Senior Kubernetes Engineer for AI Cloud Platform

Showcify, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401k matching (USA)

Job summary

Lambda is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Managed Kubernetes team, shaping architecture and automation across Kubernetes-based infrastructure powering AI workloads. The role focuses on orchestration, control-plane services, and platform tooling in a high-scale environment.

You’ll work at the intersection of distributed systems, GPU-accelerated computing, and cloud-native infrastructure, collaborating with NVIDIA and internal teams to deliver a world-class managed platform.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of significant scope
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals: controllers, schedulers, CRDs, CSI, CNI
• Solid grasp of distributed systems: fault tolerance and failure handling
• Experience operating control plane and low-level pieces of large-scale Kubernetes clusters
• Experience with observability: Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing
• Strong programming skills in Go and Python; collaboration in shared codebases
• Solid knowledge of Linux systems, networking, containers, and cloud infra
• Take pride in owning and delivering core components of products and platforms

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable control plane services, operators, and custom Kubernetes controllers
• Build GPU-aware orchestration systems and resource scheduling
• Collaborate on networking solutions for AI workloads (CNI, InfiniBand, RDMA, GPUDirect)
• Write resilient systems with fault tolerance and degraded-mode operation
• Develop platform services for inference and autoscaling and multi-model deployment
• Build internal tools and CLIs for ML/AI deployment and monitoring
• Support and debug production issues via on-call rotation

Skills

Kubernetes internals

Distributed systems

Go & Python

Linux systems

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

DCGM

Job description

Lambda is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Managed Kubernetes team, shaping architecture and automation across Kubernetes-based infrastructure powering AI workloads. The role focuses on orchestration, control-plane services, and platform tooling in a high-scale environment.

You’ll work at the intersection of distributed systems, GPU-accelerated computing, and cloud-native infrastructure, collaborating with NVIDIA and internal teams to deliver a world-class managed platform.