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Staff Software Engineer - Managed Kubernetes

AI summary of the role

Staff Engineer to lead the technical vision for Lambda's Managed Kubernetes platform, purpose-built for AI workloads on bare metal.

What you’ll do

  • Drive technical vision for Lambda's Managed Kubernetes bare-metal platform, including control plane scalability, multi-tenancy, cluster lifecycle management, and high availability
  • Integrate and extend NVIDIA's open-source ecosystem: GPU Operator, Network Operator, DCGM, NCCL, AICR, Topograph for topology-aware scheduling
  • Design GPU-aware orchestration systems and build the foundation for Managed Slurm on Kubernetes
  • Serve as technical bridge between Orchestration and Network, Storage, Security teams, translating platform requirements into actionable specifications

What you’ll bring

  • 10+ years software engineering, platform engineering, or SRE with at least 5 years focused on Kubernetes at scale
  • Expert-level understanding of Kubernetes internals: API machinery, controllers, schedulers, operators, CRDs, CSI, CNI
  • Strong software engineering skills in Go (required) and Python
  • Deep experience with GPU orchestration in Kubernetes: NVIDIA GPU Operator, device plugins, DCGM, MIG, time-slicing, GPU-aware scheduling

Technologies

Kubernetes · Go · Python · NVIDIA GPU Operator · NVIDIA Network Operator · DCGM · NCCL · Cilium · Multus · InfiniBand · RoCE · RDMA

About Lambda

GPU cloud serving AI researchers, frontier labs and hyperscalers with on-demand and reserved NVIDIA clusters for training and inference.

Series E · 500–1000 people

Source and classification

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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, or Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday. About the Role Lambda is building the AI Cloud of the future. We are seeking a Staff Engineer to help our development of our Managed Kubernetes platform. Think GKE, but purpose-built for AI workloads and running on bare metal. This is a foundational technical leadership role where you will shape the infrastructure that powers the
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