Team Leader - AI Datacenter Networking (Rust)

As the Team Leader, you will manage and mentor a team of software engineers developing advanced networking components and services in Rust and Python. Youll combine hands-on technical leadership with people management, setting technical direction, reviewing code, driving design discussions, and ensuring the teams delivery aligns with our companys architectural and product vision. This is a highly technical leadership role: you will contribute to design and architecture while cultivating best practices in modern systems programming, asynchronous networking, observability, and performance optimization.
Key Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers specializing in Rust and Python for AI datacenter networking.
Define technical roadmap, design architecture, and own the teams deliverables.
Lead implementation of networking and distributed-systems components.
Collaborate closely with architects, product management, QA, and platform teams to deliver features supporting large-scale AI network deployments.
Perform technical design reviews and deep-dive debugging; ensure code quality, maintainability, and observability.
Encourage a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
Manage planning, prioritization, and reporting; communicate progress and risks to leadership.
Recruit, onboard, and mentor engineers to expand the teams capabilities.