Director, Scalable Network Capacity & Automation

Socket.dev; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401k with company match (USA)

Wellness and commuter stipends

Generous cash & equity compensation

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, seeks a Director of Network Capacity Automation to lead teams building software that enables capacity planning and delivery ahead of demand for our GPU cloud infrastructure. This position reports to the VP of Cloud and AI Networking and sits at the helm of a critical growth area.

You will hire and develop engineers, shape the org culture, and partner with technical leadership to maintain high standards in design, code quality, and operational reliability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering management experience, including senior ICs
• Proven record building and scaling high-performance cloud connectivity teams
• Background in software engineering with production systems experience
• Strong automation and data-driven approach
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale networks

Responsibilities

• Own network capacity end to end — planning, delivery, turn-up and lifecycle — and be accountable for capacity landing ahead of demand
• Build and lead the organization that delivers it: hire, develop and retain engineers and the leaders who manage them, and design the team structure as the org grows
• Set the multi-year technical strategy for capacity automation to ensure it continually scales
• Convert manual process into durable software — the goal is a capacity pipeline that runs without heroics, not a better-organised set of runbooks
• Own the operational bar for your org: how capacity work is planned, reviewed, shipped, measured and learned from when it goes wrong
• Manage through leads and senior ICs, developing both — regular 1:1s, clear performance feedback, growth planning, and sponsorship of meaningful work
• Partner and support our Interconnect team who negotiate, acquire and coordinate on external connectivity
• Partner with Principal Engineers and technical leadership to maintain a high engineering bar across design, code quality and operational reliability
• Partner with Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Data Center Operations, Product and Finance to align capacity roadmaps, forecast demand and manage long-lead dependencies
• Represent your org's work and technical direction to senior leadership, and to enterprise customers and partners where appropriate
• Contribute to org-wide engineering process improvements — how we plan, how we ship, how we learn from incidents

Skills

Engineering management

Network capacity planning

Software engineering background

Automation mindset

Distributed systems design

Large-scale networking

Team leadership

Communication skills

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, seeks a Director of Network Capacity Automation to lead teams building software that enables capacity planning and delivery ahead of demand for our GPU cloud infrastructure. This position reports to the VP of Cloud and AI Networking and sits at the helm of a critical growth area.

You will hire and develop engineers, shape the org culture, and partner with technical leadership to maintain high standards in design, code quality, and operational reliability.