Senior Engineering Manager, Federal & Regulated Infrastructure

The role

You will lead an engineering team to build the infrastructure and deployment foundation for regulated, high-assurance environments. You will define technical requirements for regulated customers and deploy services into these environments end to end.

What you will do

• Lead a team of engineers through a zero-to-one build
• Define technical requirements of regulated customers and deploy services in regulated environments
• Partner with the platform team to adapt for regulated infrastructure
• Build repeatable environment provisioning using infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD
• Partner with Security, Compliance, Product, and Applied AI to turn requirements into engineering work
• Own operational outcomes for regulated environments including monitoring and incident response
• Work through gaps between commercial and regulated infrastructure
• Drive hiring in hypergrowth
• Coach and develop engineers and tech leads
• Set clear priorities, plans, and delivery commitments

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with strong hands-on technical depth
• 2+ years in an engineering management role, leading a team of engineers
• 2+ years experience hands-on experience deploying into government or other regulated cloud environments with isolated, air-gapped, or otherwise restricted networks
• Experience designing, building, and operating scaled systems in production in the cloud, including infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and containerized services
• Deep technical fluency in architecture and design reviews
• Experience with security-sensitive or regulated environment compliance (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, CMMC, SOC 2, HIPAA, or similar)
• Experience hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers

Nice to have

• Experience hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers, ideally through rapid growth

About the company

Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises.