Lead/Manager Together Cloud Infrastructure

About the Role Together AI is building the AI Acceleration Cloud, an end-to-end platform for the full generative AI lifecycle, combining the fastest LLM inference engine with state-of-the-art AI cloud infrastructure. As a Lead/Manager, you will play a key role in building the Together cloud platform engineering team in the Netherlands. We are a highly available, global, blazing-fast cloud infrastructure that virtualizes cutting-edge ML hardware (GB200s/GB300s, BlueField DPUs) and enables state-of-the-art ML practitioners with self-serve AI cloud services, such as on-demand + managed Kubernetes and Slurm clusters. This platform serves both our internal SaaS products (inference, fine-tuning) and our external cloud customers, spanning dozens of data centers across the world. Some of what you’ll work on: Work on a distributed GPU scheduling system for the on-demand clusters product, Instant Clusters. Build out a global management plane for managing our data center compute, networking, and storage. Design and build new customer-facing cloud platform services, delivering killer enterprise AI cloud features. Hybrid working 2 days a week at our offices in Amsterdam Responsibilities Lead/Manage a team of 8 together cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Amsterdam, Identify, design, and develop foundational backend services that power Together’s commerce platform Analyze and improve the robustness and scalability of existing distributed systems, APIs, databases, and infrastructure Partner with product teams to understand functional requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs Write clear, well-tested, and maintainable software and IaC for both new and existing systems Conduct design and code reviews, create developer documentation, and develop testing strategies for robustness and fault tolerance Participate in an on-call rotation to address critical incidents when necessary Requirements Ideally 1-2 years of leading the Infrastructure team. Demonstrable background in acquiring talent and retaining talent. 5+ years of demonstrated experience in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems and API microservices Experience designing, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources Excellent communication skills – able to write clear design docs and work effectively with both technical and non-technical team members Demonstrated experience with building and operating high-performance and/or globally distributed microservice architectures across one or more cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) Strong systems knowledge across compute, networking, and storage, including concurrency, memory management, performant I/O, and scale Experience developing against and managing a relational database, such as PostgreSQL Expert-level programmer in one or more of programming language (Golang preferred) Proficiency in version control practices and integrating IaC with CI/CD pipelines. Experience with Kubernetes and containers preferred Experience building and operating data infrastructure (Kinesis, Airflow, Kafka, etc) a plus Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience About Together AI Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company. We believe open and transparent AI systems will drive innovation and create the best outcomes for society, and together we are on a mission to significantly lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models. We have contributed to leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI, and our team has been behind technological advancement such as FlashAttention, Hyena, FlexGen, and RedPajama. We invite you to join a passionate group of researchers in our journey in building the next generation AI infrastructure. Equal Opportunity Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is prou