Software Development👥 201 employees📍 San Francisco, California, USEst. 2012
Lambda provides computation to accelerate human progress. We're a team of Deep Learning engineers building the world's best GPU cloud, clusters, servers, and workstations. Our products power engineer…
Job Overview
Application 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.
Key Responsibilities
Operate and maintain bare-metal Kubernetes clusters, scaling up to thousands of nodes
Handle cluster degradation, recovery, resizing, and incident response using fleet management tools
Participate in a well-managed on-call rotation for critical incidents
Assist customers with Kubernetes questions, workload integration, storage, and authentication
Work closely with our HPC Ops and Datacenter Ops teams for low-level or cross-functional issues
Use Python and Golang to create tooling and automate the validation of platform quality.
Design, build, and maintain scalable control plane services, operators, and custom controllers for Kubernetes
Develop automation for cluster lifecycle management: provisioning, upgrades, patching, and deletion.
Define and implement SLOs and SLIs for Kubernetes services, workloads, and platform reliability.
Required Qualifications
6+ years of experience in a SRE, operations engineer, or similar role, with a deep knowledge of running Linux clusters and systems
Strong programming skills in Go and Python; experience with GitOps (e.g., ArgoCD), Helm, and Kubernetes operators
Proven experience operating Kubernetes clusters in production environments (on-prem, EKS, GKE, or similar)
Can work either independently with limited direction or as part of a team
Can work with customers during incidents either via tickets, live messaging, or as part of a larger call.
Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, FluentBit, and CI/CD pipelines
Proven experience provisioning Kubernetes using tools such as kubeadm, Cluster API, or similar
Nice-to-Have
Deep Kubernetes expertise: CRDs, CSI, CNI, Kubernetes Operator
Coding experience
Exposure to HPC clusters, AI/ML workloads, or large-scale GPU clusters
Hybrid or multi-cloud Kubernetes environment experience
Contributions to CNCF projects or Kubernetes SIGs
About Lambda
Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast. Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove. We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG. Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers. We 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 that we all actually use.
