Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Observability

Lambda

Senior Site Reliability Engineer deploying observability platforms for AI cloud infrastructure at Lambda. Collaborating with engineering teams to enhance product reliability and system monitoring.

Posted 5/9/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $240,000 - $401,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Deploy and operate observability platforms for logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.
Automate the deployment and operation of these observability systems.
Set up monitoring for modern AI/HPC cluster infrastructure.
Develop platform software to make observability adoptable and improve product reliability.
Lead members of other engineering teams in development of solutions for their monitoring challenges.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with 3+ years in Go
Have 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering practices
Possess proven understanding of Observability tools and practices
Have experience with application deployment and monitoring using Kubernetes
Have strong experience with modern devops practices
Expect quality and reliability from the solutions you build
Enjoy collaborating across team boundaries to help our engineering teams meet their observability needs

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoSite Reliability EngineeringObservability toolsKubernetesDevOps practicesSoftware developmentMonitoringAutomationDistributed tracingLogging

Soft Skills

CollaborationLeadershipProblem-solvingQuality assuranceReliability focus