Engineering Manager, Fde Infrastructure (emea)

Cohere Cohere · AI Frontier · United Arab Emirates · Agentic Platform

Engineering Manager to lead a Forward Deployed Engineers team in EMEA, responsible for the end-to-end deployment of Cohere's North platform into customer environments (private cloud, on-premises). The role involves mentoring engineers, collaborating with Product/Engineering/Sales, optimizing infrastructure (OpenSearch, K8s services), and defining scaling guidelines for compute resources. Requires strong software engineering and leadership experience, with hands-on deployment of enterprise software at scale, cloud infrastructure, and Kubernetes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers across EMEA
  2. Drive end-to-end deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments
  3. Take ownership of customer success from technical implementation through delivery
  4. Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Sales to shape how we deliver AI to enterprises
  5. Mentor your team on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and enterprise-grade deployments

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • A doer mentality
  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • leads from the front
  • gets their hands dirty
  • drives impact
  • force to be reckoned with
  • High agency
  • doer mentality

Other signals

  • Deploying frontier models
  • Deploying AI to enterprises
  • Customer success from technical implementation through delivery
  • Scaling guidelines for GPU and CPU compute resources
  • Build processes & technology that scales