Engineering Manager, Networking

Key Responsibilities- Build and lead the team: Recruit, develop, and retain a team of exceptional network engineers; establish team charter, practices, and priorities as the team matures- Drive technical strategy: Partner with technical leads to prioritize work across WAN buildout, data center networking, cloud connectivity, and host networking---ensuring we're solving the right problems at the right time- Ensure operational excellence: Mature the team's approach to reliability, observability, and incident response as the network becomes increasingly critical to research and production workloads- Unblock research at scale: Enable ML teams to seamlessly use compute capacity across multiple cloud providers and our own data centers- Communicate and coordinate: Serve as the bridge between the networking team and the broader organization---clearly articulating dependencies, risks, and progress to stakeholders- Stay technically grounded: Maintain enough technical depth to understand your team's work, provide meaningful guidance, and credibly represent networking concerns in cross-functional discussionsAbout YouWe're looking for a technical leader who thinks of themselves as a problem-solver and team-builder first.u00a0Minimum Requirements:- 8+ years of experience in an Engineering Manager role- Experience building teams in environments with ambiguity and rapid change- Strong technical foundation in networking: you can credibly discuss TCP/IP, BGP, routing architectures, and network debugging at a level that earns respect from senior ICs- Experience across multiple networking domains (WAN, data center networking, host networking, cloud networking),u00a0with a strong emphasis on data center networking- Ability to balance technical depth with pragmatic decision-making; you know when to dive deep and when to trust your team- Strong communication skills---you can translate complex technical challenges into business terms and vice versa- Comfort with end-to-end ownership in environments where best practices don't yet existPreferred Requirements:- Experience at companies during periods of hypergrowth where you've scaled networking alongside the business- Background in environments where you've worn multiple hats and worked across organizational boundaries- Familiarity with both cloud provider networking (AWS, GCP) and on-premises/colo environments- Experience working directly with internal users, cloud providers, and vendors to solve end-to-end networking problems- Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure and the unique demands of large-scale distributed training.u00a0For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings (

Created: 2026-02-23