Engineering Manager, Core Services

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

*Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco, San Jose or upcoming Bellevue 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.

About the Role:

We are seeking a seasoned Engineering Manager with deep experience in both release engineering and the management of large-scale cloud deployments. You will hire and guide a team of platform engineers in building out critical pillars of our stack. You will lead the team in designing, deploying, scaling, and supporting these solutions.

Your role is not just to manage people, but to coordinate the delivery of platform solutions to engineering customers within Lambda. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of platform engineering and the rapidly evolving field of AI infrastructure.

What You’ll Do

Team Leadership & Management:

- 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.

Technical Strategy & Execution:

- 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.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

- 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.

You

Experience:

- 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 Have

Experience:

- 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.

Salary Range Information

The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

About Lambda

- Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast

- Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove

- We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG

- Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers

- We offer generous cash & equity compensation

- 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

A Final Note:

You do not need to match all of the listed expectations to apply for this position. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.