Senior Director, Network Reliability Engineering

Role description

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Director of Network Reliability Engineering to own the health of our network end to end, from GPU compute fabrics to data center, backbone and edge, and be accountable for availability, time to detect and time to restore. The role will lead an organization spanning network SRE and automation engineering, incident management, and break-fix coordination with our data center teams.

What You Will Do

Own the reliability of Lambda's network end to end, run break-fix operations at scale, lead the networking ops excellence and incident management program, set the multi-year strategy for a self-healing network, convert manual break-fix work into durable software, define network SLOs and error budgets, build automation that is safe to trust, and own the operational bar for your org.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will be a leader of leaders who treats every repeated failure as a software problem, measures reliability and builds toward a self-healing network where detection, diagnosis and remediation run as automated closed loops. You will hire and grow a talented team of software and network proficient engineers, shape team culture, and partner with technical leadership to keep reliability ahead of our scale ambitions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers and directly managing senior individual contributors
• Proven track record of leading SRE, network reliability or production operations organizations for large-scale cloud or data center networks with 24x7 availability requirements
• Network or software engineering background
• Measurably reduced toil and incident impact through automation
• Familiarity designing, building, scaling and operating large-scale networks
• Experience building closed-loop or event-driven remediation systems
• Run incident management at scale
• Foster a data driven, automation first, high velocity organization
• Have a track record of building high-performing teams in fast-moving, technically demanding environments
• Skilled at translating ambiguous business and product goals into clear team priorities and executable engineering plans
• Strong judgment about when to go deep technically, when to delegate, and when to escalate
• Excellent communicator both written and verbal

Benefits

• Generous cash & equity compensation
• 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