Senior SRE: AI Cloud Platform & Kubernetes Expert

Lambda; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Wellness stipend

401k with company match

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Lambda seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to scale and harden its AI cloud platform across data centers. You’ll improve provisioning reliability, implement robust monitoring, and drive incident response and postmortems.

You will define SLIs/SLOs, automate drift remediation, and build disaster recovery workflows using Terraform, Argo CD, and Kubernetes-native tools. Collaboration with multiple teams and mentorship are key aspects of the role.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in site reliability, infrastructure, distributed systems, or production software engineering.
• Deep experience operating Kubernetes in production.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Kubernetes production experience

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD / GitOps

Observability stack

Go or Python

SLIs / SLOs

Incident response leadership

Cross-team communication

Tools

Terraform

Argo CD

Flux

Helm

Kustomize

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Lambda seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to scale and harden its AI cloud platform across data centers. You’ll improve provisioning reliability, implement robust monitoring, and drive incident response and postmortems.

You will define SLIs/SLOs, automate drift remediation, and build disaster recovery workflows using Terraform, Argo CD, and Kubernetes-native tools. Collaboration with multiple teams and mentorship are key aspects of the role.