Description
Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. They are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment.
You will lead the mk8s Core team, one of three mk8s teams. The Core team owns the API, the core of the service control plane, cluster autoscaling, platform integrations, and running k8s add-ons.
As a team lead at Nebius, you will be hands-on. You will spend a significant portion of your time on IC work: writing and reviewing code, leading projects, and participating in on-call rotation, incident mitigation, and post-incident analysis. You will also manage 4–8 mid-to-senior engineers, provide context, coach, and give regular feedback.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead by example and set the quality bar high.
- Manage a team of 4-8 mid-to-senior engineers.
- Maintain the technical vision for your area of responsibility.
- Collaborate with the Product Manager and Service Owner to shape product vision and plans.
Examples of Outcomes:
- Optimize the service control plane to create and manage 20K GPU nodes in a single Kubernetes cluster.
- Integrate cluster autoscaling approaches to improve resource utilization and support seamless auto-upgrades.
- Provide a Kubernetes-native way to use local disks to reduce disk I/O bottlenecks for AI training and inference.
- Deliver managed Layer 7 load balancers to reduce operational overhead for customers.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering or management experience.
- Excellent knowledge of Golang.
- Expertise with multi-month technical projects, tech leading engineers, and owning multi-month technical projects.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with team management, Kubernetes administration, and developing Kubernetes controllers.
Benefits & Perks:
- Competitive compensation.
- Career growth and learning opportunities.
- Flexibility and ownership.
- Collaborative and innovative culture.
- Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects.
- International environment and talented teams.