Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - GPU Infrastructure

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Wellness stipend

Commuter stipend

401k with company match

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Core Cloud Platform to build control-plane systems powering its GPU cloud. You will develop APIs, workflows, schedulers, and orchestration services that turn physical GPU infrastructure into reliable, customer-facing cloud capacity.

This role requires in-office presence in San Francisco/San Jose four days per week, with Tuesday as the designated work-from-home day.

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/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.
• Experience with cloud or cloud-like infrastructure primitives such as compute, networking, storage, capacity management, identity, or fleet operations.
• Comfortable 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 take ambiguous infrastructure problems and drive them to clear designs, implementation plans, and production outcomes.
• Communicate clearly across engineering, product, support, infrastructure teams, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Build the control-plane systems that power Lambda’s GPU cloud.
• Develop APIs, workflows, schedulers, orchestration services, and operational surfaces.
• Ensure deployment readiness, reliability, and tooling for production environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across engineering, product, and support.

Skills

Python

Go

Distributed systems

API design

Kubernetes

Linux

On-call experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Core Cloud Platform to build control-plane systems powering its GPU cloud. You will develop APIs, workflows, schedulers, and orchestration services that turn physical GPU infrastructure into reliable, customer-facing cloud capacity.

This role requires in-office presence in San Francisco/San Jose four days per week, with Tuesday as the designated work-from-home day.