Engineering Manager, Core Cloud Platform
Lambda — San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid · Mid
Role description
Role Overview
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team building and operating foundational platform services for Lambda's Core Cloud Platform. You will own the team's people, execution, technical quality, and production outcomes while partnering with senior engineers to set technical direction.
What You Will Do
Lead the design, implementation, and production operation of foundational cloud-platform services, own the technical roadmap for making the platform more distributed, resilient, observable, and operationally efficient, and ensure the platform operates reliably across a growing multi-datacenter and multi-region fleet.
Why It Might Be a Fit
You will partner with senior and staff engineers to make sound architectural decisions, define clear contracts and integration patterns, and lead and grow a team of senior and staff engineers.
Requirements
- 4+ years of engineering management experience
- 7+ years of software engineering IC experience
- 8+ years implementing business-critical services in Python or Go
- Experience building systems that coordinate across multiple independently-owned infrastructure services
- Background in multi-region deployment strategies, cross-datacenter state management, and high-availability architectures
- Strong track record of owning projects end-to-end
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration
Benefits
- Generous cash & equity compensation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Wellness and commuter stipends
- 401k Plan with 2% company match
- Flexible paid time off plan