Senior Software Enginering - Mk8S/Control Plane
Lambda Labs · San Francisco Office (Fremont St) · San Jose Office (First St) · Bellevue Office
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Infrastructureremotesenior$230k–$346k
At a glance
Highlights
- Shape architecture, reliability and automation of mission-critical global platform.
- Build purpose-built AI cloud for training and inference at massive scale.
- Enable AI breakthroughs for tens of thousands of global customers.
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
A senior systems builder who owns complex projects end-to-end and thrives on reliability at scale. You care about elegant infrastructure for AI and enjoy solving cross-stack challenges.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with a track record of owning significant technical scope within a team
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals: controllers, schedulers, operators, CRDs, CSI, CNI, and extension patterns
- Solid grasp of distributed systems fundamentals — fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and failure handling
- Experience operating the control plane and low-level pieces of large-scale Kubernetes clusters
- Experience with observability at scale: Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, and actionable alerting
- Strong programming skills in Go and Python; ability to collaborate effectively on shared codebases
- Solid knowledge of Linux systems, networking, containers, and cloud infrastructure
- remote policy
- 4 days in office per week, work from home on Tuesday
Lab profile
About Lambda Labs
The Superintelligence Cloud delivering GPU compute infrastructure for AI researchers and enterprises.
What they build
- GPU cloud infrastructure
- On-demand GPU instances
- Managed Kubernetes for AI workloads
Known for
- AI cloud infrastructure at scale
- HPC platform and hardware engineering
- Data center operations and networking
Key facts
- Serves tens of thousands of customers
- Offices in San Francisco, San Jose and Bellevue
- Data center in Quebec City, Canada