AI Infrastructure Engineering Manager

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking an Infrastructure Engineering Manager to bridge AI research and production, leading a team turning innovative prototypes into scalable, high‑performance enterprise solutions. You will shape the infrastructure roadmap and mentor engineers to deliver reliable systems.

In this role, you’ll build backend services for AI-driven applications, containerized platforms, and automation tools, all while staying close to customer challenges and driving platform excellence across

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant infrastructure experience.
• 2+ years of managing infrastructure or platform teams.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI).
• Kubernetes deployments on on-prem infrastructure.
• CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions), IaC (Terraform), and Kubernetes.
• Experience managing production environments with high availability and scalability.
• Monitoring, alerting, and incident response best practices.
• Experience with developer platforms and internal tooling to improve engineering velocity.
• Strong foundation in network engineering.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the infrastructure roadmap aligned with business and engineering priorities.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure systems.
• Set and maintain SLAs/SLOs for platform uptime, performance, and developer experience.
• Manage the engineering team and drive technical delivery.
• Design, build, and optimize backend services for AI-driven applications, focusing on AI agents, evaluation tooling, and automation.
• Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team.
• Inspire and mentor engineers.
• Work closely with product, security, and engineering leadership to align on goals and priorities.

Skills

Leadership & people management

Cloud architecture

IaC & automation

Networking fundamentals

DevOps mindset

Tools

Kubernetes

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Azure

OCI

Job description

Scale AI is seeking an Infrastructure Engineering Manager to bridge AI research and production, leading a team turning innovative prototypes into scalable, high‑performance enterprise solutions. You will shape the infrastructure roadmap and mentor engineers to deliver reliable systems.

In this role, you’ll build backend services for AI-driven applications, containerized platforms, and automation tools, all while staying close to customer challenges and driving platform excellence across