Software Engineer (Managed Kubernetes)
Lambda
San Francisco, California, United StatesUSD 225k – USD 300kPosted Jul 17, 2026Full Time
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View original posting ↗- Design, build, and maintain scalable control plane services, operators, and custom controllers for Kubernetes
- Develop automation for cluster lifecycle management (provisioning, upgrades, patching, and deletion)
- Develop internal tools, APIs, and command-line interfaces (CLIs) that enable customers and ML and AI teams to deploy and monitor inference services effectively
- Write resilient systems that gracefully handle failure across large-scale distributed environments
- Define and implement Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service-Level Indicators (SLIs) for Kubernetes services, workloads, and the platform
- Drive into systems at a low level to solve unique cluster problems and write up the findings
- Assist customers with high-level Kubernetes questions and integrations with applications, storage, and authentication
- Assist with initial cluster buildouts and validation to help identify failed hardware before customer delivery
- Work closely with our HPC Ops and Datacenter Ops teams on issues that require lower-level expertise or cross-functional solutions
- Participate in a well-managed, sustainable on-call rotation
Benefits
- Health, dental vision
- 401k match
- 5 sick days and 12 paid holidays
- Flexible PTO
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave- Have 5 years of progressive experience as Software Engineer or related occupation
- Development and CI/CD workflow using tools including Gerrit, Git, and Jenkins
- Must have at least 1 year of prior work experience in each of the following:
- Have a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- Distributed systems software development as applied to computer networking infrastructure
- Software development using cloud-native technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Etcd, and gRPC
- Full-stack development in multiple software languages including Python, Go, Java, or C/C++
- Tuning Kubernetes configuration and working with Operators, CRDs, CSI, and CNI
- Working with and developing open-source projects