Lambda

Engineering Manager, AI Cloud Platform

Lambda

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $330,000 - $440,000 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsGoPython

About the role

  • Lead the AI Cloud Core Platform team of ~6 engineers with end-to-end ownership of Cloud Platform and governance capabilities
  • Drive execution of roadmap features including cluster lifecycle automation
  • Partner closely with Product and Design to ensure the user experience matches the needs of enterprise customers
  • Balance rapid feature delivery with longer-term investments in scalability, observability, and platform design
  • Hire, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, providing career development and feedback
  • Collaborate with other Lambda teams (Control Plane, Billing, Platform) to ensure smooth, integrated delivery across the stack
  • Contribute to a culture of high performance, documentation, humility, and curiosity
  • Be product-focused in leadership and execution, prioritizing feature velocity, reliability, and security
  • Shape a culture of sustainable, empathetic, and high-velocity engineering with a focus on cross-team collaboration, documentation, and data-driven decision-making
  • Build and scale Lambda's deep learning cloud offering including website, cloud APIs, and internal tooling for deployment, management, and maintenance

Requirements

  • 5+ years in a full-time management role at a high-growth technology company
  • 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering, with a focus on large-scale distributed systems and backend systems
  • Proven record of leading and building engineering teams that work on mission-critical, high performance systems
  • Proven track record leading teams that deliver enterprise features or governance platforms
  • Exceptional leadership skills that encompass leading by trust, building empathy, and maintaining a sustainable but rapid velocity
  • Demonstrated expertise in managing long-term projects alongside urgent, short-term priorities and incident resolution
  • Extensive experience collaborating with product, sales, and other engineering teams to build cohesive products with a focus on user experience and reliability
  • Ability to understand, review and structure Python and Go applications
  • Willingness and ability to be onsite at the San Francisco office 4 days per week
  • Experience with IAM, authentication/authorization (SSO, RBAC, SCIM), governance tooling, or compliance features (nice to have)
  • Background building cloud application platforms (nice to have)
  • Experience managing a remote, distributed team (nice to have)