Director of Infrastructure Engineering
Runpod is an AI developer cloud providing GPU compute, serverless inference, Pods, and clusters for building, training, fine-tuning, deploying, and scaling AI workloads.
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About Runpod
Runpod Inc. operates a globally distributed GPU cloud platform for AI developers, offering on-demand GPU infrastructure and serverless services across the AI development lifecycle.
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About the Role
You will lead teams responsible for SRE, networking, and storage. You will establish reliability practices, oversee HPC and global networking, guide distributed-storage performance, develop engineering leaders, forecast capacity, and improve delivery, infrastructure reliability, and availability.
Requirements
- 7+ years leading software, infrastructure, SRE, or networking teams
- 8+ years building and operating distributed systems, bare-metal infrastructure, or cloud platforms
- Experience with InfiniBand or RoCE, spine-leaf architectures, and BGP
- Experience with distributed storage or parallel file systems
- Reliability engineering and infrastructure-as-code expertise
- Experience with Terraform and Ansible
- Experience with Kubernetes and observability stacks
- Experience leading distributed technical teams
- Successful completion of a background check
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering teams responsible for SRE, networking, and storage
- Establish SLA and SLO definitions, incident response, observability, and automated remediation
- Oversee global and HPC network design, scaling, and operation
- Direct distributed storage architecture and performance tuning
- Hire, mentor, and grow engineering managers and senior individual contributors
- Forecast capacity requirements and shape technical roadmaps
- Improve reliability and delivery metrics
- Provide architectural oversight for provisioning, virtualization, network fabrics, and storage clusters
- Coordinate with product delivery and platform teams
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Flexible PTO
- Remote-first work
- USD 1,200 home office and equipment stipend