Engineering Tech Lead (vMetal)

As an Engineering Tech Lead on vMetal at vCluster Labs, you aren’t just running servers; you are the person who turns a rack of bare metal into a programmable platform. In this role, you will lead the engineering work behind vMetal, the systems that discover, provision, configure, and manage physical hardware so our customers can spin up tenant clusters on top of it. You will sit at the rare intersection of out-of-band server management and modern Go services, and you will set the technical bar as we grow the team. You will report to the VP of Engineering while we build out the team around you. As an Engineering Tech Lead, your role will include: vMetal Platform Leadership: Own the technical direction of vMetal. 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 surpr [... source excerpt omitted ...] 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. This role could be a fit for you if you bring: Go Fluency: You write production Go for [... source excerpt omitted ...] 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 controlle