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Remote Network Engineering Manager jobs are open across the U.S. in telecommunications, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise technology, at remote-first firms and distributed teams managing large-scale network operations. Employers hiring remotely right now include Lambda, IQ Fiber, and BlackRock. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.
If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.
- Note: This position requires presence in our Bellevue or San Francisco office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.
Our vision is bold and is not an incremental exercise. We will continually re-evaluate and reinvent our current ways of working and the automation underneath all of it, while operating the existing network flawlessly for all customer workloads.
Lambda has 10x'd over the last three years, and the network engineering organization is scaling to match. We're looking for a Senior Director of Network Engineering to lead one or more teams designing and building Lambda;’s global Cloud & AI networks. In this role you own the network itself — security, performance, availability and cost of the network as well as ensuring our AI datacenter builds deliver on time.
We're looking for an experienced leader of leaders to own high impact outcomes end to end — and to build the organization that delivers it. In this role you will also get to partner with our product teams to ensure we exceed our customers' connectivity needs. You'll hire and grow a talented team of AI enabled software & network engineers, who will partner deeply with other network software and product teams to shape team culture, and stay ahead of our scale ambitions.
This role will report to the VP of Cloud and AI Networking, working alongside a highly capable and passionate team of engineers. If you'd like to join a great team of customer obsessed engineers building the world's best AI cloud, come join us.
What You'll Do
Own the architecture of Lambda's global network — GPU fabrics, data center fabrics, backbone, and internet edge — along with its security, performance, and availability
Build multi-year roadmaps for network architecture, data center fabrics, and cloud connectivity, and keep capacity ahead of demand
Set the strategy for our internet presence: peering, transit, IX footprint, and backbone traffic engineering
Partner with security, product, and executive leaders to align the network roadmap with business goals
Own network readiness for every AI data center build including management, site turn-up, and validation — so capacity lands on schedule
Own the network operating and capital budgets (OpEx and CapEx) and driving cost per [GPU/port/Gbps] down as we scale
Own 24/7 global network operations: uptime, latency, and jitter targets, on-call health, incident response, and blameless postmortems that change how we build
Establish the telemetry and monitoring architecture that lets us find and mitigate risk proactively rather than reactively
Drive an automation-first engineering culture built on Infrastructure-as-Code pipelines, declarative configuration management, and version-controlled automated testing
Own company-level goals for network security posture, network health, and traffic engineering capability
Partner with the CISO organization to embed secure-by-design segmentation, zero-trust edge patterns, and SASE frameworks across every layer
Lead multi-disciplinary network and software engineering teams, and hire, develop, and retain the engineers and the leaders who manage them
Manage through leads and senior ICs, developing both — regular 1:1s, clear performance feedback, growth planning, and sponsorship of meaningful work
Partner with Principal Engineers and technical leadership to hold a high engineering bar across design, operational reliability, and change safety
Represent your org's work and technical direction to senior leadership, and to enterprise customers and partners where appropriate
You
Have 8+ years designing and operating highly available, large-scale networks for cloud infrastructure or enterprise network architecture, including leading network engineering teams and 2+ years managing managers
Bring deep expertise across data center and cloud networking — BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, Clos and spine-leaf fabrics, software-defined networking, and traffic engineering — plus zero-trust security, network automation, and cloud platforms such as AWS or OCI
Have designed or operated high-performance fabrics at scale (internet, backbone, RoCEv2 or InfiniBand)
Have a proven track record of building and scaling engineering organizations that deliver mission-critical, high-performance cloud connectivity at scale
Have owned network capital and operating budgets, and can negotiate with and manage hardware, optics, transit, and colocation vendors
Foster a data-driven, automation-first, AI-enabled, high-velocity organization
Translate ambiguous business and product goals into clear team priorities and executable engineering plans
Show strong judgment about when to go deep technically, when to delegate, and when to escalate
Have a track record of project and product delivery in fast-paced, high-pressure environments
Communicate excellently in writing and in person — you use high-quality written artifacts to drive high-quality decisions and to get alignment on problems and solutions
Hold a BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or have equivalent practical experience
Nice to Have
Experience in GPU cloud, HPC, or AI/ML infrastructure environments
Deep familiarity with large-scale data center build-out — fabric deployment, structured cabling and optics, commissioning, capacity modeling, or network supply chain
Experience running peering and transit strategy for a global network, including IX presence, ASN and IP address management, and DWDM or dark-fiber backbone
Hands-on depth with the platforms our teams use: [Arista / Juniper / Cisco / NVIDIA Spectrum-X and Quantum / SONiC or white-box], Terraform, Ansible, and streaming telemetry (gNMI/OpenConfig)
Experience taking a network through SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP, or meeting data-sovereignty requirements across regions
Prior experience at a high-growth infrastructure or cloud company
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Lambda
Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
We offer generous cash & equity compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
Equal Opportunity Employer
Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
Compensation Range: $399K - $531K
Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.
If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.
- Note: This position requires presence in our Bellevue or San Francisco office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.
Our vision is bold and is not an incremental exercise. We will continually re-evaluate and reinvent our current ways of working and the automation underneath all of it, while operating the existing network flawlessly for all customer workloads.
Lambda has 10x'd over the last three years, and the network engineering organization is scaling to match. We're looking for a Senior Director of Network Engineering to lead one or more teams designing and building Lambda;’s global Cloud & AI networks. In this role you own the network itself — security, performance, availability and cost of the network as well as ensuring our AI datacenter builds deliver on time.
We're looking for an experienced leader of leaders to own high impact outcomes end to end — and to build the organization that delivers it. In this role you will also get to partner with our product teams to ensure we exceed our customers' connectivity needs. You'll hire and grow a talented team of AI enabled software & network engineers, who will partner deeply with other network software and product teams to shape team culture, and stay ahead of our scale ambitions.
This role will report to the VP of Cloud and AI Networking, working alongside a highly capable and passionate team of engineers. If you'd like to join a great team of customer obsessed engineers building the world's best AI cloud, come join us.
What You'll Do
Own the architecture of Lambda's global network — GPU fabrics, data center fabrics, backbone, and internet edge — along with its security, performance, and availability
Build multi-year roadmaps for network architecture, data center fabrics, and cloud connectivity, and keep capacity ahead of demand
Set the strategy for our internet presence: peering, transit, IX footprint, and backbone traffic engineering
Partner with security, product, and executive leaders to align the network roadmap with business goals
Own network readiness for every AI data center build including management, site turn-up, and validation — so capacity lands on schedule
Own the network operating and capital budgets (OpEx and CapEx) and driving cost per [GPU/port/Gbps] down as we scale
Own 24/7 global network operations: uptime, latency, and jitter targets, on-call health, incident response, and blameless postmortems that change how we build
Establish the telemetry and monitoring architecture that lets us find and mitigate risk proactively rather than reactively
Drive an automation-first engineering culture built on Infrastructure-as-Code pipelines, declarative configuration management, and version-controlled automated testing
Own company-level goals for network security posture, network health, and traffic engineering capability
Partner with the CISO organization to embed secure-by-design segmentation, zero-trust edge patterns, and SASE frameworks across every layer
Lead multi-disciplinary network and software engineering teams, and hire, develop, and retain the engineers and the leaders who manage them
Manage through leads and senior ICs, developing both — regular 1:1s, clear performance feedback, growth planning, and sponsorship of meaningful work
Partner with Principal Engineers and technical leadership to hold a high engineering bar across design, operational reliability, and change safety
Represent your org's work and technical direction to senior leadership, and to enterprise customers and partners where appropriate
You
Have 8+ years designing and operating highly available, large-scale networks for cloud infrastructure or enterprise network architecture, including leading network engineering teams and 2+ years managing managers
Bring deep expertise across data center and cloud networking — BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, Clos and spine-leaf fabrics, software-defined networking, and traffic engineering — plus zero-trust security, network automation, and cloud platforms such as AWS or OCI
Have designed or operated high-performance fabrics at scale (internet, backbone, RoCEv2 or InfiniBand)
Have a proven track record of building and scaling engineering organizations that deliver mission-critical, high-performance cloud connectivity at scale
Have owned network capital and operating budgets, and can negotiate with and manage hardware, optics, transit, and colocation vendors
Foster a data-driven, automation-first, AI-enabled, high-velocity organization
Translate ambiguous business and product goals into clear team priorities and executable engineering plans
Show strong judgment about when to go deep technically, when to delegate, and when to escalate
Have a track record of project and product delivery in fast-paced, high-pressure environments
Communicate excellently in writing and in person — you use high-quality written artifacts to drive high-quality decisions and to get alignment on problems and solutions
Hold a BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or have equivalent practical experience
Nice to Have
Experience in GPU cloud, HPC, or AI/ML infrastructure environments
Deep familiarity with large-scale data center build-out — fabric deployment, structured cabling and optics, commissioning, capacity modeling, or network supply chain
Experience running peering and transit strategy for a global network, including IX presence, ASN and IP address management, and DWDM or dark-fiber backbone
Hands-on depth with the platforms our teams use: [Arista / Juniper / Cisco / NVIDIA Spectrum-X and Quantum / SONiC or white-box], Terraform, Ansible, and streaming telemetry (gNMI/OpenConfig)
Experience taking a network through SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP, or meeting data-sovereignty requirements across regions
Prior experience at a high-growth infrastructure or cloud company
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Lambda
Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
We offer generous cash & equity compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
Equal Opportunity Employer
Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
Compensation Range: $399K - $531K
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Banking & Financial Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote network engineering manager jobs.
- 8 or more years of network engineering experience with at least 2 in a management role
- Deep knowledge of routing and switching protocols including BGP, OSPF, and MPLS
- Experience designing and managing enterprise or carrier-grade network infrastructure
- CCNP or CCIE certification, or equivalent vendor-neutral credentials such as JNCIE
- Proficiency with network automation tools and scripting languages such as Python or Ansible
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related engineering field
Tips for Your Remote Network Engineering Manager Job Search
Prove your async leadership on paper
Remote hiring managers look for evidence that you can lead a distributed team without daily stand-ups. Document specific examples of async decision-making, written technical direction you've given, and projects you drove to completion across time zones.
Highlight remote network tooling you know
Call out the specific platforms you use for remote network monitoring, infrastructure-as-code, and team collaboration. Tools like Ansible, Terraform, and network observability platforms signal to remote employers that you can manage infrastructure without being on-site.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote network engineering manager openings from across the U.S. in one place. Search the current roles, find ones that match your background and target environment, and apply directly before postings fill.
Prepare for a distributed team interview
Remote interviews for manager roles often include a panel of engineers from different locations and time zones. Practice explaining how you set technical direction in writing, how you run async standups, and how you keep a geographically spread team aligned without micro-managing.
Remote Network Engineering Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote network engineering manager job?
Target remote-first technology companies, managed service providers, and distributed enterprise teams, as these hire network engineering managers remotely far more often than traditional on-site organizations. Remote employers screen hard for self-direction, clear async written communication, and hands-on depth in routing protocols, network automation, and cloud networking. A demonstrated history of leading distributed engineering teams or managing projects without in-person oversight gives you a real edge.
Which companies hire remote network engineering managers?
Employers currently hiring remote network engineering managers include Lambda, IQ Fiber, and BlackRock, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Remote-first technology firms, managed service providers, and cloud infrastructure companies make up the bulk of this hiring, often running fully distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones.
Can you get a remote network engineering manager job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level manager roles are harder to land because you must operate independently from day one without on-site support. Smaller remote-first companies and startups are the most likely to consider candidates earlier in their careers. Showing a portfolio of network projects you led, certifications like CCNP or CCIE, and evidence of async team coordination can substitute meaningfully for direct management experience.
Do you need a degree for remote network engineering manager jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers treat hands-on network engineering experience, vendor certifications, and a record of leading technical teams as equivalent to a four-year degree. What matters most is your ability to architect, manage, and troubleshoot complex networks and to lead a distributed team without constant oversight. A strong certifications profile and documented project outcomes can open the same doors a degree would.
Which industries hire the most remote network engineering managers?
Most remote network engineering manager openings sit in Banking & Financial Services, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. These sectors rely on geographically distributed infrastructure and engineering teams, making remote management of network operations a practical and common arrangement.
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