Engineering Manager, Core Cloud Platform — Hybrid AI Cloud

Lambda Inc.; San Francisco, Bellevue (CA, WA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision coverage

Wellness stipend

Commuter stipend

401k with 2% company match

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Lambda’s Core Cloud Platform organization builds software and services that turn large-scale GPU infrastructure into reliable, customer-facing cloud products. As Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a team building and operating these foundational platform services, owning people, execution, technical quality, and production outcomes while partnering with senior engineers to set technical direction.

This is a high-leverage role at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems,

Qualifications

• 4+ years of engineering management experience.
• 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.
• Experience coordinating across multiple independently-owned infrastructure services (compute, networking, storage).
• Background in multi-region deployment strategies, cross-datacenter state management, and high-availability architectures.
• Strong track record of owning projects end-to-end: architecture, delivery, operations, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration - proven ability to drive alignment across infrastructure, platform, and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and production operation of foundational cloud-platform services.
• Own the technical roadmap for making the platform more distributed, resilient, observable, and operationally efficient.
• Ensure the platform operates reliably across a growing multi-datacenter and multi-region fleet, including partial failures and long-running workflows.
• Partner with senior and staff engineers to make sound architectural decisions across distributed services, stateful systems, APIs, schedulers, controllers, and automation.
• Define clear contracts and integration patterns between the cloud platform and the compute, networking, fleet, security, and customer-facing systems around it.
• Lead and grow a team of senior and staff engineers; hire exceptionally, develop people, maintain a high-performance bar, and address underperformance directly.
• Own project planning, prioritization, and delivery aligned with Lambda’s business objectives and customer commitments.
• Establish strong engineering practices across design reviews, testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and on-call operations.
• Collaborate with peer Engineering Managers and cross-functional partners to resolve dependencies and deliver complete customer outcomes.
• Improve engineering leverage through automation, effective operating mechanisms, and responsible use of AI-assisted engineering.
• Stay current with developments in Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, GPU orchestration, and platform automation, and apply them where they materially improve Lambda’s platform.

Skills

Engineering management

Software engineering

Python

Go

Distributed systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Multi-region deployment

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Lambda’s Core Cloud Platform organization builds software and services that turn large-scale GPU infrastructure into reliable, customer-facing cloud products. As Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a team building and operating these foundational platform services, owning people, execution, technical quality, and production outcomes while partnering with senior engineers to set technical direction.

This is a high-leverage role at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems,