Senior Site Reliability Engineer - SDN

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Operate and scale Lambda's multi-tenant cloud networking platform and SDN infrastructure
• ▹Operate and improve Kubernetes-based control plane services and dataplane software running on SmartNICs
• ▹Develop tooling and automation to reduce operational toil and improve reliability
• ▹Collaborate with software, platform and networking teams to improve service reliability and deployment workflows
• ▹Deploy and maintain network monitoring, observability and management tools
• ▹Improve deployment safety through CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, testing and progressive rollouts
• ▹Drive operational excellence through observability, incident management, capacity planning and on-call participation

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering or a similar role
• ▹Experience operating and supporting large-scale distributed systems in production
• ▹Experience with Kubernetes application lifecycle management, upgrades and troubleshooting
• ▹Experience participating in on-call rotations and incident response
• ▹Strong troubleshooting skills across Linux systems, Kubernetes, distributed systems and networking
• ▹Experience with observability platforms, monitoring, alerting and metrics
• ▹Comfort on the Linux command line with a solid understanding of the Linux networking stack
• ▹Experience with multi-datacenter and hybrid cloud environments
• ▹Experience automating infrastructure and operational workflows using Python, Ansible or similar tools
• ▹Experience designing and operating CI/CD and GitOps deployment workflows
• ▹This role requires presence in the San Francisco/San Jose/Bellevue office 4 days per week

Nice to have

• ▹Experience building and operating Software Defined Networks (SDN), including OpenStack Neutron, OVN and OVS
• ▹Experience operating production-scale SDNs in a cloud environment
• ▹Software development experience in Go and/or Python (C is a plus)
• ▹Experience automating infrastructure and network configuration using Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and Ansible
• ▹Deep understanding of the Linux networking stack, SR-IOV and DPDK
• ▹Understanding of the SDN ecosystem and modern cloud networking architectures

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Generous cash and equity compensation
• ▹Health, dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• ▹Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• ▹401k plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• ▹Flexible paid time off that people actually use

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. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity. Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees and growing fast, its investors include NVIDIA, Andrej Karpathy and ARK Invest, among others.