continuity for both the people and the work.\n\nGrow the region across multiple capability teams, build the team lead layer beneath you, and own hiring in region without lowering the bar.\n\nAct as the VP's deputy: represent Platform Engineering in EMEA, step in when they are unavailable, and keep the two regions aligned so the platform stays coherent.\n\nStay hands-on enough to lead architecture and design reviews and to call the right answer when a technical debate needs one.\n\nOwn reliability and operational quality for what the region ships, including on-call practice, incident response, and closing structural gaps after incidents.\n\nOwn the boundary between the platform software and the hardware, fabric, and site layers beneath it, working with the infrastructure and project delivery teams whose work it depends on.\n\nWork with security engineering across the development lifecycle so security is built into the platform rather than added afterwards.\n\nBe credible in front of customers in region when the moment calls for it.\n\nWhat You Bring\nTrack record building and leading software engineering teams, ideally toward 20-plus people across more than one team.\n\nExperience taking over and reorganizing an existing team, including moving people into a new reporting structure and keeping them engaged through it.\n\nEngineering leadership where you set direction and own delivery, not pure people management. You are still credible in a design review.\n\nDemonstrable understanding of what sits under a cloud service: virtualization, storage, networking, multi-tenancy, and the bare metal beneath them. You do not need to have run an IaaS business, but you need to know how one works.\n\nEnough working knowledge of the hardware to reason about where software meets GPU, fabric, and storage reality.\n\nExperience taking software from an early stage through to production, not only greenfield prototypes.\n\nThe maturity to deputize for a senior leader across distance and time zones without needing to be managed.\n\nJudgment to work across organizational boundaries with peer engineering leaders, defining clean seams rather than fighting over them.\n\nBased in or willing to be on-site in London, with travel across a US and EU distributed organization.\n\nFluency with AI-assisted development and a view on scaling agent-assisted workflows across an organization.\n\nNice to Have (But Not Essential)\nDirect experience with an IaaS or cloud platform, built or operated at scale.\n\nBackground at a neocloud, hyperscaler, GPU cloud, or HPC environment where the software platform was the product.\n\nFamiliarity with our current stack: KVM and QEMU, Ceph and SPDK, BGP and VXLAN, Kubernetes operators, PXE and Flatcar provisioning, and Go, Python, and Rust. This is where the platform is today, not a constraint on where it goes.\n\nExperience in a multi-region engineering organization, or deputizing for a more senior leader.\n\nExperience integrating or leveling up an inherited or acquired engineering team.\n\nExposure to building higher-level services on top of an infrastructure platform.\n\nExperience leading teams under ISO 27001 or SOC 2 obligations.\nREQ-78\n\nWhat We Offer\nAt Volta, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted and able to grow. We're building a company where you can make an impact, keep a healthy balance between work and life, and build a career you're proud of. \nAs a global team, we do our best to provide great benefits wherever you're based. While some benefits vary by country due to local regulations, we believe looking after our people is simply the right thing to do.\nCompetitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary\n\nEquity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success\n\nRetirement/pension contributions\n\nComprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits\n\nGenerous number of vacation days each year\n\nAdditional Information\nBackground Checks\nAll offers of employment at Volta are conditional on the satisfactory completion of pre-employment screening, which includes confirmation of your right to work, verification of your employment history and a criminal record check, where this is permitted by local law. Screening is carried out by Zinc, an accredited third-party provider, after an offer is made and all information is handled confidentially and in accordance with applicable data protection law.\nEqual Opportunity\nVolta is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and make employment decisions based on skills, qualifications, experience and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.\nAccessibility\nVolta is committed to providing an accessible recruitment experience for all candidates. If you require accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please contact us at . We will work with you to identify reasonable accommodations that enable you to participate fully in the hiring process.\nCandidate Privacy Notice\nBy applying, you consent to the processing of your personal data for recruitment purposes in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the UK GDPR, EU GDPR and relevant US state privacy regulations. Your data will be shared only with those involved in the hiring process and will not be used for unrelated purposes. For details, see our Recruitment & Candidate Privacy Notice.\nNote to Recruitment Agencies\nVolta does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies. Any unsolicited submissions, including those sent directly to hiring managers or employees, will be treated as the property of Volta. 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