Lead Engineer - Compute

Lead Engineer - Compute role at Datum to build and run network-optimized compute platform.

• •To help 1k clouds thrive in the AI era, Datum’s infrastructure is highly connected, distributed, and open.
• •We are a cloud ourselves, but a specialized, network-focused on-ramp to the Datum ecosystem.
• •Key Responsibilities Build and run the network-optimized Datum compute platform Obsess with the customer experience, foundational security and performance of the service Drive excellence in infrastructure engineering, across software development and platform operations Partner with the infra and network teams to integrate compute seamlessly into the Datum experience and own the long-term health of our infrastructure Leverage vendor relationships, primarily open source, to extend our reach and velocity Requirements Compute: Significant production experience building and running scaled, containerized VMs or microkernels for real users in multi-tenant environments Kubernetes: Production experience building with Kubernetes and can work inside it with accuracy and speed Data plane: Experience with CNIs, eBPF, VPP, DPDK, or other software-first packet and routing infra Ecosystem and APIs: You regularly use public and alt clouds, as well as service providers, and have strong opinions about the experience Infrastructure: You’re an operator at heart.
• •You don’t tolerate manual deployments or slow builds.
• •No problem is off the table, and you can implement the right glue no matter the language