San Francisco Office (Fremont St); Bellevue Office; San Jose Office (First St) Hybrid Full-time USD 266,000 – 395,000 / year

Lambda is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Managed Kubernetes

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable control plane services, operators, and custom Kubernetes controllers; develop automation in Go/Python for end-to-end cluster lifecycle management — provisioning, upgrades, patching, and deletion
  • Build GPU-aware orchestration systems, working within the platform architecture to support GPU scheduling and resource allocation
  • Partner with the Network team on networking solutions for AI workloads: CNI integration (Cilium, Multus), high-performance fabrics (InfiniBand, RoCE), RDMA, and GPUDirect
  • Write resilient systems that handle failure gracefully — timeouts, retries, backoff, and degraded-mode operation — across large-scale distributed environments
  • Develop platform services for inference: model serving infrastructure, autoscaling based on inference load, and multi-model deployment patterns
  • Build internal tools and CLIs that let ML/AI teams deploy and monitor their own inference services
  • Support and debug production issues through on-call rotation

Benefits

  • Generous cash & equity compensation
  • 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

Compensation

Generous cash & equity compensation

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — San Francisco, San Jose, Bellevue

Other

  • 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.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer
Job Details
Location San Francisco Office (Fremont St); Bellevue Office; San Jose Office (First St)
Work mode Hybrid
Employment Full-time
Salary USD 266,000 – 395,000 / year
Department Data Center Business
Category other
Posted a month ago
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Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. The company builds and scales AI cloud infrastructure, including high-performance storage, networking, and compute systems for AI training and inference. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence.
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