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title: 'Senior Data Center Operations Manager at Namespace'
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# Senior Data Center Operations Manager at Namespace

- **Company:** Namespace
- **Location:** Virginia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/namespace/cf527ca9-7385-47ed-905a-ee2527aa1313

## Job description

Join our mission We're proud to work with many incredible companies, accelerating their ability to build their products. We've spent years watching talented engineering teams lose momentum to the same frustrating bottleneck: waiting. Waiting for CI to finish. Waiting for builds to complete. Waiting for tests to run. After experiencing this pain firsthand at companies of every size, we set out to build the developer infrastructure platform we'd always wanted to use. Something that would seamlessly integrate with our workflows and the tools teams already love—but make everything dramatically faster and more cost-effective. Today, we're already accelerating hundreds of companies around the world, helping them ship features instead of waiting for infrastructure. We've built something that feels almost magical in its simplicity: change your runs-on line, mount your toolchain cache directory and suddenly your builds are 5x faster.

## About the role

Namespace's approach is low-friction, designed for immediate integration into existing developer toolchains, empowering teams to experience tangible results within just five minutes. With an end-to-end stack optimized for high performance—including compute, memory, storage, and networking—Namespace delivers capabilities and efficiencies unmatched by traditional cloud providers. We already run all our platforms - Linux, MacOS and Windows – on our own bare metal which allows us to optimize performance and reliability. And we are further expanding our footprint. As the Senior Data Center Operations Lead, you'll own the physical side of that build-out end to end: power, cooling, racks, network, and the people and vendors who deliver on time. You'll work closely with our infrastructure engineers in Europe and the US to turn capacity plans into real racks. Critically, you’'ll also set the operating standards for the US footprint.

## What you'll do

- Own the data center build-out and expansion, from site selection and cage design through go-live and steady-state operations
- Work through power budgets, cooling, and density with colocation providers
- Deploy and maintain racks: compute, memory and storage optimized servers, and cabling
- Work with our infrastructure engineers on rack design, network capacity, and peering, feeding what you learn on the floor back into the next design revision
- Own data center operations from purchase order to production: procure hardware, manage delivery and logistics, and run the site day to day with runbooks, maintenance, incident response, and root-cause analysis
- Manage hardware and datacenter vendors, contractors, and SLAs, and hold them to the same bar we hold ourselves
- Act as the bridge between the site, the team in Europe, and leadership, keeping timelines and risks visible

## What we're looking for

- Hands-on experience building out or operating data centers or large-scale bare metal fleets, including bringing new capacity online
- A real feel for the fundamentals: power distribution, cooling, high-density racks, and high-speed networking
- You've deployed hardware at scale, managing the colos, contractors, and vendors it takes to get it deployed
- Comfortable with Linux and MacOS
- Clear communication and ownership, especially when working across time zones with a distributed team
- Based near Ashburn, Virginia

You can expect:

- Competitive salary and stock options
- Flexible working hours
- Market-leading parental leave

Life at Namespace Labs:

- We pride ourselves in being a small team of experts that can achieve a lot.
- We balance our long-term vision with short-term pragmatism.
- We believe in being fully transparent internally on how decisions are made, on how the company is doing, and we use that information to drive our decisions.

## About Namespace

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Namespace provides high-performance cloud compute and developer infrastructure that accelerates CI/CD, builds, tests, and development environments for engineering teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funded – Seed and Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021–2022 (first seed round in 2022)
- **Founders**: Hugo (co‑founder & CEO); co‑founded by other former Google engineers (full names not publicly disclosed)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Developer infrastructure / Cloud compute for CI/CD and development workflows
- **Target customers**: B2B; fast‑moving engineering teams at companies of all sizes (SMB to enterprise)
- **Mission**: “Transform how great software is built — making development simple, lean, and focused on teams and applications.”

## Products & Services
- **Namespace Actions**: Drop‑in replacement GitHub Actions runners that deliver 2x–10x faster workflows using purpose‑built compute, built‑in caching, snapshotting, and full observability.
- **Devboxes**: Isolated, ephemeral cloud environments for AI coding agents, debugging (remote SSH/VNC), and ad‑hoc development – spun up in seconds.
- **Build Acceleration**: Remote caching and high‑performance compute for popular toolchains (Bazel, Nix, Turbo, Docker) to speed up builds and tests incrementally.
- **Container Registry**: Integrated, high‑performance private container registry for ephemeral runs, tests, and production.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**: Total disclosed funding ~$75,000 (Seed round, 2022); Series A led by New Enterprise Associates (amount undisclosed); Seed round (2024) led by Susa Ventures (amount undisclosed). Annual revenue not publicly available.
- **Notable Investors & Advisors**: New Enterprise Associates, Susa Ventures; advisors include Alex Schultz (CMO/VP Analytics @ Facebook), Jiten Vaidya (co‑founder Planetscale), Kevin Gibbs (CEO Terraton, ex‑CEO Quip), Spencer Kimball (CEO Cockroach Labs), Neha Narkhede (co‑founder Confluent), Bradley Horowitz, and others.
- **Growth Signals**: 21 employees (as of early 2025) with +15.4% monthly headcount growth; website traffic up 429% year‑over‑year; hundreds of companies already using the platform; 10 active job postings indicating expansion.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose‑built infrastructure**: Designed and operated custom server racks and full‑stack compute/network/storage specifically for build and test workloads – not repurposed general‑purpose cloud. This yields measurably higher performance and cost efficiency.
- **Google‑level expertise**: Founded by engineers who built Boq, Google’s internal application platform used by Search, YouTube, Workspace, etc.
- **Seamless integration**: Works as a simple drop‑in replacement for GitHub Actions (change `runs-on`) without complex configuration.
- **Enterprise‑grade security**: SOC 2 Type 2 attested, SAML SSO, audit logs, SIEM integration, private endpoints, and fine‑grained access controls.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Accelerate adoption of Namespace Actions and Devboxes; expand enterprise sales; deepen capabilities for AI‑powered coding tools and multi‑platform development (macOS, Linux, ARM).
- **Direction for growth**: “Making building software seamless” – adding built‑in observability, workflow analytics, and advanced caching to eliminate waiting for builds and tests.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Love infrastructure and working with developers”; team of former Google engineers building the future of software development. Emphasis on shipping features instead of waiting for infrastructure.
- **Work model**: Offices in San Francisco (HQ) and Zurich, Switzerland; likely hybrid/remote‑friendly (job postings include US and remote locations like “US”).
- **Engineering & perks**: Small, fast‑growing team (21 people) with low hierarchy. Focus on high‑impact, low‑toil infrastructure work. Open positions span product engineering, infrastructure engineering, account executive roles.

## Sources
1. [namespace.so – Homepage](https://namespace.so/)
2. [namespace.so – Company](https://namespace.so/company)
3. [namespace.so – About](https://namespace.so/about)
4. [namespace.so – Careers](https://namespace.so/careers)
5. [linkedin.com – Namespace company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/namespace)

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- [Account Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/account-manager-namespace-switzerland-tvxct4nq98r3) — Switzerland
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- [Technical Project Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/technical-project-manager-namespace-switzerland-3mk1dhqb2vgf) — Switzerland
- [Security Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/security-engineer-namespace-switzerland-56va7t2pm654) — Switzerland
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