Lambda
Senior Platform Engineer - Core Infrastructure
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
PythonGoAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringTemporalMachine LearningAI OrchestrationIncident ResponseCadenceResearch
About the role
- Salary Range Information The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors.
- However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain automation for cluster lifecycle management - provisioning, upgrades, and scaling.
- 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 and CI/CD pipelines.
- Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems for platform issues.
- Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
Nice to have
- 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.
- Contributions to CNCF or Kubernetes open-source projects.
- CKA/CKS certification.
Skills
- Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence.
- One person, one GPU.
- Our scope includes the Lambda website, cloud APIs and systems as well as internal tooling for system deployment, management and maintenance.
Compensation
- The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors.
- However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
- We offer generous cash & equity compensation
Benefits
- We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
Company info
- We offer generous cash & equity compensation
- 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Equal opportunity
- Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer.
- Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
- Equal Opportunity Employer
Visa & Work Authorization
- ational origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law
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