Technical Lead, Cloud

About this role

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a Technical Lead, Cloud to own the technical execution of this new product. This is a clean-slate build, you will take us from zero to a production-grade cloud running on bare metal and iterating rapidly toward a full AI-era cloud platform.
• This is a small but ambitious team with minimal hierarchy and high autonomy. You are the technical leader of this team i.e. the person who translates vision into architecture, infrastructure and shipped product. The VP Strategy (Ville Lehto) acts as the overall leader of this initiative, setting the strategic direction and owns the business outcomes. Together, you form the leadership pair that makes this thing real.
• Technical Architecture & Decision-MakingOwn the end-to-end technical architecture for the cloud. From the management plane to the developer and agent-facing experience layer
• Make the critical build/buy/partner decisions for different layers of the stack (like object storage, inference, auth) and align trade-offs with VP Strategy for bets that carry strategic or financial weight
• Design for the future from day one: ensure the architecture supports the bold long term vision and strategy that you are expected contribute to
• Execution & DeliveryBuild a high-performance, "no-ego" team of exceptional engineers and product builders
• Lead the engineering team (backend engineers, frontend, design, architect) with a relentless bias for shipping while contributing code yourself
• Own the roadmap and delivery milestones
• Operate with disciplined scoping and ruthless prioritisation, launch with what matters, pro

About Aiven

At Aiven, our vision is to help developers and builders bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity by providing a data platform that makes open-source infrastructure easily accessible to everyone. We are now embarking on our most ambitious strategic bet: building a new cloud offering for the agentic era, a ground-up effort built on open-source principles.