Senior SRE - Managed Kubernetes for AI Cloud

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision

4-day in-office work week

Wellness stipend

401k with company match

Job summary

Lambda is seeking a Senior SRE/Operations Engineer to build and operate large-scale Kubernetes clusters in production across our AI cloud infrastructure. You will own deployment automation, incident response, and cross-team collaboration with HPC Ops and Datacenter Ops.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years in SRE-like roles, strong Go and Python skills, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, GitOps (ArgoCD), Helm, and cluster provisioning tools.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in an SRE, operations engineer, or similar role with deep knowledge of Linux clusters and systems.
• Strong programming skills in Go and Python; experience with GitOps (e.g., ArgoCD), Helm, and Kubernetes operators.
• Proven experience operating Kubernetes clusters in production environments (on-prem, EKS, GKE, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain bare-metal Kubernetes clusters, scaling up to thousands of nodes.
• Handle cluster degradation, recovery, resizing, and incident response using fleet management tools.
• Participate in a well-managed on-call rotation for critical incidents.
• Assist customers with Kubernetes questions, workload integration, storage, and authentication.
• Work with HPC Ops and Datacenter Ops for cross-functional issues.
• Use Python and Golang to create tooling and automate platform quality.

Skills

Go

Python

GitOps

ArgoCD

Helm

Kubernetes

Incident response

Tools

kubeadm

Cluster API

Prometheus

Grafana

Fluent Bit

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Lambda is seeking a Senior SRE/Operations Engineer to build and operate large-scale Kubernetes clusters in production across our AI cloud infrastructure. You will own deployment automation, incident response, and cross-team collaboration with HPC Ops and Datacenter Ops.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years in SRE-like roles, strong Go and Python skills, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, GitOps (ArgoCD), Helm, and cluster provisioning tools.