Senior Optical Engineering Manager

Overview

Lead the optical engineering organization responsible for Lambda's backbone and customer interconnectivity, owning optical network planning, delivery and operation end to end while building and scaling the team that delivers it.

What you'll do

• Own optical networking planning, delivery and operation end to end, and be accountable for capacity landing ahead of demand.
• Build and lead the organization that delivers it: hire, develop and retain engineers and the leaders who manage them, and design the team structure as the org grows.
• Set the multi-year technical strategy for optical capacity automation to ensure it continually scales.
• Convert manual process into durable software so the capacity pipeline runs without heroics.
• Own the operational bar for your org, including how capacity work is planned, reviewed, shipped, measured and learned from when it goes wrong.
• Manage through leads and senior ICs, developing both through regular 1:1s, clear performance feedback, growth planning, and sponsorship of meaningful work.
• Partner and support the Interconnect team who negotiate, acquire and coordinate on external connectivity.
• Partner with Principal Engineers and technical leadership to maintain a high engineering bar across design, code quality and operational reliability.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Data Center Operations, Product and Finance to align capacity roadmaps, forecast demand and manage long-lead dependencies.
• Represent your org's work and technical direction to senior leadership, and to enterprise customers and partners where appropriate.
• Contribute to org-wide engineering process improvements, including how we plan, how we ship, and how we learn from incidents.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of optical engineering management experience.
• Proven track record of building and scaling engineering organizations that deliver mission-critical, high-performance cloud connectivity serving millions of users.
• Foster a data driven, automation first, high velocity organization.
• Familiarity designing, building, scaling and operating large-scale networks.
• Strong automation skills and track record accelerating business delivery velocity on a large scale.
• 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.
• Track record of successful project and product delivery in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal, who uses high quality written artifacts to inform decision making and get approval on problems and solution opportunities.

Nice to have

• Experience in GPU cloud, HPC, or AI/ML infrastructure environments.
• Familiarity with large-scale data center or cloud networking, including fabric build-out, capacity modelling, or network supply chain.
• Experience with infrastructure capacity forecasting and long-lead hardware planning.
• Prior experience at a high-growth infrastructure or cloud company.

Details

• Reports to the Senior Director of Capacity Delivery.
• Location: Dublin, Ireland.