Senior Optical Engineering Manager
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Optical Engineering Manager leading backbone capacity, automation, and engineering teams. Building reliable connectivity for Lambda’s AI cloud infrastructure and enterprise customers.
Responsibilities:
- Own optical networking planning, delivery, and operation end to end, accountable for capacity landing ahead of demand
- Build and lead the organization by hiring, developing, and retaining engineers and engineering leaders
- Design team structure as the organization grows
- Set the multi-year technical strategy for optical capacity automation
- Convert manual processes into durable software and build a capacity pipeline that operates without heroics
- Own operational standards for planning, reviewing, shipping, measuring, and learning from capacity work
- Manage through leads and senior individual contributors, including 1:1s, performance feedback, growth planning, and sponsorship of meaningful work
- Partner with the Interconnect team on external connectivity
- Partner with Principal Engineers and technical leadership on design, code quality, and operational reliability
- Partner with Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Data Center Operations, Product, and Finance on capacity roadmaps, demand forecasting, and long-lead dependencies
- Represent the organization’s work and technical direction to senior leadership, enterprise customers, and partners
- Contribute to organization-wide engineering process improvements and incident learning
Requirements:
- 5+ years of optical engineering management experience
- Proven track record of building and scaling engineering organizations delivering mission-critical, high-performance cloud connectivity serving millions of users
- Data-driven, automation-first, high-velocity organizational approach
- Familiarity designing, building, scaling, and operating large-scale networks
- Strong automation skills and a track record accelerating business delivery velocity at large scale
- Track record of building high-performing teams in fast-moving, technically demanding environments
- Ability to translate ambiguous business and product goals into clear team priorities and executable engineering plans
- Strong judgment about when to go deep technically, delegate, and escalate
- Track record of successful project and product delivery in fast-paced, high-pressure environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience in GPU cloud, HPC, or AI/ML infrastructure environments (nice to have)
- Familiarity with large-scale data center or cloud networking, including fabric build-out, capacity modelling, or network supply chain (nice to have)
- Experience with infrastructure capacity forecasting and long-lead hardware planning (nice to have)
- Prior experience at a high-growth infrastructure or cloud company (nice to have)
- Legally authorized to work in Ireland
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 that we all actually use
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