Global VP of Engineering, AI Cloud Networking

Hamilton Barnes; California; Hybrid; USD 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Executive benefits

Hybrid work Santa Clara, CA

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead a global software engineering organization of 35–70 engineers across Silicon Valley, Armenia, and other locations.

You will report to the CEO and drive engineering execution, delivery, quality, and growth while partnering with Product Management, Architecture, and Customer Success to deliver enterprise-grade software with speed and reliability.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large software engineering organizations.
• Strong background in networking, data center tech, or cloud infrastructure.
• Track record delivering enterprise-grade software with speed and quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering org of 35–70 engineers across multiple locations.
• Drive execution, delivery, quality, and organizational growth.
• Partner with Product Management, Architecture, and Customer Success.
• Build managers and scale engineering without bureaucracy.
• Promote Agile/Scrum practices with metrics and continuous improvement.
• Ensure alignment between technical strategy and delivery schedules.
• Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

People management

Networking fundamentals

Agile/Scrum

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering

Job description

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity?

Join a leading network automation platform for AI clouds, enabling operators to launch GPU clouds in weeks, provision tenants quickly, and maximize GPU utilization. With significant growth, more than 35 live GPU cluster deployments globally, and backing from a top-tier Silicon Valley VC, the company is scaling rapidly across its product and engineering organization.

This opportunity is for a Vice President of Engineering to lead a global software engineering organization of approximately 35–70 engineers across Silicon Valley, Armenia, and other locations. Reporting to the CEO, you'll drive engineering execution, delivery, quality, and organizational growth while partnering closely with Product Management, Architecture, and Customer Success to deliver enterprise-grade software with speed, quality, and predictability.

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, feel free to reach out and apply today!

Responsibilities:

• Lead an engineering organization of approximately 35–70 engineers across software development, QA, release engineering, and engineering operations in Silicon Valley, Armenia, and across the world
• Own engineering execution, people leadership, software delivery, product quality, release cadence, and engineering operations
• Build, coach, and develop engineering managers while creating an environment where engineers can do their best work
• Drive predictable execution through Agile/Scrum practices, engineering metrics, sprint discipline, and continuous process improvement
• Build a metrics-driven engineering culture with strong QA automation, CI/CD, engineering KPIs, operational excellence, and continuous improvement
• Partner closely with the Architecture organization to translate technical strategy into high-quality software delivered on schedule
• Collaborate closely with Product Management, Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, and Support to ensure customer feedback rapidly becomes product improvements
• Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional engineering talent while scaling the organization and continually raising the engineering bar

Skills/Must Have:

• Have led software engineering organizations delivering complex infrastructure software at a networking, cloud infrastructure, virtualization, or data center technology company
• Experience leading multiple software engineering teams, engineering managers, QA organizations, and Agile/Scrum software development processes
• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals and modern data center networking technologies such as routing, switching, EVPN-VXLAN, virtualization, cloud networking, and network automation
• Have succeeded at both a large networking infrastructure company (such as Cisco, Juniper Networks, Arista Networks, VMware, Palo Alto Networks, or similar) where you learned engineering discipline, process, and quality, and a venture-backed startup where you learned speed, ownership, ambiguity, and how to scale engineering without bureaucracy
• Can effectively partner with highly technical architects and product leaders while translating strategy into engineering execution
• Experience building scalable engineering organizations and improving software development processes as companies grow
• An experienced people leader who attracts, develops, and retains exceptional engineering talent
• Excited to work in person from the Santa Clara, California headquarters

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with network operating systems, SDN, network automation, cloud networking, AI infrastructure, or GPU networking platforms
• Experience leading globally distributed engineering organizations
• Experience scaling engineering organizations through periods of rapid company growth

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary, meaningful equity, and standard US executive benefits package. Hybrid working out of Santa Clara, CA.

Salary:

• Competitive base + heavy equity