Lambda
Staff Software Engineer - Compute
$314K–$465K
Bellevue Office +2 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Location
- Bellevue Office
San Jose Office (First St)
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) - Experience
- 10+ years; no stated alternative.
About the job
Defines and leads development of a resilient, large-scale control plane for GPU and CPU host provisioning and lifecycle management across Lambda’s compute platform.
What you'll do
- Design and implement a highly available GPU and CPU host and instance lifecycle control plane.
- Guide technical decisions on hardware enablement, firmware, boot methods, and DPU utilization; lead multi-team engineering strategy and mentorship.
- Translate customer requirements into scalable infrastructure capabilities and set engineering standards for mission-critical cloud software.
What they ask for
- 10+ years building compute-control-plane distributed systems for deploying and lifecycle-managing heterogeneous data-center compute platforms at scale.
- Deep expertise in durable execution models and distributed systems for cloud-service provisioning.
- Track record leading large-scale semiconductor hardware enablement and deployment, and deploying new data centers into a global compute platform.
- Proficiency in one or more of C/C++, Rust, Python, or Go; basic knowledge of software-defined networking fundamentals.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of Nvidia AI Factory hardware and software components, including DOCA and CUDA.
- Knowledge of Linux kernel internals, virtualization, kernel-bypass technologies, high-performance networking, storage protocols, or CSP Kubernetes offerings.
Pay
$314K – $465K USD base salary
Tools
C/C++, Rust, Python, Go, DOCA, CUDA, KVM, QEMU
AI focus
Builds GPU-first cloud compute infrastructure for AI workloads; the role focuses on compute provisioning and lifecycle management, not AI model development.
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