Loft Labs

People Operations

• Automation & Systems Mastery: Own and optimize our HRIS, Rippling, to automate the manual heavy lifting of HR. You will focus on building AI automation and sophisticated workflows to ensure our people processes are as state-of-the-art as our software.
• Lifecycle Management: Lead the end-to-end processing of onboarding and offboarding, ensuring every team member has a “Wow” experience from day one to their last.
• Benefits & Wellness: Partner with our providers (United Healthcare, Ameritas, etc.) to administer our comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, ensuring our team is supported through every life stage.
• Performance & Growth: Administer performance review cycles and employee engagement surveys. You will use data to track progress, inform decision-making, and create continuous feedback.
• Disciplined Execution: Manage diverse People Ops tasks—from compliance and record-keeping to global offsite logistics—with a value over tasks mentality.

People Operations Partner

Solutions Engineer

• Strategic Technical Leadership: Lead technical sales engagements and own the "Technical Win." Partner with Account Executives to craft tailored solutions that address customer needs and challenges in Kubernetes environment.
• POC Execution: Manage the technical lifecycle from discovery to proof of concept (POC) implementation. You will be responsible for demonstrating Loft Labs' products (vCluster Pro, DevPod Pro) and addressing customer queries.
• Value Engineering: Move beyond feature/function selling; articulate a clear "Business Value Assessment" (BVA) that ties our technical capabilities to the customer's top-line revenue or bottom-line efficiency.
• Multi-Threaded Engagement: Navigate complex organizations to build consensus across technical champions (Dev/Ops/Security practitioners) and executive economic buyers (CTO, CIO, CISO).
• Lifecycle Continuity: Assist in transitioning newly acquired accounts to the Customer Success team to ensure a smooth handover. You will act as a best practice and technical advisor throughout the customer journey.
• Methodical Qualification: Understand and qualify opportunities partnering with Account Executives following the **MEDDPICC** or **Command of the Message** frameworks.

Senior Solutions Engineer

Application Engineer

• Core Product Security: Perform deep-dive security reviews of our core Go-based applications and Kubernetes controllers, as well as the frontend user interface. With a targeted focus on avoiding privilege escalation within our multi-tenant architecture.
• Threat Modeling: Lead the threat modeling process for new features, proactively identifying risks associated with shared GPU resources and multi-cloud environments.
• Automated Security: "Shift left" by continuing to integrate security checks into our CI and developer workflows. Optimizing these checks for speed, ensuring security never becomes a bottleneck for engineering velocity. Separately, you will manage automated and manual scanning of our entire product stack.
• Vulnerability Management: Own the lifecycle of security vulnerabilities from discovery to remediation. You will triage both external and internal reports, drive the resolution of critical issues across the engineering organization, and communicate effectively across stakeholders.
• Feature Development: Everyone at the organization contributes to both the ideas and development of new features. Many of which are directly related to security topics such as container breakouts and isolation, pushing the envelope of what’s possible in constrained environments.
• Developer training: Make complex topics easier to understand for all engineers, including new attack vectors and secure coding concepts.

Senior Application Security Engineer

Engineering Manager

• Technical Architecture & Strategy: Act as a technical authority for the team. You will drive architectural decisions in Go and Kubernetes, ensuring our solutions are scalable and resilient. You must be capable of holding your own in technical debates with Staff and Senior Engineers.
• Code Standards & Quality: Actively participate in design reviews and code reviews. You will set the bar for technical excellence, ensuring the team delivers clean, efficient, and maintainable code that solves hard engineering challenges (the kind you can’t find on ChatGPT).
• Team Leadership & Growth: Mentor and manage a team of Senior Software Engineers. You will prioritize "Value over tasks," acting as a "Supportive Elevator" who helps engineers navigate complex technical roadblocks rather than just reporting on them.
• Hiring Excellence: Partner with the People Team to build a world-class engineering organization. You will champion our "Structured and Replicable" interviewing practices to identify "High Agency" talent that meets our rigorous technical bar.
• Operational Rhythm: Build a measurable and predictable operating rhythm. You will own the delivery cadence, ensuring we balance technical debt reduction with the speed required to deliver intuitive experiences for our customers.

Backend Engineer

• Kubernetes Deep-Dive: Work intimately with Kubernetes internals to push the boundaries of container orchestration.
• Go Development: Write high-performance, resilient Go code to power the core logic of the vCluster platform.
• End-to-End Ownership: Take full ownership of your work. You are self-driven and capable of managing feature development from technical design to release without needing constant oversight.
• Open Source Innovation: Engage with the community and contribute to our open-source projects. You will help define the next generation of tenancy models, creating scalable solutions for isolation and resource sharing beyond simple namespaces.
• Technical Problem Solving: Tackle hard engineering challenges where the solution isn't always on ChatGPT, requiring a deep understanding of systems architecture.

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

• Strategic Technical Leadership: Lead technical sales engagements and own the "Technical Win." Partner with Account Executives to craft tailored solutions that address customer needs and challenges in Kubernetes environment.
• POC Execution: Manage the technical lifecycle from discovery to proof of concept (POC) implementation. You will be responsible for demonstrating Loft Labs' products (vCluster Pro, DevPod Pro) and addressing customer queries.
• Value Engineering: Move beyond feature/function selling; articulate a clear "Business Value Assessment" (BVA) that ties our technical capabilities to the customer's top-line revenue or bottom-line efficiency.
• Multi-Threaded Engagement: Navigate complex organizations to build consensus across technical champions (Dev/Ops/Security practitioners) and executive economic buyers (CTO, CIO, CISO).
• Lifecycle Continuity: Assist in transitioning newly acquired accounts to the Customer Success team to ensure a smooth handover. You will act as a best practice and technical advisor throughout the customer journey.
• Methodical Qualification: Understand and qualify opportunities partnering with Account Executives following the MEDDPICC or Command of the Message frameworks.

Platform Engineer

• Infrastructure Management: Own and improve our multi-cloud infrastructure spread across AWS, GCP, and Digital Ocean. You will manage Kubernetes clusters, handle patching, manage access, and enhance to ensure our tooling has robust alerts and metrics.
• CI/CD Optimization: Drive the improvement of GitHub CI pipelines. You will be responsible for creating secure, repeatable testing environments and automating pipeline updates to streamline the developer experience.
• Internal Services Architecture: Architect and host infrastructure for engineering development, including internal services and vCluster-specific platforms (e.g., loft.rocks, vCluster Cloud). You will empower engineers to build pipelines securely through education and tooling.
• Customer Zero: Act as the first and most critical user of our products. You will push vCluster features to their limits to create useful internal tools, discovering bugs and providing feedback to Engineering to shape the future of our software.
• Terraform Automation: Focus on automating updates and managing infrastructure as code using Terraform Spacelift. You will give the team the ability to create infrastructure on demand, ensuring scalability and consistency.
• Execution: Manage a variety of Kanban tasks via Linear, ranging from improving observability to handling GitHub policy requests, release engineering, and access management.

Senior Platform Engineer

Full-stack Engineer

• Rapid Prototyping & Innovation: Act as a specialized engineer who identifies interesting product opportunities, researches solutions, and quickly builds prototypes to validate if they work. You will report back on feasibility and guide the technical direction based on your findings.
• Strategic Technical Leadership: Take ownership of responsibilities beyond coding, including managing complex technical projects, writing technical abstracts, and helping the wider engineering team navigate difficult challenges.
• Direct Collaboration with Leadership: Work directly with the CTO and operate outside the traditional engineering organization boundaries to solve high-level problems and ideate on new product capabilities.
• System Mastery & Evolution: Develop a deep understanding of our existing system while maintaining the agility to learn new things quickly. You will be responsible for integrating new technologies into our stack efficiently.
• Customer & External Engagement: While primarily technical, this role includes customer-facing elements. You will occasionally engage with users to understand their deep technical needs and translate those into engineering solutions.

Staff Software Engineer

Account Executive

• Own a dedicated patch of Enterprise accounts. Build a comprehensive territory plan to uncover new opportunities and expand existing footprints.
• Manage the entire sales lifecycle from prospecting and discovery to negotiation and close. You are a "Hunter" who enjoys the thrill of the chase but executes with the precision of a consultant.
• Navigate complex organizations to build consensus across technical champions (Dev/Ops/Security practitioners) and executive economic buyers (CTO, CIO, CISO, CFO).
• Move beyond feature/function selling. articulate a clear "Business Value Assessment" (BVA) that ties our technical capabilities to the customer's top-line revenue or bottom-line efficiency.
• Maintain hygiene in Salesforce/CRM. Utilize MEDDPICC or Command of the Message methodologies to provide accurate weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecasts.

APAC Enterprise Account Executive

• Strategic Territory Management: Own a dedicated patch of Enterprise accounts. Build a comprehensive territory plan to uncover new opportunities and expand existing footprints.
• Full-Cycle Execution: Manage the entire sales lifecycle from prospecting and discovery to negotiation and close. You are a "Hunter" who enjoys the thrill of the chase but executes with the precision of a consultant.
• Multi-Threaded Selling: Navigate complex organizations to build consensus across technical champions (Dev/Ops/Security practitioners) and executive economic buyers (CTO, CIO, CISO, CFO).
• Value Engineering: Move beyond feature/function selling. articulate a clear "Business Value Assessment" (BVA) that ties our technical capabilities to the customer's top-line revenue or bottom-line efficiency.
• Methodical Forecasting: Maintain hygiene in Salesforce/CRM. Utilize MEDDPICC or Command of the Message methodologies to provide accurate weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecasts.