Senior Software Engineer - Core Cloud Platform
Lambda· Data Center Business
Hybrid (San Francisco Office (Fremont St)), Hybrid (San Jose Office (First St)), Hybrid (Bellevue Office)$255k - $346kFull-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Senior/Staff Software Engineer role designing, building, and operating distributed backend services and platform capabilities powering Lambda’s GPU cloud. Focused on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, APIs, and scale, with ownership across full engineering lifecycle and cross-team collaboration.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Own the full engineering lifecycle: problem framing, architecture, implementation, testing, rollout, observability, on-call, and continuous improvement.
- Improve system availability, latency, throughput, efficiency, security, and operability as Lambda grows by orders of magnitude.
- Turn incidents and near misses into durable engineering improvements, including better automation, testing, guardrails, and backstops.
- Work across product, infrastructure, networking, storage, security, and SRE teams to resolve dependencies and deliver the right outcome for customers.
- Use AI-assisted development tools with judgment: accelerate exploration and implementation while independently verifying correctness, security, and maintainability.
- Contribute to technical standards, design and code reviews, and mentorship; at Staff level, lead cross-team architecture and raise the technical ceiling of the organization.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent evidence of impact building production systems.
Skills
Required:Backend services design and implementationGeneral-purpose programming languagesSystem design and production readinessCross-functional collaboration
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 Oct 15, 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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