Platform Team Lead - Remote

Overview At Zyte, we eat data for breakfast and you can eat your breakfast anywhere and work for Zyte. Founded in 2010, we are a globally distributed team of over 250 Zytans working from over 28 countries who are on a mission to enable our customers to extract the data they need to continue to innovate and grow their businesses. We believe that all businesses deserve a smooth pathway to data. Zyte is seeking an experienced Team Lead to manage our Core & MLOps Squad, responsible for building the bedrock infrastructure that powers Zyte at scale. This hands-on technical leadership role requires expertise across MLOps, systems programming, and orchestration to lead a cross-functional team in designing and maintaining the scalable foundation that enables all Zyte teams to build and run their services with confidence. For more than a decade, Zyte has led the way in building powerful, easy-to-use tools to collect, format, and deliver web data, quickly, dependably, and at scale. Today, the, 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. * Own container orchestration (Kubernetes/Knative), GPU provisioning & autoscaling, environment & secret management. * Develop operators, sidecars, and internal SDKs/libraries (Go/Rust/Python/Java) that enforce the golden path contract. * Maintain model platform responsibilities: registry, experiment tracking, training orchestration, evaluation framework, serving infra, model monitoring. * Establish observability

data we extract helps thousands of organizations make smarter business decisions, secure competitive advantage, and drive sustainable growth. Today, over 3,000 companies and 1 million developers rely on our tools and services to get the data they need from the web. Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Remote-friendly company with multiple remote options. Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Zyte by 2x. Get notified about new Team Lead jobs in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Responsibilities * 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, pipelines: logging/metrics/tracing. * Manage billing pipeline: metering, events, and cost tracking abstractions. * Develop the Golden Path: Java, Python, ML templates, CI/CD blueprints, docs, and scaffold CLI. * Improve reliability and security: SRE practices, cost governance, and supply-chain security (SBOM, image signing). Qualifications Required * 5+ years experience building distributed systems; 3+ years in MLOps/ML platform engineering (or equivalent impact). * Knowledge of Linux/OS internals, networking, concurrency, and performance profiling. * Deep understanding of Kubernetes (bonus: Mesos). * Proficiency developing high-performance services in Java, Rust, Go or C++ with strong Python skills (bonus: vert.x and Netty). * Experience with GPU infrastructure (scheduling, containerization, optimization). * Track record of designing and operating model platforms in production. * Demonstrated success leading technical teams and implementing organization-wide platform solutions. Preferred * Streaming & workflows: Kafka plus Argo/Temporal/Airflow or equivalents. * eBPF-based observability, perf tooling, or io_uring experience. * Cost optimization for ML/AI; multi-tenant quotas and fairness. * Hands-on experience authoring Golden Paths (service chassis/templates, CI/CD blueprints, CLI scaffolds). * SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, incident management). 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr