Engineering Manager, Core Services

Lambda • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, builds Gigawatt-scale AI Factories for Training and Inference. Lambda’s mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give every person access to artificial intelligence. One person, one GPU. If you'd like to build the world's best deep learning cloud, join us. This position requires presence in our San Francisco, San Jose or Seattle office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday. The Lambda Core Services team builds and operates release engineering, cloud automation, and workflow systems for our AI cloud product suite. We provide CI/CD tooling and artifact management to support the build/deploy process for our services. We also automate configuration of our AWS and other SaaS resources and manage AWS usage for all of Lambda engineering. Keeping the internal product and engineering teams moving quickly and delivering quality is what makes us tick. Along with the Platform Engineering organization, we help to build the foundations that unlock product excellence and a highly reliable experience for our customers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in either Release Engineering or Platform Engineering with at least 3 years in a management or lead role.
• Demonstrated experience leading a team of engineers and SREs on complex, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Experience managing, monitoring, and scaling CI/CD platforms.
• Deep experience using and operating AWS services.
• Solid background in software engineering and the SDLC.
• Strong project management skills, leading planning, project execution, and delivery of team outcomes on schedule.
• Experience building a high-performance team through deliberate hiring, upskilling, performance-management, and expectation setting.

Nice To Haves

• Experience driving cross-functional engineering management initiatives (coordinating events, strategic planning, coordinating large projects).
• Experience driving organizational improvements (processes, systems, etc.).
• Experience managing AWS service usage across a broader engineering organization.
• Experience in AWS spend management.
• Experience designing solutions using Temporal workflows; ability to act as an internal consultant for Temporal.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience designing scalable distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Grow/Hire, lead, and mentor a team of high-performing platform engineers and SREs.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and customer service.
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, provide constructive feedback, and support career development for team members.
• Drive outcomes by managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Work with the engineering team to drive strategy for internal CI/CD and Cloud services.
• Develop self-service abstractions to make our platform tooling easier to adopt and use.
• Lead the broader engineering organization in best-practices adoption of CI/CD, Workflow, and Cloud services.
• Manage costs of both vendors and internally developed platforms.
• Lead team in the continued development of our existing CI/CD solutions based on Buildkite and Github Actions.
• Lead team in the expansion of our Terraform / Atlantis infrastructure automation platform.
• Guide Lambda engineering in utilization of AWS services in line with our technical standards.
• Guide team in problem identification, requirements gathering, solution ideation, and stakeholder alignment on engineering RFCs.
• Identify gaps in our platform engineering posture and drive resolution.
• Lead the team in supporting our internal customers from across Lambda engineering.
• Work closely with Lambda product engineering teams on requirements and planning to meet their needs.
• Work to understand the needs of engineering teams and drive our Platform solutions towards self-service.
• Manage a short list of vendors that provide SaaS solutions used at Lambda.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
• Wellness and Commuter stipends for select roles.
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees).
• Flexible Paid Time Off Plan that we all actually use.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager