Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud Foundations
Lambda· Data Center Business
Hybrid (San Francisco Office (Fremont St)), Hybrid (San Jose Office (First St)), Hybrid (Bellevue Office)$255k - $340kFull-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Senior role focused on building and operating Lambda's cloud foundations—account, access, network, and governance—enabling self-service for hundreds of engineers while enforcing least-privilege, policy, and observability.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the IaC execution platform (Terraform, Atlantis): how infrastructure changes are proposed, reviewed, and applied across the company
- Design and operate Lambda's cloud account, access, and IAM structure: organizational hierarchy, provisioning, and permission models
- Own the cloud network foundation: VPCs, Transit Gateway, and DNS, including the patterns other teams build on
- Drive AWS cloud governance: tagging standards, compliance guardrails, and cost visibility and accountability
- Implement least-privilege access and compliance automation in line with company requirements and policies, replacing manual access and provisioning work with self-service
- Help shape how this new team operates: its scope, priorities, and service boundaries
- Participate in an on-call rotation and keep the systems you own well-documented, reliable, and observable
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud platform, or cloud security engineering, or a closely related discipline
- Deep experience managing AWS at scale: multi-account organizations, IAM and permission boundaries, SCPs, and resource organization
- Strong foundation in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and the tooling around it: modules, state management, and automated plan/apply workflows
- Solid cloud networking fundamentals: VPC design, transit and hybrid connectivity, DNS, and edge/CDN configuration
- Comfortable writing the automation and tooling that runs the foundation (Go and/or Python), and treating it as a product
- Use AI tools as a natural part of how you work, and hold their output to the same bar as your own: you review it, verify it, and own what ships
- Build for the many, not for one team or one use case
- Comfortable with ambiguity and clarifying ownership
- Distill the right problem out of the noise: ask the why behind the why
- Own what you build past the point it ships: monitor it, measure whether it actually helped, and act on what you learn
- Sweat the details and aren't satisfied until things run smoothly
Skills
Required:AWS at scaleTerraformGo/PythonNetworking
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 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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