Lambda
Senior Software Engineer - Core Cloud Platform
$230K–$346K
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) +2 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
San Jose Office (First St)
Bellevue Office - Experience
- 7+ years, or equivalent evidence of impact building production systems; preferred: 2+ years in cloud services/platform infrastructure or large-scale production systems.
About the job
Build and operate distributed systems, APIs, control planes, and platform capabilities powering Lambda’s GPU cloud.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate cloud services and solve distributed-systems problems involving state, scheduling, concurrency, and failure recovery.
- Own the engineering lifecycle from architecture and implementation through rollout, observability, on-call, and continuous improvement.
- Improve reliability and operational practices while collaborating across teams; contribute to technical standards, reviews, and mentorship.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent evidence of impact building production systems.
- Depth in at least one general-purpose programming language, with ability to reason about concurrency, error handling, and testing.
- Experience designing, building, and operating backend services, distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform capabilities at meaningful scale.
- Track record of owning complex work through delivery and operation, and aligning cross-functional partners around decisions and tradeoffs.
Nice to have
- 2+ years building cloud services or platform infrastructure, or operating large-scale production systems on AWS, GCP, Azure, or a comparable cloud platform.
- Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, schedulers, controllers, or cloud control-plane systems.
Pay
$230K – $346K (USD, base salary)
Tools
Go, Python, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes
AI focus
Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate exploration and implementation, while independently verifying correctness, security, and maintainability.
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