Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes/AI): Improving the reliability, scalability, and operational maturity of compute provisioning and infrastructure orchestration systems with an accent on Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, and observability. Focus on designing fault-isolation mechanisms, automating detection of configuration drift, and leading production incident response for AI workloads.

Location: Hybrid: Must be based in San Francisco, San Jose, or Bellevue (presence required 4 days per week)

Salary: $240,000 – $356,000

Company

Lambda is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure providing compute power for AI researchers and enterprises.

What you will do

• Operate and scale critical platform services across physical data centers.
• Improve reliability of compute provisioning, instance lifecycle, and regional orchestration.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and tracing for service health and provisioning latency.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and operational readiness standards.
• Automate detection and remediation of configuration drift and failed workflows.
• Lead production incident response, postmortems, and durable corrective actions.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in SRE, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Deep production experience operating Kubernetes architecture and networking.
• Proficiency with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience building CI/CD or GitOps workflows using Argo CD, Flux, Helm, or Kustomize.
• Experience with observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Ability to develop production-quality tooling in Go or Python.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI infrastructure, GPU platforms, or high-performance computing.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes controllers, operators, CRDs, or scheduler extensions.
• Experience with chaos engineering, fault injection, or automated remediation.
• Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar compliance frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive cash and equity compensation.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• 401k Plan with 2% company match for USA employees.
• Flexible paid time off plan.
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles.