Engineering Manager

Summary

Join KoBold Metals as their Infrastructure and Security Engineering Manager and lead a team in building and maintaining scalable, secure cloud-based systems for geoscientific data and distributed computing. You will be responsible for overseeing the IT team, implementing security protocols, and designing infrastructure for distributed parallel ML and scientific computing. This role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on cloud infrastructure management and cybersecurity, along with 2+ years of leadership experience managing technical teams. You will work closely with scientists and engineers across the organization, ensuring infrastructure is well-integrated and tailored to the computational needs of the business. The position offers a competitive salary and remote work options within the US, UK, or Canada.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with hands-on cloud infrastructure management and cybersecurity focus
• 2+ years of leadership experience, managing technical teams in a multidisciplinary environment
• Expertise in Python and designing and deploying systems in the cloud on AWS, GCP, or Azure and defining those systems with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Proven ability to implement secure, scalable systems for data management, access, and compute
• Experience with Kubernetes and GitOps-style deployments via ArgoCD or similar
• Experience designing, deploying, and managing monitoring and alerting systems against well-defined service metrics (e.g. SLO, SLA), especially via Datadog or similar
• Experience building systems to develop, deploy, and instrument machine learning models, particularly in Kubeflow or similar frameworks
• Prior responsibility for planning and implementing information security measures
• Strong track record of working effectively with diverse stakeholders: multidisciplinary environment, diverse personalities and backgrounds
• Deeply understand the uses of KoBold’s cloud technology to enable sound decision-making about infrastructure
• Build highly effective interdisciplinary relationships with scientists and engineers across the KoBold organization so that infrastructure engineering is well integrated and effectively tailored to the computational needs of the business
• Demonstrated ability to quickly absorb and synthesize complex information, with a track record of high intellectual rigor in a professional setting
• Exceptional curiosity and eagerness to learn, with a proactive approach to exploring new concepts and technologies

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand the uses of KoBold’s cloud technology to enable sound decision-making about infrastructure
• Build highly effective interdisciplinary relationships with scientists and engineers across the KoBold organization so that infrastructure engineering is well integrated and effectively tailored to the computational needs of the business
• Lead the team implementing and maintaining scalable, secure cloud-based systems for geoscientific data and distributed computing
• Oversee the IT team, including hardware, network configuration, and commercial software licenses
• Build on KoBold’s already strong cybersecurity posture
• Lead the week-to-week working cadence and quarterly planning process, set clear goals and timelines, and align our execution/tracking frameworks with our plans
• Contribute Directly to Infrastructure Engineering
• Design and implement infrastructure for distributed parallel ML and scientific computing
• Design, implement, and maintain security protocols for highly proprietary data
• Design components of the data system to ingest, store, process, and access a large volume and wide variety of geoscience data for both predictive modeling and visualization
• Manage a team of 5–10 engineers of varying seniority, fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and accountability
• Provide actionable feedback and support the professional growth of each team member

Preferred Qualifications

• Able to balance strategic vision with tactical execution, particularly in high-stakes IT and cybersecurity contexts
• Motivated to build and maintain systems that meet challenging infrastructure requirements and to work closely with engineering colleagues on a broad set of infrastructure problems
• Focused on making decisions about risk based on practical considerations and a deep understanding of the company’s business, rather than on compliance checklists or blind adherence to a preferred set of practices
• Skilled at supporting non-engineering staff such as geologists, legal and business personnel, communicating complex technical and security concepts to non-specialists
• Versatile, resourceful, and comfortable with a fast-changing and multidisciplinary work environment
• Intuitive and empathetic, able to read people effectively and understand what’s important to them, and able to attract great talent and to build long-term relationships
• Have experience scaling infrastructure at a growing startup

Benefits

• Remote work
• US base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $190,000 - $230,000