Lambda
Senior Software Enginering - Mk8S/Control Plane
$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
- 6+ years in software engineering.
About the job
Build and operate Lambda’s managed Kubernetes and orchestration platform for large-scale AI training and inference workloads.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain Kubernetes control plane services, operators, controllers, and cluster-lifecycle automation.
- Build GPU-aware orchestration and inference platform services, including scheduling, autoscaling, and deployment tools.
- Support production through on-call, debugging, and collaboration across networking and infrastructure teams.
What they ask for
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals and experience operating control planes and low-level components of large-scale clusters.
- Solid distributed-systems fundamentals and experience with observability at scale.
- Strong programming skills in Go and Python; solid knowledge of Linux, networking, containers, and cloud infrastructure.
- Track record of owning significant technical scope and delivering work from design through production.
Nice to have
- Experience building or operating managed Kubernetes services or Kubernetes control-plane components.
- Experience with NVIDIA GPU/networking systems, HPC schedulers, high-performance networking, AI/ML storage, or CNCF/Kubernetes projects.
Pay
$230K – $346K USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, Go, Python, Prometheus, Grafana, Cilium, Multus, InfiniBand
AI focus
Build infrastructure for AI training and inference, including GPU-aware orchestration, model serving, inference autoscaling, and AIOps-related platform services.
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