Senior Software Engineer – AI Storage & Kubernetes

Lambda; United States; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure Storage Team in a role that blends distributed systems design with high-performance storage software. You will contribute to a vendor-agnostic control plane, enabling fast, scalable access to file, block, and object storage across multiple platforms.

Join a team building the next generation of AI data infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience in distributed systems engineering.
• Strong understanding of file, block and object storage protocols.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes-driven orchestration and CRD-based workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a vendor-agnostic storage control plane provisioning, scaling and healing.
• Define abstraction layers to hide vendor APIs and telemetry behind a declarative interface.
• Implement reconciliation loops and CRD-based orchestration (Kubernetes controllers and operators).

Skills

Distributed systems

File storage protocols

Block storage protocols

Object storage protocols

Kubernetes controllers

CRD-based orchestration

Tools

Kubernetes

Ceph

MinIO

VAST Data

WEKA

DDN

NetApp

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure Storage Team in a role that blends distributed systems design with high-performance storage software. You will contribute to a vendor-agnostic control plane, enabling fast, scalable access to file, block, and object storage across multiple platforms.

Join a team building the next generation of AI data infrastructure.