Engineering Manager, FDE Infrastructure (UK)

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Responsibilities

• ▹Lead and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers across EMEA
• ▹Drive end-to-end deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments
• ▹Own customer success from technical implementation through delivery
• ▹Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Sales
• ▹Mentor the team on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and enterprise-grade deployments
• ▹Optimize performance for OpenSearch, databases, and other K8s services
• ▹Define scaling guidelines for GPU and CPU compute resources
• ▹Build processes and technology that scale with fast growth

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated leadership
• ▹Hands-on experience deploying enterprise software at scale
• ▹Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• ▹Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines
• ▹High agency — you don't wait for permission to solve problems
• ▹Experience managing engineers in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• ▹Excellent communication skills in English

Nice to have

• ▹Fluency in additional European languages
• ▹Experience with AI/ML infrastructure
• ▹Background in enterprise security and compliance

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Remote-flexible work from anywhere in EMEA
• ▹6 weeks of paid vacation
• ▹Equity/stock options, competitive salary, co-working stipend, annual $2,000 learning allowance
• ▹Weekly lunch stipend, full health and dental benefits, mental health budget
• ▹Retirement plan (RRSP/401K/pension) matching, 100% parental leave top-up for up to 6 months
• ▹$500 home office stipend, travel budget, annual company offsite

About the company

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. It builds cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products designed to solve real-world business problems, training and deploying frontier models for enterprises building AI systems. It's a global technology company co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with key offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany and Paris.