Engineering Manager, Core Cloud Platform & Kubernetes

Lambda; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team building foundational cloud-platform services for large-scale GPU infrastructure. You will own people, execution, technical quality, and production outcomes while partnering with senior engineers to set direction.

This role focuses on evolving the Managed Kubernetes platform, enabling easier provisioning, upgrades, operation, and scale across multi-datacenter and multi-region fleets, with close collaboration

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams of senior and staff engineers.
• Strong background in distributed systems and cloud platform design.
• Experience with Kubernetes and large-scale GPU/AI workloads.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and production operation of foundational cloud-platform services.
• Own the technical roadmap for a more distributed, observable, and efficient platform.
• Ensure the platform operates reliably across multi-datacenter and multi-region fleets.
• Partner with senior and staff engineers to make architectural decisions across distributed services, stateful systems, APIs, schedulers, controllers, and automation.
• Define contracts and integration patterns between the cloud platform and compute, networking, fleet, security, and customer-facing systems.
• 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

Skills

Leadership

People management

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Strategic planning

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Monitoring

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team building foundational cloud-platform services for large-scale GPU infrastructure. You will own people, execution, technical quality, and production outcomes while partnering with senior engineers to set direction.

This role focuses on evolving the Managed Kubernetes platform, enabling easier provisioning, upgrades, operation, and scale across multi-datacenter and multi-region fleets, with close collaboration