Engineering Manager, Federal & Regulated Infrastructure

Digitailor; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 210,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

Snorkel AI is seeking a seasoned engineering leader to drive the zero-to-one build for regulated data environments. You will define requirements for government and regulated customers, lead architectural changes, and deploy secure services with a focus on auditability and compliance.

You will collaborate with Security, Compliance, Product, and Applied AI teams to translate requirements into engineering work, ensuring a robust, scalable platform while hiring and mentoring engineers for rapid

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with strong hands-on depth.
• 2+ years in engineering management leading a team.
• 2+ years deploying into government or regulated cloud environments.
• Experience designing, building, and operating scaled systems in production in the cloud, including infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and containerized services.
• Deep technical fluency enabling architecture reviews and meaningful changes, not just management.
• Experience with security-sensitive or regulated environment compliance (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, CMMC, SOC 2, HIPAA, or similar).
• Experience hiring, developing, and retaining engineers in rapid growth.
• Clear communication with engineers, security/compliance partners, customers, and executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers through a zero-to-one build for regulated environments.
• Define requirements of regulated customers and deploy services end-to-end.
• Coordinate with platform, security, and compliance teams to plan architecture changes.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines with security and change control.
• Own operational outcomes: monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, audit trails.
• Drive hiring and maintain a high talent bar as the team scales.
• Establish engineering standards for design reviews, testing, observability, and RCA.

Skills

Team leadership

Regulated cloud experience

Architectural reviews

Security compliance awareness

Hiring and mentoring

Communication with executives

Cloud deployment

Documentation and auditability

Job description

About Snorkel Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. We combine technology with research-driven AI data development to create datasets, benchmarks, evals, and custom solutions for real-world AI systems. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises to move from better data to better outcomes.

About The Role

This team brings our DaaS (Data-as-a-Service) platform to government and regulated enterprise customers. You’ll lead the engineering team that takes the services behind DaaS and makes them run securely in regulated, high-assurance infrastructure, without forking the product. The goal is to keep the same capabilities we use today for generating data, evals, and benchmarks, now built to meet the security, auditability, and compliance demands of regulated data and the subject-matter experts who work with it. This is a zero-to-one role. You’ll start by understanding the technical requirements of our regulated customers in depth. Then you’ll work with your team and our platform team to make the architecture changes, move services, and deploy into regulated environments end to end. Your team won’t be building data. You’ll build the infrastructure and deployment foundation that makes these environments possible, and you’ll partner closely with our Applied AI team, who work directly with customers to develop data and evals, so they can deploy and deliver inside them. You’ll make autonomous technical, execution, and people decisions, and you’ll know the systems well enough to challenge designs and propose better ones alongside your technical leadership team.

Main Responsibilities

Lead a team of engineers through a zero-to-one build: define the technical requirements of regulated customers, make the architecture changes needed, and deploy and operate our services in regulated environments end to end Partner with the platform team to decide where we adapt for regulated infrastructure and where we stay identical to our commercial platform, so one product keeps moving forward across every environment Build repeatable environment provisioning: infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD that promote releases from our commercial environments into regulated ones, with security scanning and change control built into the workflow Partner with Security, Compliance, Product, and Applied AI to turn requirements (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, CMMC, and customer-specific) into engineering work, with design decisions documented and audit-ready by default Own operational outcomes for regulated environments: continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, and the evidence trail behind them Work through the gaps between commercial and regulated infrastructure, and design alternatives where services or capabilities differ Drive hiring in hypergrowth: build a strong bench and keep the bar high as the team scales Coach and develop engineers and tech leads into owners who see problems beyond their own projects Set clear priorities, plans, and delivery commitments, and rebalance quickly as company needs shift Establish engineering standards for design reviews, testing, observability, and root cause analysis

What We're Looking For

6+ years of experience in software engineering, with strong hands-on technical depth 2+ years in an engineering management role, leading a team of engineers 2+ years experience hands-on experience deploying into government or other regulated cloud environments with isolated, air-gapped, or otherwise restricted networks Experience designing, building, and operating scaled systems in production in the cloud, including infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and containerized services Deep technical fluency: you can go deep in architecture and design reviews and propose meaningful changes, not just manage from a distance Experience with security-sensitive or regulated environment compliance (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, CMMC, SOC 2, HIPAA, or similar). You don’t need to be a compliance expert, but you value rigorous, documented, auditable engineering Experience hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers, ideally through rapid growth Clear communication with engineers, security and compliance partners, customers, and executives

Locations

Locations New York; San Francisco Bay Area; Remote - US Compensation range is $215,000 - $315,000. #LI-CG1

Salary

range(s) for this role $210,000 — $315,000 USD Be Your Best at Snorkel Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly—offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth. As a member of our team, you’ll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success. Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, and learn new skills across multiple functions, you’re fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success.