# Engineering Manager, Kubernetes Platform (LKS)

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 San Francisco, San Jose, or Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday. About the Role Lambda Kubernetes Service (LKS) is an API-first Kubernetes platform for AI training and inference on Lambda infrastructure. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team building its customer-facing platform capabilities: cluster runtime, system components, managed add-ons, and AI workload orchestration. You’ll lead the engineering team and partner with the Hosted Control Plane team and Lambda’s Compute, Networking, Storage, IAM, Security, and Product teams. The goal is a reliable, extensible Kubernetes experience from a functional vanilla cluster to vetted capabilities such as GPU and network operators,

- **Id**: 4295539
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lambda-engineering-manager-kubernetes-platform-lks>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, San Jose, United States, Bellevue, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 9
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T21:16:29Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T01:03:28Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4597
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Servers & Data Center Hardware, AI Compute & Inference

## Company

- **Id**: 32991
- **Name**: Lambda
- **Domain**: lambda.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lambda-ai>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.571
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 48
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 297000
- **Max**: 440000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 440000

## Technologies

- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **SLURM** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **Ray** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 9
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T01:03:28Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 19; Filings 12m: 19

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 49
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T02:46:04Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 440000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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