Lambda
Engineering Manager, Core Cloud Platform
$297K–$440K
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) +2 · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
San Jose Office (First St)
Bellevue Office - Experience
- 4+ years engineering management; 7+ years software engineering IC; 8+ years implementing business-critical services.
About the job
Leads a team building and operating Lambda’s foundational cloud platform, with an immediate focus on improving its Managed Kubernetes services for AI workloads.
What you'll do
- Own the team’s technical roadmap, architecture, delivery, and production reliability across multi-datacenter and multi-region platform services.
- Lead, hire, and develop senior and staff engineers; establish strong engineering practices and operational mechanisms.
- Partner across engineering and product teams to coordinate platform integrations and deliver customer outcomes.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of engineering management experience growing high-performing teams.
- 7+ years of software engineering IC experience, including principal or staff-level ownership of mission-critical distributed systems.
- 8+ years implementing business-critical services in Python or Go, from conception through production.
- Experience coordinating infrastructure services and with multi-region deployment, cross-datacenter state management, and high-availability architectures.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Kubernetes or Slurm; experience in AI, ML, or GPU hardware.
- Experience with large-scale cloud IaaS platforms, vendor infrastructure tooling, or IPO readiness, enterprise compliance, or security at scale.
Pay
$297K – $440K USD annual base salary
Tools
Python, Go, Kubernetes, Slurm, NVIDIA NiCo (NCX Infra Controller), BlueField DPU
AI focus
Improve cloud platform services for AI workloads and use AI-assisted engineering responsibly.
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