Lambda
Senior Software Engineer - Compute
$266K–$395K
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) +2 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
San Jose Office (First St)
Bellevue Office - Experience
- 5+ years with Go (Golang) or Python in production environments; 5+ years with bare-metal and virtualization hardware management and configuration.
About the job
Build and maintain software and workflows for Lambda’s bare-metal and virtual-machine compute infrastructure, including provisioning, resource orchestration, and reliable delivery for AI and HPC workloads.
What you'll do
- Develop software and services for GPU/CPU compute infrastructure, bare-metal provisioning, and virtual machines.
- Build distributed systems for managing and orchestrating compute resources; troubleshoot production and development issues.
- Own on-call incidents and collaborate across teams on infrastructure workflows and solutions.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of production experience with Go (Golang) or Python.
- 5+ years of experience with bare-metal and virtualization hardware management and configuration.
- Comfort working in Linux and debugging at the OS, hardware, and networking layers.
- Ability to independently troubleshoot complex systems and communicate across software, infrastructure, and vendor teams.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with GPU infrastructure or high-performance computing.
- Experience with Slurm or Kubernetes-based cluster management, public cloud internals, or durable execution platforms like Temporal.
Pay
$266K – $395K (USD, base salary)
Tools
Go (Golang), Python, Linux, Slurm, Kubernetes, KVM, QEMU, Temporal
AI focus
Supports AI workloads by building GPU-first compute infrastructure; no direct AI model development is stated.
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