Senior Platform Engineer

Lambda

full-time

Posted on: 9/25/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Washington

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💰 $267,000 - $401,000 per year

Senior

AWSCloudGoGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

Architect, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters across AWS, OCI, and on-prem datacenters
Build and maintain automation for cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, and scaling
Own the reliability, performance, and security of Kubernetes workloads
Implement observability, logging, and alerting for clusters and critical workloads
Partner with developers to design scalable, cloud-native services and CI/CD pipelines
Define and enforce best practices for resource usage, networking, and RBAC
Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems for cluster-related issues
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal platform engineering standards

5+ years of experience in Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE roles
Expert knowledge of Kubernetes internals and operational practices
Proven experience running Kubernetes clusters in production at scale
Strong skills with Helm, Kustomize, or similar deployment tooling
Solid understanding of networking, service meshes, and container runtimes
Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
Familiarity with security best practices (network policies, secrets management, image scanning)
Strong coding skills in Go, Python, or similar for automation
Comfort with GitOps workflows and CI/CD integration
Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to operate in complex environments
Willingness and ability to work onsite at San Francisco, San Jose, or Seattle office 4 days per week
Experience with multi-cluster, multi-cloud, or hybrid environments (nice to have)
Knowledge of GPU scheduling, HPC workloads, or ML/AI infrastructure (nice to have)
Exposure to cost optimization and capacity planning for large clusters (nice to have)
Contributions to CNCF or Kubernetes open-source projects (nice to have)