Senior SRE: AI Cloud Platform & Kubernetes

Lambda Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k with company match

Flexible PTO

Wellness stipend

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to improve the reliability, scalability, and operational maturity of our compute provisioning and orchestration across data centers. You will work across Kubernetes, automation, observability, deployment systems, and incident response to build a resilient foundation for customer AI workloads.

You will lead production incident responses, define SLIs/SLOs, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Compute, Networking,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in site reliability, infrastructure, distributed systems, or production software engineering.
• Deep experience operating Kubernetes in production.
• Understand Kubernetes architecture, scheduling, networking, resource management, upgrades, and common failure modes.
• Experience with physical data centers, private cloud, hybrid cloud, or environments without full reliance on managed services.
• Proficiency with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Built CI/CD or GitOps workflows using Argo CD, Flux, Helm, or Kustomize.
• Experience with observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Production-ready tooling in Go, Python, or similar language.
• Understand distributed systems concepts including consistency, retries, idempotency, backpressure, and partial failure.
• Experience defining and operating against SLIs and SLOs.
• Ability to lead during high-severity incidents.
• Tackle recurring issues with engineering and automation.
• Clear communication across teams.
• Strong ownership and low ego.

Responsibilities

• Operate and scale critical platform services across Lambda’s data centers.
• Improve reliability of compute provisioning, Instance lifecycle, and regional orchestration systems.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and tracing for service health and provisioning latency.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and operational readiness standards.
• Automate detection and remediation of drift, failed workflows, and orphaned resources.
• Build safe deployment, rollback, and disaster recovery workflows using IaC and GitOps.
• Design fault-isolation mechanisms to reduce blast radius.
• Lead production incident response, postmortems, and corrective actions.
• Partner with Compute, Networking, Storage, Security, and Support teams.
• Participate in on-call and improve its sustainability through automation.
• Mentor engineers and raise the reliability bar across the organization.

Skills

7+ years SRE/infra

Kubernetes in production

Kubernetes architecture

Terraform

CI/CD / GitOps

OpenTelemetry / Prometheus / Grafana

Go / Python

Distributed systems concepts

SLIs / SLOs

Incident leadership

Communication

Tools

Argo CD

Flux

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to improve the reliability, scalability, and operational maturity of our compute provisioning and orchestration across data centers. You will work across Kubernetes, automation, observability, deployment systems, and incident response to build a resilient foundation for customer AI workloads.

You will lead production incident responses, define SLIs/SLOs, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Compute, Networking,