Cloud Compute Engineer - GPU/VM Infra & Bare-Metal

Lambda Inc.

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage
Equity compensation
401(k) plan with company match
Wellness stipend
Commuter stipend
Flexible PTO

Job summary

Lambda is seeking a Compute Software Engineer to build and optimize the foundation of GPU/CPU compute infrastructure. You will develop workflows for bare-metal and VM provisioning, contribute to internal tooling, and collaborate across multiple engineering teams to boost delivery velocity and reliability.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in Go or Python, plus hands-on experience with bare metal and virtualization hardware management.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience with Go (Golang) or Python in production environments.
  • 3+ years of experience with bare metal & virtualization hardware management and configuration.
  • Proficient in Linux environments and debugging issues at the OS, hardware, and networking layers.
  • Able to troubleshoot complex systems and communicate effectively across software, infrastructure, and vendor teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop and maintain software for GPU/CPU compute infrastructure with focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
  • Implement and develop services for baremetal and VM instancing.
  • Develop distributed systems for managing and orchestrating compute resources across various SKU’s.
  • Troubleshoot and debug complex issues in a production and development environment.
  • On-call and incident ownership
  • Collaboration across multiple teams and drive ambiguity in requirements or solutions on RFC’s.

Skills

Go
Python
Bare metal & virtualization
Linux
Debugging
Communication

Tools

KVM
QEMU

Job description

Lambda is seeking a Compute Software Engineer to build and optimize the foundation of GPU/CPU compute infrastructure. You will develop workflows for bare-metal and VM provisioning, contribute to internal tooling, and collaborate across multiple engineering teams to boost delivery velocity and reliability.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in Go or Python, plus hands-on experience with bare metal and virtualization hardware management.

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