Principal Network Architect, AI Cloud Backbone

Lambda; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Wellness stipends

Commuter stipends

401k Plan with company match (USA)

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking an experienced networking leader to own Lambda's multi-year network strategy across fabric, backbone and edge. You will set technical direction, build high-level relationships with enterprise customers, and shape designs with hands-on execution across teams.

You will drive day-to-day operations, mentor engineers, and influence products while maintaining top-tier availability, performance and cost efficiency for a global AI training and inference

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud computing, systems engineering, and large-scale network infrastructure.
• Experience designing, building and operating production-scale data center or cloud networks.
• Experience with software-defined networking and distributed systems for high availability.
• Led large production-scale networking projects across organizations.
• Experience building distributed networks and services at scale.
• Experience with cloud provider networking (AWS, GCP, OCI).
• Deep expertise in data center, backbone and internet protocols and technologies.
• Strong Linux command-line proficiency and understanding of Linux networking stack.
• Automation experience in Python and configuration management; working with network APIs and source control.
• Experience with multiple network gear vendors (Arista, Juniper, Cisco, Cumulus/SONiC, Opengear).
• Experience with networking monitoring stacks (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, gNMI, OTel).
• Excellent written and verbal communication for high-quality decision making and problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year technical strategy for Lambda's network: fabric, backbone and edge.
• Set the technical direction and standards for other engineers.
• Manage high-level technical relationships with enterprise customers on mission-critical projects.
• Influence across teams and apply strong technical judgment in ambiguous situations.
• Resolve cross-organizational ambiguities spanning network, hardware, platform and product teams.
• Be hands-on and dive deep into packet paths, routing, firmware, and code.
• Drive end-to-end technical work from vision to design to delivery.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and hiring processes.
• Operate and participate in day-2 operations and on-call rotations.

Skills

Cloud computing

Large-scale networking

Linux

Python scripting

Network engineering

Vendor networking gear

Monitoring & telemetry

Communication skills

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

gNMI

OpenTelemetry

ClickHouse

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking an experienced networking leader to own Lambda's multi-year network strategy across fabric, backbone and edge. You will set technical direction, build high-level relationships with enterprise customers, and shape designs with hands-on execution across teams.

You will drive day-to-day operations, mentor engineers, and influence products while maintaining top-tier availability, performance and cost efficiency for a global AI training and inference