Engineering Manager, FDE Infrastructure (UK)
Remote • United Kingdom • FullTime
Posted 3mo ago
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Infrastructure Engineer
About the job
Cohere is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their Deployment Engineering team in EMEA. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will manage a team of Forward Deployed Engineers responsible for deploying Cohere's North platform into customer environments. You will drive end-to-end deployments, take ownership of customer technical implementation, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Sales teams. The role requires mentoring the team on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and enterprise-grade deployments, as well as optimizing performance and defining scaling guidelines for compute resources.
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.
- Take ownership of customer success from technical implementation through delivery.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Sales to shape AI delivery to enterprises.
- 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 scalable processes and technology.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering 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 and a doer mentality.
- Experience managing engineers in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Excellent communication skills in English.
Benefits
- Remote-flexible work from anywhere in EMEA
- 6 weeks of paid vacation
- Equity/stock options
- Competitive salary
- Co-working stipend
- Annual learning allowance ($2,000)
- Weekly lunch stipend ($75/£75 or equivalent)
- Full health and dental benefits
- Separate budget for mental health
- RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme
- 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months
- Annual enrichment benefits (Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, workspace improvement)
- Education & learning stipend
- Budget for traveling to other offices
- Annual company offsite
- $500 home office stipend