Senior SRE – AI Cloud Platform, Kubernetes Expert

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision coverage for in

Wellness and commuter stipends

401k with 2% company match

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Lambda’s Core Cloud Platform seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to boost reliability and scalability of compute provisioning and orchestration across data centers. You will work on Kubernetes, automation, observability, and incident response to lay a foundation for customer AI workloads.

Responsibilities include building monitoring and SLOs, automating remediation, and leading high-severity incidents.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of 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.
• Proficient with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
• CI/CD or GitOps workflows using Argo CD, Flux, Helm, or Kustomize.
• Observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Production-quality tooling in Go or Python.

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/remediation of configuration drift and failed workflows.
• Build safe deployment, rollback, and disaster recovery workflows using IaC and GitOps.
• Lead production incident response, postmortems, and durable corrective actions.
• Collaborate with Compute, Networking, Storage, Security, and Support teams.

Skills

7+ years experience

Kubernetes in production

Kubernetes architecture

Terraform or IaC

CI/CD or GitOps

OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana/Datad

Go/Python tooling

SLIs/SLOs

incident leadership

communication across teams

ownership

Tools

Terraform

Argo CD

Flux

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

Lambda’s Core Cloud Platform seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to boost reliability and scalability of compute provisioning and orchestration across data centers. You will work on Kubernetes, automation, observability, and incident response to lay a foundation for customer AI workloads.

Responsibilities include building monitoring and SLOs, automating remediation, and leading high-severity incidents.