Senior Software Engineer - AI Cloud Networking & SDN

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

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence.

One person, one GPU. We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to design and build the next generation of our network platform, developing systems, services, and automation that power our

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in systems, infrastructure, or networking-focused domains.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing production-scale Software Defined Networking (SDN) systems, ideally with AWS VPC-like functionality (e.g., routing, security groups, overlays, peering).
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining SDN platforms using technologies such as OpenStack Neutron, OVN, or similar network virtualization frameworks.
• Deep understanding of the Linux networking stack, including namespaces, routing, iptables/nftables, network virtualization, SR-IOV, and DPDK, with the ability to reason from a systems programming perspective.
• Proficiency with the Linux command line and strong understanding of networking concepts from a software engineering viewpoint.
• Experience working with multi-data center and hybrid cloud networking environments, with an emphasis on automation and software-driven control planes.
• 5+ years of so

Responsibilities

• Design and build software to scale Lambda’s high performance multi-tenant cloud network.
• Develop reproducible automation and tooling for network configuration and deployments.
• Implement and operate Software Defined Networking services and related control-plane software.
• Engineer highly available network services through observability, failover, and redundancy features.
• Deliver predictable networking performance for clients via software-driven network engineering solutions.
• Develop, integrate, and maintain network monitoring and management tools and services.
• Participate in on-call and contribute to incident response tooling and automation.

Skills

SDN design

Linux networking

Automation

On-call tooling

Tools

OpenStack Neutron

OVN

DPDK

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence.

One person, one GPU. We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to design and build the next generation of our network platform, developing systems, services, and automation that power our