Lambda
Staff Software Engineer - Managed Kubernetes
$314K–$465K
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) +2 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
San Jose Office (First St)
Bellevue Office - Experience
- 10+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, or SRE, with at least 5 years focused on Kubernetes at scale.
About the job
Provides technical leadership in building Lambda’s bare-metal Managed Kubernetes and related orchestration services for AI and HPC workloads.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and build scalable, multi-tenant Kubernetes services, including control plane, cluster lifecycle, and high availability.
- Design GPU-aware orchestration, inference platform services, and foundations for Managed Slurm on Kubernetes.
- Lead cross-team infrastructure design, operational resilience, and engineering practices across compute, networking, storage, and security.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, or SRE, including at least 5 years focused on Kubernetes at scale.
- Expert Kubernetes internals knowledge and holistic expertise across compute, networking, storage, and security.
- Production-quality Go skills (required) and Python; experience with GPU orchestration in Kubernetes.
- Technical leadership and experience designing and operating managed services or multi-tenant platforms.
Nice to have
- Experience building or operating managed Kubernetes services or Kubernetes control plane components.
- Hands-on experience with NVIDIA open-source projects beyond GPU Operator, or familiarity with HPC and Slurm.
Pay
$314K – $465K • Multiple Ranges (annual salary; currency not specified)
Tools
Kubernetes, Go, Python, NVIDIA GPU Operator, DCGM, Prometheus, Grafana, GitOps
AI focus
Builds GPU orchestration and inference platform services for AI workloads; shapes AIOps for automated capacity planning, anomaly detection, and predictive maintenance.
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