Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Description

Team owns the layer between clients and backend workloads: proxy and L7 services, API Gateway, and inference gateway for AI traffic. Every request to backend services passes through this layer, so latency, availability, and correctness here directly affect everything downstream. You'll build and grow the team, set its technical direction, and own these services end to end, from design through production operations.
 

Responsibilities

Problems the team works on:
 

• Proxy and L7: request routing, TLS termination, connection management, config propagation across a large fleet, and keeping tail latency predictable under load.

• API Gateway: authentication and authorization, rate limiting and quotas, traffic policies, and giving service teams a safe, self-serve way to expose APIs.

• Inference gateway: routing AI inference traffic, which behaves differently from typical web traffic. Requests are long-running and often streamed, cost varies widely by request, and backend GPU capacity is expensive and limited. That makes routing, queuing, fairness, and capacity efficiency hard problems.

What you'll do:
 

• Build and grow the team: hire engineers and tech leads, set expectations, give direct feedback, and develop people over time.

• Define the team's roadmap and priorities with leadership and partner teams.

• Stay close enough to the technical work to review designs, weigh tradeoffs, and make calls when needed.

• Own the operational health of the services: on-call, incident response, postmortems, and follow-through on reliability work.

• Work closely with networking, security, platform, and ML infrastructure teams on problems that cross team boundaries.

What we're looking for:
 

• Experience managing engineers who build and operate distributed systems in production.

• A solid technical background in at least one of: proxies and 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 something new, such as starting a team, launching a new service, or taking a product from early design to production.

• A track record of hiring well and helping engineers grow.

Nice to have:
 

• Hands-on experience with Envoy, NGINX or similar.

• Familiarity with LLM inference serving (batching, streaming, GPU utilization).

• Experience building internal platforms used by many engineering teams.

Qualifications

Minimum Job Qualifications

Education and/or Experience:

• 9 years of experience in software development

OR

• Bachelor’s of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software development

OR

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software development

OR

• Master’s of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 3 years of experience in software development

OR

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 3 years of experience in software development

OR

• Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 1 year of experience in software development.

Job Skills:

• Same skills as prior level, plus:
  • Agile Methodologies: Demonstrated ability to use agile methodologies to drive continuous improvement and product delivery.
  • Automation: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of automation, including designing, implementing, and managing automated tools, processes, or systems to streamline operations.
  • Compliance: Demonstrated knowledge of and adherence to regulatory, legal, and organizational compliance requirements.
  • Data Management: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of data management, including designing, operationalizing, securing, and monitoring data pipelines.
  • Data Integration: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of data integration, including specifying and using services to load and manage data from various sources.
  • Patent Innovation / Filing: Demonstrated ability to prepare, file, and manage patent applications for innovative products or technology.

Cloud – Cloud Platforms Experience:

• 3 years of professional experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).

Testing and Automation Experience:

• 6 years of experience working in testing and automation at the system level.

Distributed Systems Experience:

• 2 years of experience working with delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems.

Preferred Job Qualifications

Education and/or Experience:

• 10 years of experience in software development

OR

• Bachelor’s of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 6 years of experience in software development

OR

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 6 years of experience in software development

OR

• Master’s of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development

OR

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development

OR

• Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 2 years of experience in software development.

People Leadership / Management Experience:

• 2 years of experience in a technical lead role with direct reports.