Engineering Manager â Guard Foundations (Zürich)
Engineering Manager â Guard Foundations (Zürich)
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Engineering Manager Guard Foundations (Zrich)
At Lakera were building the next generation of GenAI security products empowering developers to ship safely and securely in a world of fast-moving AI. Guard is at the heart of that mission: a developer-first platform for detecting and preventing AI misuse abuse and hallucinations.
The Guard Foundations team builds the critical infrastructure that enables Guard to scale with speed performance and reliability. This is not just backend engineering its about creating the architectural and operational bedrock that accelerates innovation across all Guard teams.
If youre excited by infrastructure and platform challenges at the intersection of performance scale and ML systems and love enabling others to move faster this role is for you.
What youll do
As an Engineering Manager for Guard Foundations you will:
Lead and grow a team of 510 engineers focused on infrastructure performance and scalability.
Own the core systems that power Guard: observability feature toggles config management rate limiting auth caching layers and more.
Drive engineering excellence: enable high performance across Guard with clean interfaces high-quality code great tests and robust deployments.
Partner with product teams: unblock and accelerate innovation by building reusable infrastructure components tooling and abstractions.
Make performance a product feature: reduce latency optimize throughput and increase system reliability across the Guard stack.
Coach and grow talent: mentor engineers with empathy and clarity; hire and retain top performers.
Shape long-term direction: work with leadership to define the foundational roadmap for Guard.
What were looking for
3 years of engineering management experience leading platform teams.
Strong systems thinking: you dont need to code daily but you think deeply about architecture performance and operational resilience.
Track record of building infrastructure that scaled with product growth and enabled developer velocity.
Collaboration skills: you work well with product design and engineering peers unblocking and accelerating others.
Bias for action and accountability you move fast focus on outcomes and bring clarity in ambiguity.
People-first mindset: you build high-trust high-performance teams through coaching and care.
Humility curiosity and pragmatism: you value impact over ego.
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Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
