Lambda
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud Foundations
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) · Senior
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About the role
- This is a new team, and this role helps define it.
- Working closely with Security, GRC, IT, and the engineering teams that consume the foundation, this position turns policy into working controls and paved paths, so that hundreds of engineers can safely self-serve instead of filing requests.
- 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
- Own and evolve the IaC execution platform (Terraform, Atlantis): how infrastructure changes are proposed, reviewed, and applied across the company
- Design and operate Lambda's cloud account, access, and IAM structure: organizational hierarchy, provisioning, and permission models
- Own the cloud network foundation: VPCs, Transit Gateway, and DNS, including the patterns other teams build on
- Drive AWS cloud governance: tagging standards, compliance guardrails, and cost visibility and accountability
- Implement least-privilege access and compliance automation in line with company requirements and policies, replacing manual access and provisioning work with self-service
- Participate in an on-call rotation and keep the systems you own well-documented, reliable, and observable
- 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
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud platform, or cloud security engineering, or a closely related discipline
Nice to have
- Experience implementing controls for a compliance program (SOC 2, ISO 27001) without turning it into manual toil
- Cloud cost management and FinOps experience
- Hands-on experience with Azure, GCP, or OCI alongside AWS
- 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Skills
- Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence.
- One person, one GPU.
- Comfortable writing the automation and tooling that runs the foundation (Go and/or
- Comfortable with ambiguity and clarifying ownership
- Sweat the details and aren't satisfied until things run smoothly
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
- Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers.
- Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers.
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.
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