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Head of Compute Engineering

Impossible Cloud is a European cloud storage provider offering secure, scalable, and cost-effective data storage solutions based on web3 technology and a decentralized infrastructure.

Impossible Cloud

Employee count: 51-200

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About Us

We are an early-stage neocloud purpose-built for GPU and AI workloads. Our customers are AI researchers, ML platform teams, and fast-growing AI startups who need flexible, high-performance GPU infrastructure without the complexity of hyperscalers. As we believe the future of AI will be defined by data locality, we are building a GPU compute cloud on top of our established industry-leading performance S3 storage cloud using a distributed network of colocation datacenters. We are looking for a lead Compute Engineer who can help us mature our compute products. We are a small, highly technical team looking to add deep GPU compute experience.

The Role

You will work with a small but growing team of engineers, roll up your sleeves on architecture and code, and own both the development as well as the day-to-day health of our compute infrastructure. This is the right role for a senior engineer who is ready to step fully into engineering leadership without losing their technical edge.

What You’ll Do

  • Contribute directly to architecture and code, particularly on GPU provisioning, orchestration, and the customer control plane
  • Lead a team of engineers across platform infrastructure, backend services, and internal tooling
  • Own the engineering delivery process: planning, prioritisation, and execution in close collaboration with the founding team
  • Implement and maintain observability, alerting, and on-call processes to meet customer SLAs
  • Hire and onboard engineers as the team grows; act as a culture carrier for technical excellence
  • Work directly with early customers to understand their GPU workload requirements and feed these into the roadmap

What We’re Looking For

  • 7+ years of engineering experience, with at least 1‑2 years in a tech lead or engineering manager capacity within the GPU space.
  • Practical experience with GPU compute – CUDA environments, NVIDIA drivers, MIG/vGPU, or similar
  • Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) and infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform, Ansible)
  • Deep understanding of GPU cluster management and GPU compute layers (bare‑metal provisioning, k8s, inference software, …)
  • Startup mindset: you move fast, take ownership, and are energised rather than overwhelmed by ambiguity
  • Bonus:
    • Experience in hyperscalers or Neocloud infrastructure, or data centre deployments
    • Deep knowledge of job schedulers (Slurm, LSF, Ray), networking (InfiniBand/RoCE), large‑scale storage systems (VAST, Weka, DAOS, Ceph, AWS S3, Lustre, GPFS), GPU inference and fine‑tuning customer workloads (vLLM, LanceDB …)

Why Join

  • Rare opportunity to be the technical lead at a company at the centre of the AI infrastructure boom
  • Hands‑on role with real technical depth – this is not a purely managerial position
  • Attractive equity for an early employee in a high‑growth space
  • Work directly with founders and have a real voice in product and company direction

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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At Impossible Cloud, our culture is built upon the spirit of innovation and unwavering determination. We firmly believe that every challenge presents an opportunity for growth and that with dedication, any goal is achievable. Our mission is to empower our customers to transcend conventional boundaries and realize the 'impossible' through our state-of-the-art cloud solutions. We are driven by the conviction that the centralized model, which initially spurred the widespread adoption of cloud services, is no longer sustainable for the future. The inherent limitations within existing cloud infrastructures stifle the technological advancements necessary to reduce costs while simultaneously enhancing performance, resource utilization, resilience, and security.

Impossible Cloud's decentralized architecture, rooted in web3 technology and supported by a global network of enterprise-grade data centers, delivers industry-leading performance and minimal latency. Our core offering, Impossible Cloud Storage, is meticulously designed for organizations that demand high-performance, secure storage solutions for big data, backups, and archives, all at a significantly lower cost compared to hyperscalers. We are committed to providing a cloud platform that is not only faster and more cost-effective but also more secure, leveraging the foundational benefits of web3. This includes heightened speed, superior cost-efficiency, and robust security, all accessible without the complexities of token or cryptocurrency transactions. Our platform boasts virtually limitless storage capacity, engineered for 100% durability and aspiring to an industry-leading availability of 99.95%. By joining us on our journey, you become part of a movement to redefine what's possible in the cloud, making the impossible a tangible reality for businesses worldwide.

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Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Prevents unauthorized access to data.

Object Lock

Creates immutable backups, protecting against ransomware.

Pay-per-Use Plans

Flexible scalability and monthly consumption-based billing.

Comprehensive Encryption

Data is encrypted in transit, at rest, and on the server side.

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