Senior Platform Engineer – Kubernetes & Cloud Infra

Lambda; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision coverage

401k with company match

Wellness and commuter stipends

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking an experienced Platform/SRE to architect, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters at scale across multiple environments. You will own reliability, performance, and security of workloads while building automation for lifecycle management and observability.

Join a team that partners with product to design cloud-native services, enforces strong RBAC, and drives best practices across the platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE roles, including running Kubernetes in production at scale.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals and day-2 operations (upgrades, scaling, troubleshooting).
• Proficient with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps delivery (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).

Responsibilities

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

Go/Python

GitOps

Terraform

Observability

Networking

Security

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Tools

Helm

Kustomize

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Argo

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking an experienced Platform/SRE to architect, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters at scale across multiple environments. You will own reliability, performance, and security of workloads while building automation for lifecycle management and observability.

Join a team that partners with product to design cloud-native services, enforces strong RBAC, and drives best practices across the platform.