Senior Software Engineer - Core Cloud Platform
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) · Remote·$230K–346K
Data Center Business · Core Cloud
Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.
If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.
- Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco/San Jose/Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
About the Role
As a Senior or Staff Software Engineer in Lambda’s Cloud Services Engineering organization, you will build and operate the distributed systems that power Lambda’s GPU cloud. Our teams own platform capabilities across compute control planes, managed Kubernetes, cloud APIs, identity and access, usage metering and billing, capacity and orchestration, reliability, and developer-facing infrastructure.
You will turn large-scale GPU infrastructure into reliable, secure, customer-facing cloud services by building APIs, workflows, stateful controllers, schedulers, and operational tooling. You will be full cycle engineer, owning systems through design, deployment, on-call, incident follow-through, and continuous improvement.
This role is a strong fit for engineers who enjoy cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, operational excellence, and solving ambiguous problems across software and infrastructure boundaries. Senior engineers lead complex work within a team or domain; Staff engineers additionally shape cr