Senior Optical Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ireland.

📋 Description

• Oversee the comprehensive planning, delivery, and operation of optical networking, ensuring capacity is established ahead of demand.

• Build and lead the team by hiring, nurturing, and retaining engineers and engineering leaders.

• Develop the team structure in alignment with organizational growth.

• Define a multi-year technical strategy for the automation of optical capacity.

• Transform manual processes into robust software and establish a capacity pipeline that functions without extraordinary effort.

• Establish operational standards for planning, reviewing, shipping, measuring, and learning from capacity initiatives.

• Manage through leads and senior individual contributors, including conducting 1:1s, providing performance feedback, planning for growth, and sponsoring significant projects.

• Collaborate with the Interconnect team regarding external connectivity.

• Work alongside Principal Engineers and technical leadership to ensure design integrity, code quality, and operational reliability.

• Partner with Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Data Center Operations, Product, and Finance teams on capacity roadmaps, demand forecasting, and long-lead dependencies.

• Represent the organization’s initiatives and technical direction to senior leadership, enterprise customers, and partners.

• Contribute to organization-wide improvements in engineering processes and incident learning.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in optical engineering management.

• Demonstrated success in building and scaling engineering organizations that deliver mission-critical, high-performance cloud connectivity for millions of users.

• A data-driven, automation-focused, and high-velocity approach to organizational operations.

• Familiarity with the design, construction, scaling, and operation of large-scale networks.

• Strong automation skills with a proven ability to enhance business delivery speed at scale.

• Experience in forming high-performing teams within fast-paced, technically challenging environments.

• Capability to translate ambiguous business and product objectives into clear team priorities and actionable engineering plans.

• Strong judgment on when to delve deeply into technical details, delegate tasks, or escalate issues.

• Proven record of successful project and product delivery in high-pressure, fast-moving environments.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience in GPU cloud, HPC, or AI/ML infrastructure environments is a plus.

• Familiarity with large-scale data center or cloud networking, including fabric build-out, capacity modeling, or network supply chain is a plus.

• Experience with infrastructure capacity forecasting and long-lead hardware planning is a plus.

• Previous experience at a high-growth infrastructure or cloud company is a plus.

• Legally authorized to work in Ireland.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive cash and equity compensation.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.

• Wellness and commuter stipends for select positions.

• 401k Plan with a 2% company match for USA employees.

• Flexible paid time off plan that is actively encouraged for everyone.