Senior AI Cloud Kubernetes & Orchestration Engineer

Lambda; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Lambda is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Mk8s team, helping build a Kubernetes-based AI cloud platform. You will design and scale control plane services, drive automation, and contribute to the orchestration layer for AI workloads run on bare metal.

You will work at the intersection of distributed systems and GPU-accelerated infrastructure, collaborating with internal teams to deliver reliable, high-performance services for real-world AI training and inference workloads.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building scalable control plane services.
• Proficiency with Go or Python for automation.
• Experience with Kubernetes and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable control plane services and Kubernetes controllers.
• Develop GPU-aware orchestration and scheduling components.
• Collaborate on networking solutions and platform services for inference.

Skills

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

GPU scheduling

Tools

CNI (Cilium, Multus)

GPUDirect

InfiniBand/RDMA

Job description

Lambda is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Mk8s team, helping build a Kubernetes-based AI cloud platform. You will design and scale control plane services, drive automation, and contribute to the orchestration layer for AI workloads run on bare metal.

You will work at the intersection of distributed systems and GPU-accelerated infrastructure, collaborating with internal teams to deliver reliable, high-performance services for real-world AI training and inference workloads.