Senior Platform Engineer — Cloud Kubernetes & Automation Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental vision

401k match

5 sick days and 12 paid holidays

Flexible PTO

Parental, medical, caregiver leave

Job summary

Lambda is seeking a senior Platform/SRE engineer to architect and run Kubernetes at scale across AWS and bare-metal data centers. You will own cluster reliability, performance, security, and automation, partnering with product teams to deliver scalable cloud-native services and robust CI/CD pipelines.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in platform or SRE roles, deep Kubernetes knowledge, Go or Python scripting ability, and strong networking/security fundamentals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE roles, incl. running Kubernetes in production at scale.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals and day-2 operations (upgrades, scaling, troubleshooting).
• Strong coding skills in Go or Python for automation and tooling.
• Experience with multi-cluster, multi-cloud, or hybrid environments.
• Solid grounding in networking, service meshes, and container runtimes.
• Practical security experience: network policies, secrets management, and image scanning.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters across AWS and Lambda’s datacenters.
• Build and maintain automation for cluster lifecycle management — provisioning, upgrades, and scaling.
• Own 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 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.

Skills

Kubernetes

Observability

Terraform

Pulumi

Go

Python

GitOps

Multi-cluster

Cost optimization

Security best practices

Networking

RBAC

Tools

Helm

Kustomize

Argo Workflows

Temporal

Cadence

Job description

Lambda is seeking a senior Platform/SRE engineer to architect and run Kubernetes at scale across AWS and bare-metal data centers. You will own cluster reliability, performance, security, and automation, partnering with product teams to deliver scalable cloud-native services and robust CI/CD pipelines.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in platform or SRE roles, deep Kubernetes knowledge, Go or Python scripting ability, and strong networking/security fundamentals.