Senior Director - Network Software Services

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU. If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us. *Note: This position requires presence in our Bellevue or San Francisco office location 4 days per week; Lambda's designated work from home day is currently Tuesday. Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU. Our vision is bold and is not an incremental exercise. We will continually re-evaluate and reinvent our current ways of working and the automation underneath all of it, while operating the existing network flawlessly for all customer workloads. Lambda has 10x'd over the last three years, and the network engineering organization is scaling to match. We're looking for a Senior Director of Network Software Services to lead one or more teams building the software that enables Lambda to run a secure, performant and available AI Cloud at massive scale. We're looking for an experienced leader of leaders to own high impact outcomes end to end - and to build the organization that delivers it. You'll hire and grow a talented team of AI enabled software engineers, who will partner deeply with network engineering and product teams to shape team culture, and stay ahead of our scale ambitions. This role will report to the VP of Cloud and AI Networking, working alongside a highly capable and passionate team of engineers. If you'd like to join a great team of customer obsessed engineers building the world's best AI cloud, come join us. What You'll DoOwn the networking services that deliver our network monitoring, security, performance, and availability goalsOwn the architecture and operational excellence of large-scale distributed network systems, control planes, and data pathsOwn company-level goals: programmatically improving our security posture, observability of network health, internet and backbone traffic engineering capability, and moreSet the multi-year technical strategy for network software services so it scales ahead of demandHire, develop, and retain engineers and the leaders who manage them, and design the team structure as the org growsManage through leads and senior ICs, developing both - regular 1:1s, clear performance feedback, growth planning, and sponsorship of meaningful workPartner deeply with network engineering, operations, capacity, and product teams to build services that improve the quality of Lambda connectivitySet the operational bar for your org: SLOs, on-call health, incident response, and blameless postmortems that change how we buildContribute to org-wide engineering process improvements - how we plan, how we ship better code, and how we learn from incidentsPartner with Principal Engineers and technical leadership to hold a high engineering bar across design, code quality, and operational reliabilityRepresent your org's work and technical direction to senior leadership, and to enterprise customers and partners where appropriateYouHave 8+ years building highly available, large-scale distributed systems for cloud infrastructure or enterprise network architecture, including 5+ years leading software engineering teams and 2+ years managing managersHave a software engineering background - you've shipped production systems and can engage credibly on architecture, technical tradeoffs, and code qualityBring deep expertise across networking protocols and data-center/cloud networking (BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, software-defined networking, traffic engineering), zero-trust security, CI/CD automation, and cloud platforms such as AWS or OCIHave a proven track record of building and scaling engineering organizations that deliver mission-critical, high-performance cloud connectivity at scaleFoster a data-driven, automation-first, AI-enabled, high-velocity organizationTranslate ambiguous business and product goals into clear team priorities and executable engineering plansShow strong judgment about when to go deep technically, when to delegate, and when to elevateHave a track record of project and product delivery in fast-paced, high-pressure environmentsCommunicate excellently in writing and in person - you use high-quality written artifacts to drive high-quality decisions and to get alignment on problems and solutionsHold a BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or have equivalent practical experienceNice to HaveExperience in GPU cloud, HPC, or AI/ML infrastructure environmentsDeep familiarity with large-scale data center or cloud networking - fabric build-out, capacity modelling, or network supply chainFamiliarity with networking fundamentals and configuration management is highly desirable.Prior experience at a high-growth infrastructure or cloud companySalary Range InformationThe annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description. About LambdaFounded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fastOur investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent CoveWe have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOGOur values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careersWe offer generous cash & equity compensationHealth, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependentsWellness and commuter stipends for select roles401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually useEqual Opportunity EmployerLambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. 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