Lambda · 3 months ago
Engineering Manager, Core Services
San Francisco Office
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$297K/yr - $495K/yr
7+ years expLambda is a company focused on building Gigawatt-scale AI Factories for Training and Inference, aiming to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of platform engineers in building and managing CI/CD tooling, cloud automation, and workflow systems for their AI cloud product suite.
AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingData CenterGPUMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Grow/Hire, lead, and mentor a team of high-performing platform engineers and SREs
Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and customer service
Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, provide constructive feedback, and support career development for team members
Drive outcomes by managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
Work with the engineering team to drive strategy for internal CI/CD and Cloud services
Develop self-service abstractions to make our platform tooling easier to adopt and use
Lead the broader engineering organization in best-practices adoption of CI/CD, Workflow, and Cloud services
Manage costs of both vendors and internally developed platforms
Lead team in the continued development of our existing CI/CD solutions based on Buildkite and Github Actions
Lead team in the expansion of our Terraform / Atlantis infrastructure automation platform
Guide Lambda engineering in utilization of AWS services in line with our technical standards
Guide team in problem identification, requirements gathering, solution ideation, and stakeholder alignment on engineering RFCs
Identify gaps in our platform engineering posture and drive resolution
Lead the team in supporting our internal customers from across Lambda engineering
Work closely with Lambda product engineering teams on requirements and planning to meet their needs
Work to understand the needs of engineering teams and drive our Platform solutions towards self-service
Manage a short list of vendors that provide SaaS solutions used at Lambda
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience in either Release Engineering or Platform Engineering with at least 3 years in a management or lead role
Demonstrated experience leading a team of engineers and SREs on complex, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced startup environment
Experience managing, monitoring, and scaling CI/CD platforms
Deep experience using and operating AWS services
Solid background in software engineering and the SDLC
Strong project management skills, leading planning, project execution, and delivery of team outcomes on schedule
Experience building a high-performance team through deliberate hiring, upskilling, performance-management, and expectation setting
Preferred
Experience driving cross-functional engineering management initiatives (coordinating events, strategic planning, coordinating large projects)
Experience driving organizational improvements (processes, systems, etc.)
Experience managing AWS service usage across a broader engineering organization
Experience in AWS spend management
Experience designing solutions using Temporal workflows; ability to act as an internal consultant for Temporal
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience designing scalable distributed systems
Benefits
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Wellness and Commuter stipends for select roles
401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Flexible Paid Time Off Plan that we all actually use
Company
Lambda
Lambda is a cloud-based platform that provides high-performance GPU hardware and cloud infrastructure for AI model training and inference.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$3.19BKey Investors
TWG GlobalJP MorganMacquarie Group
2025-11-18Series E· $1.5B
2025-08-19Debt Financing· $275M
2025-02-19Series D· $480M
Leadership Team
Stephen Balaban
Co-founder, CEO
Michael Balaban
Co-Founder / CTO
Recent News
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