Kubernetes Platform Engineer for Scalable AI Cloud

Lambda Labs; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash & equity compensation

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Wellness stipend

401k with company match

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Lambda Labs, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure, seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable Kubernetes control plane services and automation for cluster lifecycle management. You'll create internal tools and CLIs to deploy inference services and define SLOs/SLIs for the platform.

The role requires strong distributed systems and full-stack skills, with cloud-native experience and a history of contributing to open-source projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 5 years of progressive experience as Software Engineer or related occupation.
• At least 1 year in distributed systems software development for networking infra.
• Full-stack development across Python, Go, Java, or C/C++.
• Cloud-native tech experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Etcd, and gRPC.
• Development and CI/CD with Gerrit, Git, Jenkins.
• Experience with open-source projects and Kubernetes operators, CRDs, CSI, CNI.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable control plane services, operators, and custom controllers for Kubernetes.
• Develop automation for cluster lifecycle management (provisioning, upgrades, patching, deletion).
• Develop internal tools, APIs, and CLIs to deploy and monitor inference services.
• Write resilient systems for large-scale distributed environments.
• Define and implement SLOs and SLIs for Kubernetes services, workloads, platform.
• Investigate cluster problems and document findings.

Skills

Distributed systems

Full-stack development

Languages: Python/Go/Java/C/C++

Cloud-native tooling

Open-source contributions

Kubernetes tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering/CS/EE

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Etcd

gRPC

Gerrit

Git

Jenkins

Job description

Lambda Labs, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure, seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable Kubernetes control plane services and automation for cluster lifecycle management. You'll create internal tools and CLIs to deploy inference services and define SLOs/SLIs for the platform.

The role requires strong distributed systems and full-stack skills, with cloud-native experience and a history of contributing to open-source projects.