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Senior Platform Engineer - Core Infrastructure

San Francisco Office (Fremont St)💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-14 → 2026-09-25

Core

Architect, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters across bare-metal datacenters to support AI cloud infrastructure for researchers, enterprises, and hyperscalers.

Role type

Senior Platform Engineer (Core Infrastructure)

Builds

Lambda's cloud APIs, systems, and internal tooling for system deployment, management, and maintenance.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / Kubernetes / AI Compute

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes internals, GitOps, Linux system operations, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Pulumi), Networking, Observability stacks, Go/Python programming, Security practices

Preferred skills

Multi-cluster/multi-cloud environments, GPU scheduling, Workflow orchestration, Cost optimization, CNCF contributions

Technologies

Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform, Pulumi, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Go, Python

Responsibilities

Architect and operate Kubernetes clusters; Build automation for cluster lifecycle management; Own reliability, performance, and security of production workloads; Implement observability and alerting; Partner on scalable cloud-native services; Set standards for resource management and networking; Lead incident response and post-mortems; Mentor junior engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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