Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — GPU Compute Orchestration

Lambda Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) plan with company match (USA)

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Lambda’s mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

As a Senior Software Engineer on Lambda’s Core Cloud Platform team, you will build the control-plane systems powering Lambda’s GPU cloud, including APIs, workflows, and orchestration layers across distributed infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent working experience.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backend or distributed systems.
• Strong in Python, Go, or similar backend/system language.
• Experience designing and operating APIs, workflow engines, schedulers, orchestration services, or other distributed systems.
• Understand reliability fundamentals: fault tolerance, idempotency, retries, state machines, failure handling, and production debugging.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate core cloud platform services for compute lifecycle, bare metal hosts, capacity, placement, and maintenance workflows.
• Design reliable APIs, backend services, state machines, and orchestration systems that power Lambda’s GPU cloud.
• Work on bare metal lifecycle systems including launch, terminate, restart/reboot, host reclaim, validation, quarantine, and return-to-pool workflows.
• Improve deployment, observability, testing, alerting, runbooks, and operational readiness for business-critical control-plane services.
• Debug complex production issues across distributed services, infrastructure dependencies, networking, and cloud workflows.
• Partner with infrastructure, networking, fleet, security, support, and product teams to define cross-system contracts and deliver end-to-end cloud capabilities.

Skills

Python

Go

Distributed systems

Backend development

APIs

Cloud infrastructure

System design

Debugging

On-call experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Lambda’s mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

As a Senior Software Engineer on Lambda’s Core Cloud Platform team, you will build the control-plane systems powering Lambda’s GPU cloud, including APIs, workflows, and orchestration layers across distributed infrastructure.