Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud Infra & Kubernetes

Lambda Labs

United States

On-site

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k plan

Flexible PTO

Wellness stipend

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Lambda is seeking an experienced Platform/SRE engineer to architect, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters at scale across AWS and Lambda's bare-metal datacenters. You will own lifecycle automation, reliability, and security of production workloads, while collaborating with product teams to design scalable cloud-native services and CI/CD pipelines.

Requirements include 5+ years in platform/SRE roles with deep Kubernetes knowledge, experience with GitOps, IaC tools like Terraform/Pulumi, and

Qualifications

5+ years in Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE roles with production Kubernetes.
Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals and day-2 operations (upgrades, scaling, troubleshooting).
Proficient with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent).
Solid grounding in networking, service meshes, and container runtimes.
Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
Strong coding skills in Go or Python for automation and tooling.

Responsibilities

Architect, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters across AWS and Lambda's bare-metal datacenters.
Build and maintain automation for cluster lifecycle management — provisioning, upgrades, and scaling.
Own the reliability, performance, and security of Kubernetes workloads in production.
Implement observability, logging, and alerting for clusters and critical workloads.
Partner with product teams to design scalable, cloud-native services and CI/CD pipelines.
Set the standards for resource management, networking, and RBAC across the platform.
Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems for platform issues.
Mentor engineers and raise the bar for platform engineering across the org.