Lambda
Network Planning & Design Manager
$196K–$290K
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) +1 · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
Bellevue Office
About the job
Designs carrier, data center, backbone, and customer-interconnect connectivity for Lambda’s AI cloud, taking plans from requirements and supplier evaluation through engineering approval and delivery.
What you'll do
- Develop physical and optical network designs, capacity plans, and acceptance criteria; assess route diversity, resilience, cost, and expansion options.
- Coordinate with carriers, suppliers, and equipment partners to develop routes, resolve constraints, and recommend options.
- Prepare design packages, support delivery and revisions, and turn project lessons into reusable standards.
What they ask for
- Experience designing or developing carrier, cloud, or data center connectivity, with designs progressing from requirements into delivery.
- Practical knowledge of dark fiber, wavelength services, optical transport, and internet interconnection.
- Experience working with carrier engineers, colocation providers, or equipment suppliers to solve design constraints.
- Ability to assess supplier options, explain recommendations, and produce clear design documentation.
Nice to have
- Experience designing long-haul optical networks or DWDM systems.
- Experience with private cloud connectivity, internet exchanges, large compute deployments, carrier solutions engineering, or route mapping and capacity planning tools.
Pay
$196K – $290K USD base salary
Tools
dark fiber, wavelength services, optical transport, internet interconnection, dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM)
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