Lambda
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage
$267K–$356K
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 10, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
San Jose Office (First St) - Experience
- 5+ years
About the job
Operates and improves the reliability, performance, and capacity of Lambda’s production storage fleet across data centers.
What you'll do
- Monitor storage performance, capacity, and hardware health; investigate and resolve incidents.
- Build automation for incident response, self-healing, storage deployment, and capacity management.
- Implement CI/CD for storage tooling and participate in the storage fleet on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- 5+ years operating Linux systems in production or HPC environments, with hands-on storage experience at scale.
- Hands-on experience operating Software-Defined Storage platforms at scale and integrating their management and data-plane APIs.
- Working experience with monitoring and logging platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling, containerization, and Python or Go.
- Working experience with Infrastructure as Code and understanding of file, object, block, and structured storage protocols.
Nice to have
- Experience with VAST, Weka, NetApp, Dell PowerScale, GPFS, or Lustre.
- Experience with Kubernetes CSI drivers, SR-IOV, KVM/QEMU, GPUDirect Storage, RDMA, InfiniBand, or RoCE.
Pay
$267K – $356K USD base salary
Tools
Linux, CEPH, Lustre, GPFS, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes, Terraform
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