Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, GPU Core & Lifecycle

Lambda Labs; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Wellness stipend

Commuter stipend

401k with company match

Flexible PTO

Equity compensation

Job summary

Lambda is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Core Cloud Platform to build control-plane systems that power the GPU cloud. You will shape APIs, workflows, and orchestration layers spanning compute lifecycle, bare metal, and regional deployments.

This role emphasizes distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, operational excellence, and collaboration with infrastructure, networking, security, and product teams.

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 a similar backend language.
• Experience designing and operating APIs, workflow engines, schedulers, or other distributed systems.
• Understand reliability fundamentals: fault tolerance, idempotency, retries, state machines, failure handling, and production debugging.
• Experience with cloud or cloud-like infrastructure primitives such as compute, networking, storage, identity, or fleet operations.
• Familiar with Linux, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, and service deployment patterns.
• Owned production services, participated in on-call, and improved systems based on operational learnings.
• Care about testability, CI/CD, observability, metrics, logging, alerting, and supportable operations.
• Can translate ambiguous platform problems into concrete APIs, workflows, contracts, and implementation plans.
• Communicate clearly across engineering, product, support, infrastructure teams, and leadership.

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 for 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 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.
• Contribute to architecture, design docs, code reviews, incident follow-through, and mentoring across the team.

Skills

Python/Go

Distributed systems

Backend API design

Cloud infrastructure

Linux/Kubernetes

CI/CD

On-call experience

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Job description

Lambda is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Core Cloud Platform to build control-plane systems that power the GPU cloud. You will shape APIs, workflows, and orchestration layers spanning compute lifecycle, bare metal, and regional deployments.

This role emphasizes distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, operational excellence, and collaboration with infrastructure, networking, security, and product teams.