Lambda
Engineering Manager - Control Plane
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 70 days ago
PythonGoDistributed SystemsCloud PlatformsMachine LearningResearchLeadershipCollaborationTime Management
About the role
- Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco office location 4 days per week; Lambda's designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
- However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
Responsibilities
- Lead the AI Cloud Core Platform team of ~6 engineers, with end-to-end ownership of Cloud Platform and governance capabilities.
- Drive execution of roadmap features including cluster lifecycle automation.
- Balance rapid feature delivery with longer-term investments in scalability, observability, and platform design.
- Collaborate with other Lambda teams (Control Plane, Billing, Platform) to ensure smooth, integrated delivery across the stack.
- Proven record of leading and building engineering teams that work on mission-critical, high performance systems.
- Proven track record leading teams that deliver enterprise features or governance platforms.
- Exceptional leadership skills that encompass leading by trust, building empathy with your reports and other teams, and maintaining a sustainable but rapid velocity.
- Extensive experience collaborating with product, sales, and other engineering teams to build cohesive products with a focus on user experience and reliability.
- Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
Nice to have
- Experience with IAM, authentication/authorization (SSO, RBAC, SCIM), governance tooling, or compliance features.
- 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Skills
- Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence.
- One person, one GPU.
- Our scope includes the Lambda website, cloud APIs and systems as well as internal tooling for system deployment, management and maintenance.
Compensation
- The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors.
- However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
- We offer generous cash & equity compensation
Benefits
- We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
Company info
- We offer generous cash & equity compensation
- Partner closely with Product and Design to ensure the user experience matches the needs of enterprise customers.
Equal opportunity
- Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer.
- Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
Visa & Work Authorization
- ational origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law
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