Job Summary
We're hiring a hands-on Technical Lead to take our AI-driven data centre infrastructure platform from prototype to production. This isn't a maintenance role — you'll architect, build, deploy, and scale the backend, lead a small team of engineers, and stay hands-on in implementation yourself. You'll own critical infrastructure decisions across modern frameworks, cloud platforms, and languages, and help shape our technical strategy as we scale. Startup pace, high ownership, wearing multiple hats.
Responsibilities
- Own platform architecture and lead the transition from prototype to production-grade deployment
- Design and run cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and DevOps automation for reliable operations
- Build and maintain backend systems, APIs, orchestration services, and operational tooling
- Translate thermal, power, and closed-loop control requirements into platform architecture (no direct OT/industrial-systems engineering required)
- Support optimization and ML systems involving multi-objective decision-making
- Set the bar for security, uptime, observability, and incident response
- Give realistic estimates and flag risks or scope changes early, not after they've become a problem
- As we grow: mentor, weigh in on hiring, and help set technical standards
Skills
- 6+ years in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering, with real product experience (no formal "lead" title required if you're ready to act like one)
- Track record taking a product from MVP to production
- Strong hands-on cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP), plus CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and Docker/Kubernetes
- Solid backend/API development and experience running high-uptime production systems
- Security and infrastructure-hardening fluency
- Startup experience — comfortable operating independently with ambiguity
- Realistic scoping/estimation, and a habit of surfacing risk early
- Depth in at least one of: optimization/ML infrastructure, multi-objective decision systems, or telemetry/monitoring at scale
Nice to Have
- Background in AI infrastructure, data centers, energy systems, or industrial automation
- Real-time orchestration, distributed systems, or edge computing
- MILP solvers or operational AI/optimization frameworks
- Liquid cooling, thermal optimization, or power-aware infrastructure
- Battery management, power electronics, or energy dispatch systems
- Founding engineer / early-stage technical leadership experience
- SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar compliance framework familiarity
Pay: From $100,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Extended health care
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Vancouver, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person
