Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage
Lambda — San Francisco, California, United States · Remote · Senior
Role description
Role Overview
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage will own the reliability, performance, and capacity health of Lambda's production storage fleet across all data centers, operating behind Lambda's own software-defined data plane. The team is responsible for building and maintaining monitoring, dashboards, and alerting for storage performance, capacity, and hardware failures. The engineer will investigate and resolve storage-related incidents using deep telemetry, logs, and performance profiling.
What You Will Do
The engineer will build and maintain monitoring, dashboards, and alerting for storage performance, capacity, and hardware failures. They will also automate ticketing, escalation, and incident-response workflows, design and maintain self-healing automation for common failure modes, and implement CI/CD pipelines for storage automation and tooling.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The engineer will participate in an on-call rotation supporting Lambda's storage fleet, with a focus on driving down MTTR and building the automation that keeps you from getting paged for the same thing twice. The engineer will have 5+ years of experience operating Linux systems in production or HPC environments, with hands-on storage experience at scale on scale-out or software-defined platforms.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience operating Linux systems in production or HPC environments
- Hands-on storage experience at scale on scale-out or software-defined platforms
- Strong incident-response instincts
- Working experience with monitoring and logging platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Datadog, or SumoLogic
- Working experience with Kubernetes (GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD, Helm/Kustomize) and hands-on troubleshooting
- Working experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, BuildKite), containerization (Docker/Podman), and systems programming in Python or Go
- Working experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Solid understanding of core storage protocols across file (NFS, SMB), object (S3), block (NVMe-oF/TCP), and structured (vector DB, SQL) storage
Benefits
- Annual salary range
- 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