
Engineering Manager, Platform Infrastructure (Foundations)
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AnyScale is hiring an Engineering Manager, Platform Infrastructure (Foundations). AnyScale is seeking an experienced engineering leader to head its Platform Infrastructure organization, responsible for guiding vision, technical direction, and building high‑performing teams that deliver cloud‑native distributed AI infrastructure such as cluster launchers, autoscaling, and reliability components, while collaborating with customers and field engineers to solve complex distributed systems challenges.
Key focus areas include Guide the vision and technical direction of the team, Recruit and enable a high‑performing engineering team that delivers critical value to developers and customers, and Oversee and drive strategy and execution of components including cluster launcher, cloud providers, Kubernetes support, autoscaling, control plane, data plane, reliability, billing stack, and production database.
Successful candidates bring Engineering Management Experience, Record Of Helping Teams Scale Quickly, and Ability To Ensure A High Hiring Bar. Important skills include Kubernetes, VMs, Distributed Systems, Execution, Sense Of Urgency, and Achieving Results.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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Solid engineering management experience leading productive, building high-performing teams
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Record of helping teams scale quickly while maintaining a good culture
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Ability to ensure a high hiring bar, motivate team, coach/mentor, and handle performance management issues.
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Deep technical knowledge and experience in distributed systems and prior experience working on kubernetes, VMs.
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A great track record of execution
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A sense of urgency, a mindset towards achieving results, and excellent prioritization skills
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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.
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