Lambda is looking to build the world's best deep learning cloud to help the smartest minds on the planet build Superintelligence. The company needs to scale its cloud offering, including its website, cloud APIs and systems, and internal tooling for system deployment, management, and maintenance.
Requirements
- 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering, with a focus on large-scale distributed systems and backend systems.
- 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.
- Ability to understand, review and structure Python and Go applications.
- Experience with IAM, authentication/authorization (SSO, RBAC, SCIM), governance tooling, or compliance features.
- Background building cloud application platforms.
- Experience managing a remote, distributed team
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.
- Contribute to a culture of high performance, documentation, humility, and curiosity.
- Be product-focused in your leadership and execution, always placing the needs of the customer first, with a particular focus on feature velocity, reliability and security.
- Shape a culture of sustainable, empathetic, and high-velocity engineering, with a deep focus on cross-team collaboration, documentation, and data-driven decision-making.
Other
- 5+ years in a full-time management role at a high-growth technology company
- Exceptional leadership skills that encompass leading by trust, building empathy with your reports and other teams, and maintaining a sustainable but rapid velocity.
- Demonstrated expertise in managing long-term projects alongside urgent, short-term priorities and incident resolution.
- Extensive experience collaborating with product, sales, and other engineering teams to build cohesive products with a focus on user experience and reliability.
- This position requires presence in our San Francisco office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
