Lambda
Senior Software Engineer - Storage Control Plane
$266K–$395K
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
Bellevue Office - Experience
- 5+ years in software development for storage systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
About the job
Builds and operates a scalable, vendor-agnostic storage control plane for Lambda’s AI and machine-learning infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Design storage provisioning, scaling, healing, and metering across vendors behind a common interface.
- Build Kubernetes-based orchestration for capacity, tenancy, encryption, and placement across data centers and availability zones.
- Own multi-tenant isolation, capacity and placement, and fleet-wide storage observability and performance monitoring.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in software development for storage systems.
- Distributed systems programming experience, including concepts such as fault tolerance and data consistency.
- Strong skills in C, C++, Go, or Python; experience with Linux kernel internals and system-level programming.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI/ML workloads and their storage challenges.
- Production experience with VAST Data, WEKA, DDN, Pure, NetApp, or IBM Storage Scale.
Pay
$266K – $395K USD base salary
Tools
C, C++, Go, Python, Linux, S3, NFS, Kubernetes
AI focus
Develops storage infrastructure that supports AI and machine-learning workloads; AI/ML workload experience is a nice-to-have.
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