Senior Staff Platform Engineer (Up to 200k + Equity) at Compute Index

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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Job Title: Senior Staff Platform Engineer

Salary: Up to 200k Equity

Company Description: VC-backed compute infrastructure startup

Job Description:
As a founding-level hire you will architect financial-grade infrastructure for the global GPU market. You will bridge the gap between high-performance compute and capital markets building systems for real-time pricing automated settlement and cross-cloud orchestration. This role offers the unique opportunity to define the technical foundation for a new asset class.

Location: London UK

Why this role is remarkable:

Lead the architectural design of a first-of-its-kind trading platform for GPU compute working directly with founders from elite quantitative and engineering backgrounds.
Join a well-funded startup backed by top-tier VCs at the intersection of AI infrastructure and sophisticated financial instruments.
High-impact founding role with significant equity and the mandate to build and lead a world-class platform engineering team from scratch.

What you will do:

Architect and build robust services for dynamic pricing on-demand billing and high-reliability cash settlement systems.
Design and implement complex inventory management logic and orchestration for GPU instances across multiple cloud providers.
Own the end-to-end security scalability and reliability of core infrastructure to meet financial-grade performance guarantees.

The ideal candidate:

8 years of software engineering experience with a deep background in distributed systems cloud infrastructure or high-scale billing rails.
Proven track record of building production-grade systems in fintech payments or low-latency trading environments.
Expert-level proficiency in backend languages such as Go Rust or C and experience mentoring high-performing engineering teams.

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