Job description

We're here to help the smartest minds on the planet build Superintelligence. The labs pushing the edge? They run on Lambda. Our gear trains and serves their models, our infrastructure scales with them, and we move fast to keep up. If you want to work on massive, world-changing AI deployments with people who love action and hard problems, we're the place to be.

If you'd like to build the world's best deep learning cloud, join us.

Engineering at Lambda is responsible for building and scaling our cloud offering. Our scope includes the Lambda website, cloud APIs and systems as well as internal tooling for system deployment, management and maintenance.

What You'll Do

Help scale Lambda’s high performance cloud network
Contribute to the reproducible automation of network configuration and deployments
Contribute to the implementation and operations of Software Defined Networks
Help to deploy and manage Spine and Leaf networks
Ensure high availability of our network through observability, failover, and redundancy
Ensure clients have predictable networking performance through the use of network engineering and other applicable technologies
Help with deploying and maintaining network monitoring and management tools

You

Have 5+ years of experience being SWE, SRE or Network Reliability Engineering
Been part of the implementation of production-scale networking projects
Experience being on-call and incident response management
Have experience building and maintaining Software Defined Networks (SDN), experience with OpenStack, Neutron, OVN
Are comfortable on the Linux command line, and have an understanding of the Linux networking stack
Have experience with multi-data center networks and hybrid cloud networks
Have Python programming experience and configuration management tools like Ansible
Have experience with CI/CD tools for deployment and GIT. Operated network environment with GitOps practices in place.
Experience with application lifecycle and deployments on Kubernetes

Nice To Have

Operated production-scale SDNs in a cloud context (e.g. helped implement or operate the infrastructure that powers an AWS VPC-like feature)
Have Software development experience with C, GO, Python
Experience automating network configuration within public clouds, with tools like kubentetes, HELM, Terraform, Ansible
Deep understanding of the Linux networking stack and its interaction with network virtualization, SR-IOV and DPDK
Understanding of the SDN ecosystem (e.g. OVS, Neutron, VMware NSX, Cisco ACI or Nexus Fabric Controller, Arista CVP)
Have experience with Spine and Leaf (Clos) network topology
Have experience and understanding of BGP EVPN VXLAN networks
Experience with building and maintaining multi-data center networks, SD-WAN, DWDM
Experience with Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW)

Salary Range Information

The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

About Lambda

Founded in 2012, ~400 employees (2025) and growing fast
We offer generous cash & equity compensation
Our investors include Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, US Innovative Technology, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, Crescent Cove.
We are experiencing extremely high demand for our systems, with quarter over quarter, year over year profitability
Our research papers have been accepted into top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Wellness and Commuter stipends for select roles
401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Flexible Paid Time Off Plan that we all actually use

A Final Note:

You do not need to match all of the listed expectations to apply for this position. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

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