Software Engineer - Managed Kubernetes

Lambda Labs; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash & equity compensation

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Wellness stipend

401k with company match

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Lambda Labs, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure, seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable Kubernetes control plane services and automation for cluster lifecycle management. You'll create internal tools and CLIs to deploy inference services and define SLOs/SLIs for the platform.

The role requires strong distributed systems and full-stack skills, with cloud-native experience and a history of contributing to open-source projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 5 years of progressive experience as Software Engineer or related occupation.
• At least 1 year in distributed systems software development for networking infra.
• Full-stack development across Python, Go, Java, or C/C++.
• Cloud-native tech experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Etcd, and gRPC.
• Development and CI/CD with Gerrit, Git, Jenkins.
• Experience with open-source projects and Kubernetes operators, CRDs, CSI, CNI.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable control plane services, operators, and custom controllers for Kubernetes.
• Develop automation for cluster lifecycle management (provisioning, upgrades, patching, deletion).
• Develop internal tools, APIs, and CLIs to deploy and monitor inference services.
• Write resilient systems for large-scale distributed environments.
• Define and implement SLOs and SLIs for Kubernetes services, workloads, platform.
• Investigate cluster problems and document findings.

Skills

Distributed systems

Full-stack development

Languages: Python/Go/Java/C/C++

Cloud-native tooling

Open-source contributions

Kubernetes tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering/CS/EE

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Etcd

gRPC

Gerrit

Git

Jenkins

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable control plane services, operators, and custom controllers for Kubernetes.
• Develop automation for cluster lifecycle management (provisioning, upgrades, patching, and deletion).
• Develop internal tools, APIs, and command-line interfaces (CLIs) that enable customers and ML and AI teams to deploy and monitor inference services effectively.
• Write resilient systems that gracefully handle failure across large-scale distributed environments.
• Define and implement Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service-Level Indicators (SLIs) for Kubernetes services, workloads, and the platform.
• Drive into systems at a low level to solve unique cluster problems and write up the findings.
• Assist customers with high-level Kubernetes questions and integrations with applications, storage, and authentication.
• Assist with initial cluster buildouts and validation to help identify failed hardware before customer delivery.
• Work closely with our HPC Ops and Datacenter Ops teams on issues that require lower-level expertise or cross-functional solutions.
• Participate in a well-managed, sustainable on-call rotation.

Some telecommuting permitted (hybrid).

Qualifications

• Have a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• Have 5 years of progressive experience as Software Engineer or related occupation
• Must have at least 1 year of prior work experience in each of the following:
  • Distributed systems software development as applied to computer networking infrastructure.
  • Full-stack development in multiple software languages including Python, Go, Java, or C/C++.
  • Software development using cloud-native technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Etcd, and gRPC.
  • Development and CI/CD workflow using tools including Gerrit, Git, and Jenkins.
  • Working with and developing open-source projects.
  • Tuning Kubernetes configuration and working with Operators, CRDs, CSI, and CNI.

Benefits

• We offer generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.