Lambda
Senior Network Engineer
$250K–$370K
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) +3 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 12, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
San Jose Office (First St)
San Jose Office (Zanker)
Bellevue Office - Experience
- 10+ years in IT and networking; 6+ years designing and operating production data-center networks.
About the job
Build, deploy, automate, and operate Lambda’s high-performance cloud network and resolve network issues for internal and external customers.
What you'll do
- Deploy and configure networking hardware for new and existing clusters; maintain high availability through monitoring, failover, and redundancy.
- Automate network configuration and operations, and deploy and maintain network monitoring and management tools.
- Support day-to-day operations and on-call rotation; resolve network issues with internal and external customers.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience in IT and networking, including 6+ years designing and operating production data-center networks.
- Led implementation of large production-scale networking projects; experience managing next-generation firewalls and cloud-provider networking.
- Expertise in CLOS/spine-and-leaf fabrics, EVPN/VXLAN, ECMP, BGP, and fast convergence; Linux networking knowledge.
- Strong automation skills with Python and Ansible; experience with network APIs, source control, multiple network equipment vendors, and networking monitoring stacks.
Nice to have
- Knowledge or experience maintaining SDNs; public-cloud network automation with Terraform, Ansible, or Salt.
- Hands-on HPC/AI networking experience, including RoCEv2 or InfiniBand and GPUDirect RDMA concepts.
Pay
$250K – $370K USD base salary
Tools
Fortigate, AWS, GCP, OCI, EVPN/VXLAN, BGP, Linux, Python
AI focus
Network infrastructure for Lambda’s AI cloud; preferred experience includes HPC/AI networking such as RoCEv2, InfiniBand, and GPUDirect RDMA concepts.
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