Senior Engineering Manager, Core AI Platform
Dropbox
Head of Engineering – Cloud Platform
Equinix
full-time
Posted on:
Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $202,000 - $304,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesTerraform
About the role
- Lead the engineering teams responsible for core cloud infrastructure, compute, networking, container orchestration, and internal platform services
- Define and drive the vision, architecture, and roadmap for a self-service, secure, and highly available cloud platform
- Ensure a high standard of operational excellence through automation, monitoring, observability, incident management, and capacity planning
- Collaborate with security and compliance teams to build platforms that are secure by design and meet regulatory standards
- Partner with Developer Experience and SRE to streamline the development-to-deployment lifecycle and improve developer velocity
- Lead modernization efforts such as infrastructure-as-code, service mesh adoption, multi-cloud strategy, or internal platform APIs
- Recruit, mentor, and develop a world-class team of platform engineers and engineering leaders
Requirements
- 12+ years of engineering experience with 7+ in a leadership role focused on cloud platforms or infrastructure
- Deep expertise in public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi), and cloud-native architecture
- Proven success delivering scalable platform infrastructure in high-growth or large-scale environments
- Strong focus on automation, developer self-service, and reducing operational toil
- Experience driving cross-functional initiatives and influencing at the executive level
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills
- A bias toward action, continuous improvement, and reliability
