Senior Networking Engineer

Lambda

full-time

Posted on: 9/16/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Washington

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💰 $203,000 - $417,000 per year

Senior

AnsibleCloudFirewallsGrafanaLinuxPrometheusPythonSaltStackSplunkTerraform

About the role

Help to build Lambda’s cloud networking infrastructure
Contribute to automation of network configuration
Be part of operations and on-call for networking
Work with internal and external customers to resolve network-related issues
Deploy and configure networking hardware, switches, and firewalls for new clusters
Deploy and maintain network monitoring and management tools

Have 3+ years of experience in IT space, and 1+ in managing networks
Experience with virtualization technology, like ESXi, KVM, and VMs management
Experience with FW policies configurations
Experience with multi-data center networks and hybrid cloud networks
Understanding of BGP EVPN VXLAN networks, Spine and Leaf (Clos) network topology
Comfortable on the Linux command line, and understanding of the Linux networking stack and internals
Python and/or bash programming experience
Experience with git or similar source control systems
Experience with Monitoring/Observability tools like Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus (nice to have)
Experience building and maintaining Software Defined Networks (SDN) (nice to have)
Experience with HPC networking, such as Infiniband or RoCE (nice to have)
Experience automating network configuration within public clouds, with tools like Terraform/Ansible/Salt (nice to have)
Experience with Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) (nice to have)
Can participate in a production networking on-call rotation (incl. after-hours windows)
Can work in data centers as needed (rack/stack/console/OOB) and follow ESD & safety procedures
Comfortable traveling occasionally to data centers/customer sites, when required
Are able to work legally in the United States
Willingness to be present in San Francisco/San Jose/Seattle office location 4 days per week (designated work from home day Tuesday)