Senior SRE: Managed Kubernetes for AI Cloud Platforms

Lambda; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 356,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401k matching

Flexible PTO

Wellness and commuter stipends

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, seeks an experienced SRE to operate and scale Kubernetes clusters in production, collaborating with HPC Ops and Datacenter Ops. This role requires presence in Bellevue/SF/SJ offices four days per week, with a designated WFH day on Tuesday.

You will design control planes, automate lifecycle tasks, and define SLOs/SLIs while supporting customers during incidents. Proficiency in Go, Python, and Kubernetes tooling is essential.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE/ops or similar role with Linux cluster expertise.
• Strong Go and Python skills; experience with GitOps (ArgoCD) and Helm.
• Production Kubernetes experience (on-prem, EKS, GKE, or similar).
• Able to work independently or in a team; strong customer incident handling and communication.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, FluentBit) and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Operate and scale bare-metal Kubernetes clusters up to thousands of nodes.
• Handle cluster degradation, recovery, resizing, and incident response.
• Participate in a well-managed on-call rotation for critical incidents.
• Assist customers with Kubernetes questions, workload integration, storage, and authentication.
• Collaborate with HPC Ops and Datacenter Ops for cross-functional issues.
• Use Python and Go to create tooling and automate quality validation.
• Design and maintain scalable control plane services, operators, and controllers.
• Develop automation for cluster lifecycle management: provisioning, upgrades, patching, deletion.
• Define and implement SLOs/SLIs for Kubernetes services and platform reliability.

Skills

Go

Python

GitOps

Kubernetes

Incident response

Observability

Tools

ArgoCD

Helm

Kubernetes operators

Prometheus

Grafana

Fluent Bit

Cluster API

kubeadm

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, seeks an experienced SRE to operate and scale Kubernetes clusters in production, collaborating with HPC Ops and Datacenter Ops. This role requires presence in Bellevue/SF/SJ offices four days per week, with a designated WFH day on Tuesday.

You will design control planes, automate lifecycle tasks, and define SLOs/SLIs while supporting customers during incidents. Proficiency in Go, Python, and Kubernetes tooling is essential.