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LALakera

Engineering Manager, Guard Foundations(m/w/x)

Zürich
Full-timeOn-siteExperienced
AI/ML

Leading a 10-person platform team at a GenAI security startup, focusing on observability, auth, and caching systems. 3+ years of engineering management experience leading platform teams required. Daily stand-ups, 4-day work week.

Requirements

  • 3+ years engineering management experience
  • Leading platform teams
  • Strong systems thinking
  • Deep thinking about architecture
  • Deep thinking about performance
  • Deep thinking about operational resilience
  • Track record building scalable infrastructure
  • Track record enabling developer velocity
  • Collaboration skills
  • Working well with product peers
  • Working well with design peers
  • Working well with engineering peers
  • Unblocking and accelerating others
  • Bias for action
  • Accountability
  • Moving fast
  • Focusing on outcomes
  • Bringing clarity in ambiguity
  • People-first mindset
  • Building high-trust teams
  • Building high-performance teams
  • Coaching and care
  • Humility
  • Curiosity
  • Pragmatism
  • Valuing impact over ego

Tasks

  • Lead a team of 10 engineers
  • Focus on infrastructure, performance, and scalability
  • Own core systems: observability, feature toggles, config management, rate limiting, auth, caching
  • Drive engineering excellence: clean interfaces, high-quality code, great tests, robust deployments
  • Partner with product teams: build reusable infrastructure components, tooling, abstractions
  • Reduce latency, optimize throughput, increase system reliability
  • Mentor engineers with empathy and clarity
  • Hire and retain top performers
  • Shape long-term direction: define foundational roadmap
  • Support multiple deployment models: on-premise, SaaS
  • Define and drive multi-cloud strategy and execution

Work Experience

  • 3 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent
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