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

Senior Staff Platform Engineer

Up to £200k + Equity

Company

VC-backed compute infrastructure startup

Location

London, UK

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.

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.

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.

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