Senior Platform Engineer - Core InfrastructurePosted today$230K–$340K

The opportunity

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers.

What you'll do

  • Architect, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters across Lambda's bare-metal datacenters.

  • Build and maintain automation for cluster lifecycle management: provisioning,: upgrades, and scaling. Similar to SRE-level coding abilities (small scripts, k8s operators/CRDs a plus)

  • Own the reliability, performance, and security of Kubernetes workloads in production.

  • Implement observability, logging, and alerting for clusters and critical workloads.

  • Partner with product teams to design scalable, cloud-native services.

  • Set the standards for resource management, networking, and RBAC across the platform.

What they're looking for

  • Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems for platform issues.
  • Mentor junior engineers and raise the bar for platform engineering across the org.
  • + years in Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE roles, including running Kubernetes in production at scale.
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals and day-2 operations (upgrades, scaling, troubleshooting).