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Engineering Manager, Federal & Regulated Infrastructure

Lead the engineering team to build secure infrastructure for government and regulated enterprise customers at Snorkel AI.

Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Compensation
$215k–$315k/yr
Level
lead
Type
full time · Hybrid

Posted by employer 2 days ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago

Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago

What you'll build

  • Define technical requirements of regulated customers
  • Make architecture changes for regulated environments
  • Build repeatable environment provisioning
  • Own operational outcomes for regulated environments
  • Drive hiring in hypergrowth

Must have

  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering
  • 2+ years in an engineering management role
  • 2+ years hands-on experience deploying into regulated cloud environments
  • Experience with security-sensitive or regulated environment compliance
  • Experience hiring and developing strong engineers

Role intensity

10% coding — mostly leadership/strategy

Requirements

Experience
6+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.

Benefits

Equity/Stock Options

Joblaze summary

The Engineering Manager for Federal & Regulated Infrastructure at Snorkel AI leads a team focused on adapting the company's Data-as-a-Service platform for government and regulated clients, ensuring secure and compliant deployment. This role requires expertise in software engineering, particularly in regulated environments, along with strong leadership skills to guide engineers through complex architecture changes and operational challenges. Ideal candidates have significant experience in both engineering management and compliance frameworks, making them well-suited for a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze October 21, 2026. Last confirmed on Snorkel AI's careers page October 21, 2026.
  • Salary band is above the typical range for Management roles (median ~$170,000).
  • Starts above 71% of 14 comparable lead management roles in United States that list Cloud we track (median $200,000 across 10 companies). See Cloud salary trends
  • Cloud appears in 2.9% of 581 comparable lead management roles in United States; Compliance appears in 0.9% of 581 comparable lead management roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Engineering Manager, Federal & Regulated Infrastructure role remote?
It's hybrid — Snorkel AI expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA, United States.
What's the salary range?
Snorkel AI lists $215,000–$315,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 6 years of relevant experience for this Engineering Manager, Federal & Regulated Infrastructure role.
Where is the role based?
Snorkel AI is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA, United States.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: CI/CD, Cloud, Compliance, infrastructure, security.
What seniority level is this role?
Snorkel AI targets lead candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Engineering Manager, Federal & Regulated Infrastructure role at Snorkel AI.

From the original posting

About Snorkel

About the Role

This team brings our DaaS (Data-as-a-Service) platform to government and regulated enterprise customers. You’ll lead the engineering team that takes the services behind DaaS and makes them run securely in regulated, high-assurance infrastructure, without forking the product. The goal is to keep the same capabilities we use today for generating data, evals, and benchmarks, now built to meet the security, auditability, and compliance demands of regulated data and the subject-matter experts who work with it.

This is a zero-to-one role. You’ll start by understanding the technical requirements of our regulated customers in depth. Then you’ll work with your team and our platform team to make the architecture changes, move services, and deploy into regulated environments end to end. Your team won’t be building data. You’ll build the infrastructure and deployment foundation that makes these environments possible, and you’ll partner closely with our Applied AI team, who work directly with customers to develop data and evals, so they can deploy and deliver inside them.

You’ll make autonomous technical, execution, and people decisions, and you’ll know the systems well enough to challenge designs and propose better ones alongside your technical leadership team.

Main Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of engineers through a zero-to-one build: define the technical requirements of regulated customers, make the architecture changes needed, and deploy and operate our services in regulated environments end to end
  • Partner with the platform team to decide where we adapt for regulated infrastructure and where we stay identical to our commercial platform, so one product keeps moving forward across every environment
  • Build repeatable environment provisioning: infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD that promote releases from our commercial environments into regulated ones, with security scanning and change control built into the workflow
  • Partner with Security, Compliance, Product, and Applied AI to turn requirements (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, CMMC, and customer-specific) into engineering work, with design decisions documented and audit-ready by default
  • Own operational outcomes for regulated environments: continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, and the evidence trail behind them
  • Work through the gaps between commercial and regulated infrastructure, and design alternatives where services or capabilities differ
  • Drive hiring in hypergrowth: build a strong bench and keep the bar high as the team scales
  • Coach and develop engineers and tech leads into owners who see problems beyond their own projects
  • Set clear priorities, plans, and delivery commitments, and rebalance quickly as company needs shift
  • Establish engineering standards for design reviews, testing, observability, and root cause analysis

What We're Looking For

  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with strong hands-on technical depth
  • 2+ years in an engineering management role, leading a team of engineers
  • 2+ years experience hands-on experience deploying into government or other regulated cloud environments with isolated, air-gapped, or otherwise restricted networks
  • Experience designing, building, and operating scaled systems in production in the cloud, including infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and containerized services
  • Deep technical fluency: you can go deep in architecture and design reviews and propose meaningful changes, not just manage from a distance
  • Experience with security-sensitive or regulated environment compliance (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, CMMC, SOC 2, HIPAA, or similar). You don’t need to be a compliance expert, but you value rigorous, documented, auditable engineering
  • Experience hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers, ideally through rapid growth
  • Clear communication with engineers, security and compliance partners, customers, and executives

Locations

New York; San Francisco Bay Area; Remote - US

Compensation range is $215,000 - $315,000. All offers also include equity in the form of employee stock options. Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

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Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Salary range(s) for this role
$210,000—$315,000 USD

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