Lambda

Software Engineer - Data Center Tooling

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1 day ago
Bellevue, WA, USA +2 moreSenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$230k - $340k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and own systems that digitally capture physical data center hardware and maintain accurate host and rack inventory state.
  • Design conflict-resolution and precedence logic across vendor manifests, on-site observations, and system telemetry.
  • Build validation, attestation, and constraint tooling for inventory, physical topology, cabling, rack composition, and containment.
  • Lead the design of rack- and asset-level scanning workflows, including provisional and verified states and data provenance tracking.
  • Partner with Data Center Operations, Engineering, and vendors to define physical data capture requirements and replace manual reconciliation with automation.
  • Monitor production capture and validation pipelines, maintain SLAs, and resolve physical/logical state drift.
  • Lead technical design, drive alignment, ship medium-to-large features, and mentor peers.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of engineering experience.
  • Fluency in Python, Go, or a similar language.
  • Experience with APIs, distributed systems, automation pipelines, asynchronous workloads, job schedulers, and task queues.
  • Experience owning production systems with real SLAs.
  • Knowledge of React or a similar JavaScript frontend and PostgreSQL or a similar database.
  • Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes and developing mission-critical user interfaces.
  • Comfort with data and ETL pipelines.
  • Ability to lead technical design, influence cross-functional technical decisions, and mentor peers.

Benefits

  • The position requires working from the San Francisco, San Jose, or Bellevue office four days per week; the designated work-from-home day is Tuesday.
  • Generous cash and equity compensation is offered, with no specific amount 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 for 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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