Network Planning & Design Manager
Lambda· Data Center Business
Hybrid (San Francisco Office (Fremont St)), Hybrid (Bellevue Office)$218k - $290kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Design the connectivity behind Lambda’s next data center, backbone route and customer interconnect. Work with carrier engineers and equipment partners to translate capacity, latency and resilience requirements into infrastructure. Produce designs that move from requirements to delivery and help set future standards.
Responsibilities
- Design the Network
- Develop physical and optical connectivity designs for data centers, points of presence, backbone routes and customer interconnects.
- Translate customer and network requirements into routes, capacity plans, equipment needs and acceptance criteria, working within Network Engineering’s and HPC architecture.
- Compare dark fiber, wavelength, internet transit and interconnection options on latency, resilience, total cost, delivery time and room for expansion.
- Validate route diversity and identify shared conduits, building entrances, fiber extensions and other dependencies that could compromise a design.
- Develop Solutions with Suppliers
- Work with carrier engineering teams to develop routes, extend reach and resolve coverage, site access or capacity constraints.
- Evaluate new and existing suppliers, gather technical proposals and budgetary quotes, and recommend options with clear tradeoffs.
- Work with optical and network equipment partners on alternatives when fiber availability, equipment lead times or cost put a build at risk.
- Give Supply Chain a defined technical scope for negotiations and contracting, including supplier assumptions and unresolved risks.
- Take Designs into Delivery
- Produce a complete design package for Network Engineering approval, then work with Delivery on the build schedule, dependencies and acceptance requirements.
- Resolve design questions during delivery and take revisions back through Network Engineering review when site or supplier conditions change.
- Work with Site Selection and network planning on carrier access, backbone capacity and future expansion before deployment dates are committed.
- Turn lessons from completed projects into reusable designs and standards with Network Engineering.
Qualifications
- Experience designing or developing carrier, cloud or data center connectivity, with designs that have progressed from requirements into delivery.
- Practical knowledge of dark fiber, wavelength services, optical transport and internet interconnection.
- Ability to assess physical route diversity, equipment dependencies and capacity needs beyond what a route map alone shows.
- Experience working directly with carrier engineers, colocation providers or equipment suppliers to solve design constraints.
- Ability to compare supplier options on technical fit, delivery risk and total cost, and explain your recommendation.
- Clear design documentation that engineering reviewers and delivery teams can use.
Skills
Required:Carrier, cloud or data center connectivity designDark fiber and wavelength servicesRoute diversity assessmentStakeholder collaboration with carriers/suppliersTechnical supplier evaluation and cost tradeoffsDesign documentation
Benefits
- 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
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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