Senior Staff Platform Engineer

Title

Senior Staff Platform Engineer (Up to £200k + Equity) at VC-backed compute infrastructure startup

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 like Go, Rust, or C++ and experience mentoring high-performing engineering teams.