Lambda
Senior Software Engineer - Fleet Engineering
$230K–$395K
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) +2 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 11, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
San Jose Office (Zanker)
Bellevue Office - Experience
- 5+ years of engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate software and automation for provisioning, configuring, validating, and maintaining Lambda’s production compute fleet and datacenter infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Develop fleet lifecycle, machine configuration, and cluster-state production systems.
- Automate hardware provisioning, deployment, validation, and customer hand-off; support new hardware and datacenter site bring-up.
- Maintain fleet health and consistency, investigate hardware and firmware issues, and collaborate across engineering and operations teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of engineering experience.
- Fluency in Python, Go, or similar, with comfort in APIs, distributed systems, and automation pipelines.
- Confident Linux skills and ability to debug across OS, hardware, and networking layers.
- Production systems ownership with real SLAs; ability to lead technical design and deliver medium-to-large features.
Nice to have
- Experience in AI/ML infrastructure or hyperscale compute environments.
- Experience with bare-metal provisioning and lifecycle management, such as PXE, Redfish, IPMI, BMC, DHCP, and DNS.
Pay
$230K – $395K USD annual base salary
Tools
Python, Go, Linux, PXE, Redfish, IPMI, BMC, Ansible
AI focus
The role builds infrastructure for AI cloud compute; preferred experience includes AI/ML infrastructure and using AI-assisted development tools for code generation, debugging, test development, and documentation.
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