Lambda

Senior Software Engineer - Core Cloud Platform

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1 month ago
Bellevue, WA, USA +2 moreSenior / Staff+
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Base Salary

$230k - $346k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate services, APIs, control planes, and platform capabilities for Lambda’s AI cloud.
  • Solve distributed-systems problems involving state, consistency, concurrency, scheduling, failure recovery, and lifecycle management.
  • Own the full engineering lifecycle, including architecture, implementation, testing, staged rollout, observability, on-call, incident response, and continuous improvement.
  • Improve availability, latency, throughput, efficiency, security, and operability through automation, testing, guardrails, and durable incident follow-up.
  • Collaborate with product, infrastructure, networking, storage, security, and SRE teams to resolve dependencies and deliver customer outcomes.
  • Contribute to technical standards, design and code reviews, mentorship, and cross-team architecture at Staff level.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent evidence of impact building production systems.
  • Depth in at least one general-purpose programming language, with primary work in Go and Python, and the ability to reason about concurrency, error handling, and testing.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating backend services, distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform capabilities at meaningful scale.
  • Practical understanding of system design, data models, APIs, failure modes, performance, and production reliability tradeoffs.
  • Demonstrated ownership of complex work through delivery and operation, including testing, staged rollout, monitoring, incident response, and root-cause improvement.
  • Track record of aligning cross-functional partners and reaching consensus on technical decisions and tradeoffs.
  • Preferred experience includes cloud services or platform infrastructure on AWS, GCP, Azure, or comparable platforms; Kubernetes; schedulers; controllers; cloud control planes; infrastructure automation; durable workflows; event-driven architectures; infrastructure as code; highly available or multi-region systems; and GPU, HPC, or AI/ML workloads.

Benefits

  • The role requires working from the San Francisco, San Jose, or Bellevue office four days per week, with Tuesday designated as the work-from-home day.
  • Generous cash and equity compensation are offered, with the specific salary range not stated.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage are provided for employees and dependents.
  • Wellness and commuter stipends are available for select roles.
  • 401(k) plan with a 2% company match is available to USA employees.
  • Flexible paid time off plan.
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About Lambda

501-1,000 employees

Lambda provides GPU cloud computing and on-prem AI hardware—servers, clusters, and workstations—for teams training and serving large ML models. Its products include NVIDIA H100/A100 instances, managed clusters, and the Lambda Stack software, sold via usage-based cloud pricing and hardware sales. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company serves researchers, startups, enterprises, and hyperscalers.

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