Senior Software Engineer - Core Cloud Platform

Role description

Role Overview

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.

What You Will Do

Design, build, and operate services, APIs, control planes, and platform capabilities that power Lambda’s AI cloud. Solve distributed-systems problems involving state, consistency, concurrency, scheduling, failure recovery, and safe lifecycle management.

Why It Might Be a Fit

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 cross-team architecture and make other teams more effective.

Requirements

• 7 or more years of professional software engineering experience
• Depth in at least one general-purpose language, we work primarily in Go and Python
• Experience designing, building, and operating backend services, distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform capabilities at meaningful scale
• Practical understanding of system design, data models, APIs, failure modes, performance, and the tradeoffs required to run reliable software in production
• A track record of owning complex work through delivery and operation, including testing, staged rollout, monitoring, incident response, and root-cause improvement
• Proven track record of aligning cross functional partners and gaining consensus around decisions and tradeoffs

Benefits

• 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