Senior Platform Engineer – Core Infrastructure

Lambda

Senior Platform Engineer developing AI cloud infrastructure solutions for Lambda, enhancing Kubernetes clusters and cloud-native services. Leading incident response and mentoring engineering teams.

Posted 7/21/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $230,000 - $340,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in architecting, deploying, and managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments, with a strong focus on automation, security, and observability. Proven ability to mentor engineers and lead incident response while collaborating with product teams to design scalable cloud-native services.

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Kubernetes InternalsInfrastructure-As-Code (Terraform, Pulumi)Observability Stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)Coding Skills in Go or PythonHelm or Kustomize

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Hard Skills

KubernetesAutomationCI/CD PipelinesNetworkingService MeshesContainer RuntimesGitOpsNetwork PoliciesSecrets ManagementImage Scanning

Soft Skills

MentoringIncident ResponseRoot-Cause Analysis

Tools & Technologies

AWSLambdaTerraformPulumiPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetry

Industry Keywords

Platform EngineeringInfrastructureSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)Cloud-Native Services

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters across AWS and Lambda's bare-metal datacenters.
Build and maintain automation for cluster lifecycle management — provisioning, upgrades, and scaling.
Own the reliability, performance, and security of Kubernetes workloads in production.
Implement observability, logging, and alerting for clusters and critical workloads.
Partner with product teams to design scalable, cloud-native services and CI/CD pipelines.
Set the standards for resource management, networking, and RBAC across the platform.
Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems for platform issues.
Mentor engineers and raise the bar for platform engineering across the org.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years in Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE roles, including running Kubernetes in production at scale.
Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals and day-2 operations (upgrades, scaling, troubleshooting).
Strong with Helm, Kustomize, or similar, and GitOps-based delivery.
Proficient with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent).
Solid grounding in networking, service meshes, and container runtimes.
Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
Strong coding skills in Go or Python for automation and tooling.
Practical security experience: network policies, secrets management, and image scanning.

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