Engineering Manager, Guard Foundations (Zürich)

Job description

Engineering Manager – Guard Foundations (Zürich) At Lakera, a Check Point company, we're 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 it’s about creating the architectural and operational bedrock that accelerates innovation across all Guard teams. If you’re 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 you’ll do: As an Engineering Manager for Guard Foundations, you will: Lead a team of 10 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 inte...