Lambda

Senior Software Engineer - SDN

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2 months ago

Base Salary

$266k - $395k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build software for Lambda’s high-performance, multi-tenant cloud network.
  • Develop reproducible automation and tooling for network configuration and deployments.
  • Implement and operate SDN services and related control-plane software.
  • Engineer highly available network services with observability, failover, and redundancy features.
  • Develop, integrate, and maintain network monitoring and management tools and services.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident-response tooling and automation.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in systems, infrastructure, or networking-focused domains.
  • Production-scale Software Defined Networking experience, including AWS VPC-like routing, security groups, overlays, or peering functionality.
  • Hands-on experience with SDN platforms such as OpenStack Neutron, OVN, or similar network virtualization frameworks.
  • Deep understanding of Linux networking, including namespaces, routing, iptables or nftables, network virtualization, SR-IOV, and DPDK.
  • 5+ years of software development experience in C, Go, or Python.
  • Experience with multi-data-center and hybrid-cloud networking, automation, software-driven control planes, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment systems, Git, and GitOps environments.
  • Experience with on-call rotations, incident response, network or system reliability tooling, and Kubernetes application deployment and automation.
  • Preferred experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, OVS, VMware NSX, Cisco ACI, Nexus Fabric Controller, Arista CVP, Spine-Leaf or Clos networks, BGP EVPN VXLAN, multi-data-center networks, SD-WAN, DWDM, and next-generation firewall automation.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement requiring presence in the San Francisco, San Jose, or Bellevue office 4 days per week, with Tuesday designated as the work-from-home day.
  • Generous cash and equity compensation.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles.
  • 401(k) plan with a 2% company match for U.S. 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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