Senior Software Engineer - Networking

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. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

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

*Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco/San Jose/Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.

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 multi-tenant 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

• Participate in on-call

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, with 500+ employees, and growing fast

• Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove

• We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG

• Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers

• We offer generous cash & equity compensation

• 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.