Senior Software Engineer - Core Cloud Platform

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Responsibilities

• ▹Build and operate core cloud platform services for compute lifecycle, bare metal hosts, capacity, placement, and maintenance workflows
• ▹Design reliable APIs, backend services, state machines, and orchestration systems
• ▹Work on bare metal lifecycle systems: launch, terminate, restart/reboot, host reclaim, validation, quarantine, return-to-pool
• ▹Improve deployment, observability, testing, alerting, runbooks, and operational readiness
• ▹Debug complex production issues across distributed services, infrastructure, and networking
• ▹Partner with infrastructure, networking, fleet, security, support, and product teams
• ▹Contribute to architecture, design docs, code reviews, incident follow-through, and mentoring

Requirements

• ▹Bachelor's degree or equivalent working experience
• ▹6+ years professional software engineering experience in production backend/distributed systems
• ▹Strong in Python, Go, or similar backend/systems language
• ▹Experience designing and operating APIs, workflow engines, schedulers, or orchestration services
• ▹Understanding of reliability fundamentals: fault tolerance, idempotency, retries, state machines, failure handling
• ▹Experience with cloud or cloud-like infrastructure primitives (compute, networking, storage, capacity, identity, fleet ops)
• ▹Comfortable with Linux, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, service deployment
• ▹Owned production services, on-call experience, operational improvements
• ▹Care about testability, CI/CD, observability, metrics, logging, alerting
• ▹Ability to drive ambiguous infrastructure problems to clear designs and implementation
• ▹Clear communication across engineering, product, support, infrastructure, and leadership

Nice to have

• ▹Experience building cloud control planes, compute platforms, schedulers, or orchestration systems
• ▹Experience with bare metal, GPU infrastructure, HPC, Kubernetes, Slurm, or large-scale AI/ML infrastructure
• ▹Host lifecycle, provisioning, validation, firmware, BMC/Redfish, fleet management experience
• ▹Familiarity with Temporal, Airflow, event-driven systems, or durable workflow orchestration
• ▹Networking experience with VPCs, firewalls, SDN, InfiniBand, routing
• ▹Security-minded engineering: identity, authorization, audit logging, attestation, tenant isolation

Soft skills

What we offer

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

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.