Senior Software Engineer - SDN

Highlights

• Scale Lambda's high-performance multi-tenant cloud network across data centers.
• Deliver predictable networking performance for clients via software-driven solutions.
• Engineer highly available network services with observability and failover.

What they offer

• Generous cash & equity compensation
• 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

Ideal candidate

Experienced infrastructure engineer who thrives on complex distributed systems challenges and building programmable, reliable, scalable cloud networks at the intersection of software and networking.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in systems, infrastructure, or networking-focused domains
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing production-scale Software Defined Networking (SDN) systems, ideally with AWS VPC-like functionality
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining SDN platforms using OpenStack Neutron, OVN, or similar frameworks
• Deep understanding of the Linux networking stack including namespaces, routing, iptables/nftables, virtualization, SR-IOV, and DPDK
• 5+ years of software development experience in C, Go, or Python for network services, tooling, and automation
• Experience with multi-data center and hybrid cloud networking with automation and software-driven control planes
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, Git, and GitOps-driven environments
• Experience deploying, operating, and automating applications on Kubernetes
• Prior on-call, incident response, and reliability tooling experience