Senior Platform Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design and build internal tools and services that reduce friction for engineering teams
• ▹Own and evolve CI/CD infrastructure, not just maintain it
• ▹Build and maintain paved paths: reusable patterns and templates for the right defaults
• ▹Build release engineering tooling that gives engineers confidence and control over how their code ships
• ▹Identify bottlenecks in developer workflows through close collaboration with engineering teams
• ▹Contribute to architectural decisions that shape how 200+ engineers build and ship software
• ▹Participate in an on-call rotation and keep owned systems well-documented, reliable, and observable

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of experience in platform engineering, release engineering, or developer tooling
• ▹Writes production-quality software and treats internal tooling as a product (Go and/or Python preferred)
• ▹Deep experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. Buildkite, GitHub Actions), extending and building on top of them
• ▹Strong foundation in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and cloud environments (AWS or GCP)
• ▹Experience designing agentic workflows that automate parts of the software delivery lifecycle
• ▹Comfortable with ambiguity, energized by defining the problem before solving it

Nice to have

• ▹Experience driving AI tooling adoption across an engineering org
• ▹Led large-scale platform or tooling migrations
• ▹Experience managing AWS environments at scale: accounts, permissions, resource organization
• ▹Familiarity with GPU infrastructure or high-performance computing environments

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive compensation including salary and equity
• ▹Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• ▹401k Plan with 2% company match
• ▹Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
• ▹Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles

About the company

Lambda, the Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers, from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Founded in 2012 with 500+ employees and growing fast, backed by investors including NVIDIA, Andrej Karpathy, and ARK Invest.