Senior Platform Engineer - Core Infrastructure
Lambda — San Francisco, California, United States · Remote · Senior
Role description
Role Overview
As a Senior Platform Engineer at Lambda, you will be responsible for building and scaling our cloud offering, including the Lambda website, cloud APIs and systems, and internal tooling for system deployment, management, and maintenance. You will work on architecting, deploying, and operating Kubernetes clusters across AWS and Lambda's bare-metal datacenters. You will also partner with product teams to design scalable, cloud-native services and CI/CD pipelines.
What You Will Do
Your main responsibilities will include architecting, deploying, and operating Kubernetes clusters, building and maintaining automation for cluster lifecycle management, owning the reliability, performance, and security of Kubernetes workloads in production, implementing observability, logging, and alerting for clusters and critical workloads, and mentoring engineers to raise the bar for platform engineering across the org.
Why It Might Be a Fit
To be a fit for this role, you will need to have 5+ years of experience in Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE roles, including running Kubernetes in production at scale. You will also need to have deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals and day-2 operations, strong coding skills in Go or Python, and practical security experience.
Requirements
- 5+ years in Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE roles
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals and day-2 operations
- Strong with Helm, Kustomize, or similar, and GitOps-based delivery
- Proficient with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent)
- Solid grounding in networking, service meshes, and container runtimes
- Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Strong coding skills in Go or Python for automation and tooling
- Practical security experience: network policies, secrets management, and image scanning
Benefits
- 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