Core & ML Ops Team Lead - Remote

Zyte is seeking an experienced Team Lead to manage our Core & MLOps Squad, responsible for designing and maintaining the scalable foundation that enables all Zyte teams to build and run their services with confidence.

Requirements

• Design and evolve the core platform (Kubernetes, Mesos, GPU scheduling/autoscaling, distributed compute).
• Own the model platform: registry, experiment tracking, training orchestration, evaluation, serving, and monitoring.
• Build the Golden Path: reference repos, a scaffold CLI, opinionated CI/CD pipelines, runtime contracts (health/metrics/tracing/SLOs), high-performance clients, circuit breakers and other production‐ready defaults.
• Operate a secure, multi‐tenant model registry and training platform with standardized experiment/evaluation harnesses.
• Provide turnkey serving patterns (online + batch), drift/quality monitoring, and rollback playbooks.
• Integrate public/open‐source AI capabilities as managed platform services with cost and data‐governance guardrails.
• Run the squad: roadmap/prioritization, delivery, mentoring, and high engineering standards.
• Partner with product engineering (Zyte API, Scrapy Cloud), Prod Ops, and Security on adoption and rollout plans.
• Mentor the team and foster a platform-thinking mindset.
• Ownership Areas: container orchestration (Kubernetes/Knative), GPU provisioning & autoscaling, environment & secret management, operators, sidecars, and internal SDKs/libraries, model platform, observability, billing pipeline, golden path, reliability enablement, cost governance, supply‐chain security.

Benefits

• We love fostering and nourishing new ideas and bringing them to market
• Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team.
• Have the freedom and flexibility to work from where you do your best work, as we are a completely remote company.
• Get the chance to work with cutting-edge open-source technologies and tools.