Systems Engineering Manager

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Stockholm
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 175,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)Experience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Rust","C","C++","Java","Linux","Containers"]

Engineering Manager to lead a group of highly experienced engineers, spending roughly half time on technical contribution and half on people management. Set direction, remove blockers, and foster a strong engineering culture as the team tackles distributed computing, large-scale data handling, and performance optimization in a fast-growing AI infrastructure company with hubs in NYC, SF, and Stockholm.

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Systems Engineering Manager

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Job Summary

Engineering Manager to lead a group of highly experienced engineers, spending roughly half time on technical contribution and half on people management. Set direction, remove blockers, and foster a strong engineering culture as the team tackles distributed computing, large-scale data handling, and performance optimization in a fast-growing AI infrastructure company with hubs in NYC, SF, and Stockholm.
Location: Stockholm
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Provide leadership to a group of engineers, balancing technical contribution with people management.
  • •Set direction, remove blockers, and foster a strong engineering culture.
  • •Collaborate with the team to tackle complex systems challenges in distributed computing and data handling.
  • •Drive performance optimization and scale engineering practices for high-impact projects.
  • •Communicate with clarity to help engineers move fast and make sound decisions.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 175,000 - 250,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •At least 10 years of industry experience, including 3 years experience in a leadership role.
  • •Experience building high-performance distributed systems at a large scale.
  • •Strong background in cloud infrastructure.
  • •Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc.).
  • •Proficient in systems-level languages such as Rust, C, C++, or Java.
Experience:10+ yearsAI infrastructureDistributed systemsCloud computing
Skills:RustCC++JavaLinuxContainers
Tech Stack:RustCC++JavaLinuxContainers

Company Brief

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Provides a serverless, high-performance cloud platform for AI, ML, and data workloads — offering instant autoscaling, elastic GPU access, and developer-first tooling to run inference, training, and batch jobs at scale.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Founded: 2021
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