Engineering Manager, Platform Infrastructure (Foundations)

Anyscale
San Francisco, CA

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-level engineering leaders who guide technical direction and scale teams in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.

Best fit for

  • Mid-level engineering leaders with team scaling experience and distributed systems expertise
    — “Solid engineering management experience leading productive, building high-performing teams
  • Candidates who balance technical depth in Kubernetes/VMs with strategic team leadership
    — “Deep technical knowledge and experience in distributed systems and prior experience working on kubernetes, VMs
  • Individuals comfortable with cross-functional collaboration and customer-facing problem-solving
    — “closely work with our customers and our field engineering team to solve their problems

Things to consider

  • US-based presence likely required due to E-Verify and Right to Work poster references
    — “Anyscale Inc. is an E-Verify company and you may review the Notice of E-Verify Participation

How to stand out

  • Highlight team scaling successes with measurable culture preservation outcomes
    — “Record of helping teams scale quickly while maintaining a good culture
  • Demonstrate technical leadership in Kubernetes and cloud provider integration projects
    — “prior experience working on kubernetes, VMs
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Manager

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What success looks like

  • successful delivery of critical values to developers and customers
  • high-performing engineering teams
  • solving complex distributed systems challenges
Typical background
solid engineering management experiencedeep technical knowledge in distributed systems

Skills & requirements

Required

Engineering ManagementDistributed SystemsCloud InfrastructureKubernetesVmsRecruitmentTeam EnablementTechnical DirectionExecutionComplex Systems Challenges

Preferred

RayAI ApplicationsCluster LauncherCloud ProvidersCluster AutoscalingControl PlaneData PlaneReliabilityBilling StackProduction Database

About the role

Original posting from Anyscale via Ashby

ANYSCALE PLATFORM ENGINEERING LEADER

About Anyscale:

At Anyscale https://www.anyscale.com/, we're on a mission to democratize distributed computing and make it accessible to software developers of all skill levels. We’re commercializing Ray https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/, a popular open-source project that's creating an ecosystem of libraries for scalable machine learning. Companies like OpenAI https://thenewstack.io/how-ray-a-distributed-ai-framework-helps-power-chatgpt/, Uber https://www.uber.com/blog/horovod-ray/, Spotify https://engineering.atspotify.com/2023/02/unleashing-ml-innovation-at-spotify-with-ray/, Instacart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t26ucTy0Rs&list=PLzTswPQNepXmLUiL4F_1VHrPcCz1OeILw&index=23&pp=iAQB, Cruise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj0BqvfX_wI&list=PLzTswPQNepXmLUiL4F_1VHrPcCz1OeILw&index=46&pp=iAQB, and many more, have Ray in their tech stacks to accelerate the progress of AI applications out into the real world.

With Anyscale, we’re building the best place to run Ray, so that any developer or data scientist can scale an ML application from their laptop to the cluster without needing to be a distributed systems expert.

Proud to be backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-startup-anyscale-adds-99-million-to-andressen-horowitz-led-funding-round-11661254200 with $250+ million raised to date.

About the role:

Anyscale is looking for an experienced Engineering leader to lead our Infrastructure, SRE and Enterprise Governance Engineering teams.

Anyscale aims to provide the next generation of tools and infrastructure to make developing and running distributed AI applications in the cloud using Ray - the popular open source platform used by companies like Netflix, Uber, Instacart and others - seamless.

  • In this position, you will guide the vision, technical direction of the team, and recruit, enable a high-performing engineering team that delivers critical values to developers and Anyscale customers by solving complex distributed systems challenges.
  • You will oversee and drive the strategy and execution of components which includes cluster launcher, cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure/etc.), Kubernetes support, cluster autoscaling, control plane, data plane, reliability, billing stack, production database and related components.
  • You will closely work with our customers and our field engineering team to solve their problems, understand their challenges and make sure they are successful.

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

  • Solid engineering management experience leading productive, building high-performing teams
  • Record of helping teams scale quickly while maintaining a good culture
  • Ability to ensure a high hiring bar, motivate team, coach/mentor, and handle performance management issues.
  • Deep technical knowledge and experience in distributed systems and prior experience working on kubernetes, VMs.
  • A great track record of execution
  • A sense of urgency, a mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills
  • Effective communication

Anyscale Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates are evaluated without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law.

Anyscale Inc. is an E-Verify company and you may review the Notice of E-Verify Participation https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kt2S6_k_SjxaEdGowH4rngVdg2ApAQV3/view?usp=sharing and the Right to Work posters in English and Spanish https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K3Nz72xgsU2hngnVUEu53wEeZjbAMbnZ/view?usp=sharing

Source: Anyscale careers (Ashby)

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