Lambda
Senior Platform Engineer - Core Infrastructure
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
Employer listed it 6 weeks ago · Added 4 days ago
Been open since 6 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
$230,000–$340,000
Location
Hybrid · San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco Office (Fremont St), San Jose Office (First St), Bellevue Office, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco Office (Fremont St), San Jose Office (First St), Bellevue Office, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid" and 4 days per week in the office
What Nomaders makes of it
- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
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 San Francisco,San Jose, or Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
Engineering at Lambda is responsible for building and scaling our cloud offering. Our scope includes the Lambda website, cloud APIs and systems as well as internal tooling for system deployment, management and maintenance.
What You’ll Do
Architect, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters across Lambda's bare-metal datacenters.
Build and maintain automation for cluster lifecycle management: provisioning, upgrades, and scaling.
Similar to SRE-level coding abilities (small scripts, k8s operators/CRDs a plus)
Own the reliability, performance, and security of Kubernetes workloads in production.
Implement observability, logging, and alerting for clusters and critical workloads.
Partner with product teams to design scalable, cloud-native services.
Set the standards for resource management, networking, and RBAC across the platform.
Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems for platform issues.
Mentor junior engineers and raise the bar for platform engineering across the org.
You
5+ years in Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE roles, including running Kubernetes in production at scale.
Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals and day-2 operations (upgrades, scaling, troubleshooting).
Strong with Helm, Kustomize, or similar, and GitOps-based delivery.
Proficient with Linux systems and understanding of system-level operations.
Proficient with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent).
Solid grounding in networking, service meshes, and container runtimes.
Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
Strong coding skills in Go or Python for automation and tooling.
Practical security experience: network policies, secrets management, and image scanning.
Requirements
- ·Practical security experience: network policies, secrets management, and image scanning.
- ·Experience with multi-cluster, multi-cloud, or hybrid environments.
- ·Knowledge of GPU scheduling, HPC workloads, or ML/AI infrastructure.
- ·Experience with workflow orchestration / durable execution frameworks (Temporal, Cadence, or Argo Workflows).
- ·Exposure to cost optimization and capacity planning for large clusters.
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
- ·Equal Opportunity Employer
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Lambda, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 5d ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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