Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

What you'll do

• Hire, manage, and develop engineers and tech leads while providing direct feedback and career growth.
• Define the team's roadmap and priorities in coordination with leadership and partner teams.
• Review technical designs and make critical decisions regarding trade-offs for core infrastructure services.
• Manage the operational health of proxy, API gateway, and inference gateway services.
• Oversee incident response, on-call rotations, and postmortem follow-through to ensure system reliability.
• Manage request routing, TLS termination, and connection management across a large fleet of servers.
• Implement authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and traffic policies for service teams.
• Optimize AI inference traffic by managing long-running requests, queuing, and GPU capacity efficiency.

What we're looking for

• Must have 10+ years of experience.
• Experience managing engineers who build and operate distributed systems in production.
• Solid technical background in proxies, load balancing, API gateways, service mesh, networking, or high-throughput backend services.
• Experience running latency-sensitive services, including on-call and incident management.
• Experience building new products, starting teams, or taking a product from design to production.
• Proven track record of hiring well and helping engineers grow.
• Hands-on experience with Envoy, NGINX, or similar (preferred).
• Familiarity with LLM inference serving and experience building internal platforms (preferred).