Senior Site Reliability Engineer - SDN
Lambda· Data Center Business
Hybrid (San Francisco Office (Fremont St)), Hybrid (San Jose Office (First St)), Hybrid (Bellevue Office)$267k - $312kFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Senior Site Reliability Engineer specializing in multi-tenant cloud networking and SDN infrastructure for Lambda’s AI cloud.
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, postmortems, and participation in the on-call rotation
Qualifications
- Have 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or a similar role
- Have experience operating and supporting large-scale distributed systems in production
- Have experience with Kubernetes application lifecycle management, upgrades, troubleshooting, and production operations
- Have experience participating in on-call rotations and incident response
- Have strong troubleshooting skills across Linux systems, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and networking
- Have experience with observability platforms, monitoring, alerting, and metrics
- Are comfortable working on the Linux command line and have a solid understanding of the Linux networking stack
- Have experience with multi-datacenter and hybrid cloud environments
- Have experience automating infrastructure and operational workflows using Python, Ansible, or similar tools
- Have experience designing and operating CI/CD and GitOps deployment workflows
Skills
Required:Site Reliability EngineeringKubernetesLinuxNetworking
Benefits
- 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
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Lambda
The Superintelligence Cloud
The gigawatt-scale AI GPU Cloud built for superintelligence. Featuring on-demand & reserved cloud NVIDIA HGX B200, B300, GB200, GB300 and H200 GPUs for AI training & inference.
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