Systems Engineering Manager

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New York, San Francisco
Full timeUSD 250,000 - 350,000 annuallyFunction: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)Experience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving","Team management","Strategic thinking"]

Engineering Manager to lead a group of experienced engineers in distributed computing, large-scale data handling, and performance optimization. Half time is hands-on technical contribution, half time people management; set direction, remove blockers, and foster a strong engineering culture in a fast-growing AI infrastructure company with global teams.

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7 months ago

Systems Engineering Manager

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Job Summary

Engineering Manager to lead a group of experienced engineers in distributed computing, large-scale data handling, and performance optimization. Half time is hands-on technical contribution, half time people management; set direction, remove blockers, and foster a strong engineering culture in a fast-growing AI infrastructure company with global teams.
Location: New York, San Francisco
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead a group of highly experienced 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 large-scale data handling
  • •Drive performance optimization and ensure high quality engineering practices
  • •Partner with cross-functional teams to align on strategy and delivery

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,000 - 350,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

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:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solvingTeam managementStrategic thinking
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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