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. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU. If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us. \*Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco, San Jose, or Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday. Engineering at Lambda is responsible for building and scaling our cloud offering. Our scope includes the Lambda website, cloud APIs and systems as well as internal tooling for system deployment, management and maintenance. What You’ll Do
- Operate and maintainbare-metal Kubernetes clusters, scaling up to thousands of nodes
- Handle cluster degradation, recovery, resizing, and incident response using fleet management tools
- Participate in awell-managed on-call rotationfor critical incidents
- Assist customers with Kubernetes questions, workload integration, storage, and authentication
- Work closely with our HPC Ops and Datacenter Ops teams for low-level or cross-functional issues
- Use Python and Golang to create tooling and automate the validation of platform quality.
- Design, build, and maintain scalablecontrol plane services, operators, and custom controllersfor Kubernetes
- Developautomation for cluster lifecycle management: provisioning, upgrades, patching, and deletion.
- Define and implementSLOs and SLIsfor Kubernetes services, workloads, and platform reliability.
You
- 6+ years of experience in aSRE,operations engineer, or similar role, with a deep knowledge of running Linux clusters and systems
- Strong programming skills inGo and Python; experience with GitOps (e.g., ArgoCD), Helm, and Kubernetes operators
- Proven experienceoperating Kubernetes clustersin production environments (on-prem, EKS, GKE, or similar)
- Can work either independently with limited direction or as part of a team
- Can work with customers during incidents either via tickets, live messaging, or as part of a larger call.
- Familiarity with observability tools likePrometheus, Grafana, FluentBit, and CI/CD pipelines
- Proven experience provisioning Kubernetes using tools such as kubeadm, Cluster API, or similar
Nice To Have
- Deep Kubernetes expertise: CRDs, CSI, CNI, Kubernetes Operator Coding experience
- Exposure toHPC clusters, AI/ML workloads, or large-scale GPU clusters
- Hybrid or multi-cloud Kubernetes environment experience
- Contributions to CNCF projects or Kubernetes SIGs
Why Join Us
- Work on cutting-edgeManaged Kubernetes platforms for AI/ML workloads
- Influence the platform roadmap andhelp shape operations and reliability best practices
- Collaborate with ahighly skilled engineer
- Opportunity tomentor and growwithin a fast-growing, technology-driven environment
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. About Lambda
- Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
- 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
- We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
- Our values are publicly available:https://lambda.ai/careers
- We offer generous cash & equity compensation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
- Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
Equal Opportunity Employer 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.
