Senior Software Engineer – Core Cloud Platform

Lambda

Senior Software Engineer building control-plane systems for Lambda’s GPU cloud infrastructure. Collaborating with multiple teams for operational excellence in AI cloud capacity.

Posted 7/28/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $296,000 - $346,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and operating cloud platform services, with a strong focus on backend systems, API design, and operational readiness. Proficient in Python or Go, with a solid understanding of cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.

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Backend DevelopmentAPI DesignCloud InfrastructureProduction DebuggingLinux and Kubernetes

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Hard Skills

PythonGoAPI DesignDistributed SystemsFault ToleranceState MachinesCI/CDObservabilityInfrastructure AutomationCapacity Management

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationMentoringCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesContainersCloud ServicesNetworkingStorage

Industry Keywords

Compute LifecycleOrchestration ServicesOperational ReadinessProduction ServicesIncident Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoKubernetesLinuxPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and operate core cloud platform services for compute lifecycle, bare metal hosts, capacity, placement, and maintenance workflows.
Design reliable APIs, backend services, state machines, and orchestration systems that power Lambda’s GPU cloud.
Work on bare metal lifecycle systems including launch, terminate, restart/reboot, host reclaim, validation, quarantine, and return-to-pool workflows.
Improve deployment, observability, testing, alerting, runbooks, and operational readiness for business-critical control-plane services.
Debug complex production issues across distributed services, infrastructure dependencies, networking, and cloud workflows.
Partner with infrastructure, networking, fleet, security, support, and product teams to define cross-system contracts and deliver end-to-end cloud capabilities.
Contribute to architecture, design docs, code reviews, incident follow-through, and mentoring across the team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree or equivalent working experience.
Have 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backend or distributed systems.
Are strong in Python, Go, or a similar backend/system language.
Have experience designing and operating APIs, workflow engines, schedulers, orchestration services, or other distributed systems.
Understand reliability fundamentals: fault tolerance, idempotency, retries, state machines, failure handling, and production debugging.
Have experience with cloud or cloud-like infrastructure primitives such as compute, networking, storage, capacity management, identity, or fleet operations.
Are comfortable with Linux, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, and service deployment patterns.
Have owned production services, participated in on-call, and improved systems based on operational learnings.
Care about testability, CI/CD, observability, metrics, logging, alerting, and supportable operations.
Can take ambiguous infrastructure problems and drive them to clear designs, implementation plans, and production outcomes.
Communicate clearly across engineering, product, support, infrastructure teams, and leadership.

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