Engineering Team Lead, Automation, Performance & Scale — k0rdent AI

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on engineering leader to own automation, non-functional verification, and performance & scale engineering for k0rdent AI — our multi-tenant control plane for enterprise GPU infrastructure. You will lead the team responsible for proving that k0rdent AI is fast, scalable, resilient, and ready to ship, and you will remain a senior individual contributor who writes code, designs test systems, and digs into failures yourself. This is not a traditional QA management role. Your focus is engineering: building the automation frameworks, load and scale harnesses, and CI quality gates that let our engineering teams across the US, Europe, and APAC ship daily with confidence. You will own k0rdent AI release acceptance — defining what "ready" means and making the go/no-go call with evidence — and you will raise the quality bar across development teams by bringing industry-standard practices into how they design, build, and test. As a member of the k0rdent AI engineering leadership, you will take an active role in product roadmap planning and estimation, making sure non-functional requirements are designed in from the start rather than discovered at the end. Main Responsibilities: Leadership & ownership Lead, hire, and grow the k0rdent AI automation and performance engineering team — set direction and priorities, run planning, coach engineers, and own delivery of the team's commitments. Own k0rdent AI acceptance verification: define release acceptance criteria and exit gates, coordinate verification across component teams, and drive evidence-based go/no-go decisions for each release, upgrade path, and hotfix. Drive industry-standard quality practices across development teams — shift-left testing, a healthy test pyramid, contract and integration testing, definition of done, quality gates in CI, and code review standards for test code. Take an active role in k0rdent AI roadmap planning and estimation: assess features for testability and non-functi

Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.

Perks & Benefits

• Official mentor support
• verified hiring timeline
• and career progression.