Engineering Tech Lead – vMetal

Loft Labs

Engineering Tech Lead leading vMetal infrastructure and Go services at vCluster Labs for bare-metal operations. Driving technical direction, mentorship, and customer reliability for seamless operation.

Posted 4/27/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $138,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

vMetal Platform Leadership: Own the technical direction of vMetal in North America. You will lead architecture decisions, drive the roadmap for bare metal provisioning and lifecycle management, and set the standard for code review and design quality on the team.
Bare Metal Programmability: Build the Go services that turn raw hardware into APIs our customers can consume. You will design and ship the systems that drive Redfish, IPMI, and PXE workflows in production, not glue scripts, real services with clean interfaces and solid tests.
Hardware Lifecycle Automation: Own how servers get discovered, inventoried, provisioned, configured, and reclaimed. You will eliminate manual intervention from the day-2 path and design for hardware that fails in surprising ways.
Cross-Generational Architecture: Translate between traditional out-of-band server management and modern Kubernetes-native patterns. You will decide where the abstractions live and how vMetal exposes hardware to tenant clusters cleanly.
Technical Mentorship & Hiring: Help grow the vMetal team. You will set the technical bar in interviews, partner with Fabian and Joseph on the loop, and mentor engineers as they ramp on bare metal-specific concepts.
Customer-Driven Reliability: Partner with customer engineering and the broader platform team to debug, harden, and ship against real production workloads. You will be on-call for the systems you build and you will treat reliability as a first-class deliverable.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Go Fluency: You write production Go for a living. You can design clean services, APIs, and libraries, not just script around someone else’s code.
Bare Metal Operations Depth: You have shipped systems that drive servers via Redfish and IPMI in production, and you understand PXE boot end-to-end. You have debugged what happens when a BMC lies to you.
Bare-Metal-as-a-Service Background: You have built or operated bare-metal-as-a-service offerings, an AI Cloud, or a hyperscaler bare metal team where infrastructure was the product.
Bridging Generations: You hold both server management and modern API design in your head and can design between them. You are comfortable in IPMI, iDRAC, and ILO consoles, and equally comfortable shipping a Go controller.
Technical Leadership: You have led engineers technically, through architecture decisions, code review, and hands-on mentorship, even if you have not formally managed people. You want to be the technical anchor of a team.
Operator’s Instinct: You think about failure modes, telemetry, and recoverability before you ship. You have been on-call for the systems you have built and you treat that as a feature, not a tax.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive compensation package, including equity.
Platinum-Level Insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country).
Flexible Working Schedule: You have a doctor’s appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We won’t have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.
Workplace Flexibility: We’re very flexible about where you work. We know things can change in life and we’re happy to adjust the work environment for you along the way.

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoAPI designbare metal provisioninglifecycle managementRedfishIPMIPXEhardware automationdebuggingtelemetry

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentorshipcustomer-driven reliabilityproblem-solvingcommunication