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David Careers

Senior Software Engineer - Compute

Posted 6 days ago

lambdaSan Jose (CA)
Software DevelopersComputer Systems Design Services

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About the role

Compute Software Engineer 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. The Compute Software Engineering role plays a key part in the foundation of both the Public and Private Cloud offerings by enabling Bare-Metal and Virtual Machine provisioning.
In this role you will: Develop and integrate workflows for compute instance lifecycle, system health, host and cluster validation, and contribute to and evolve the internal platform tooling, and workflows. As part of the Compute Engineering team, this position focuses on improving the bare-metal and VM developer and customer experiences, streamlining the software delivery lifecycle, building, testing, and shipping software efficiently and reliably. The position works closely with various engineering teams across the company and contributes directly to Lambda's ability to scale engineering productivity, maintain high delivery velocity, and support the company's continued growth by making the right engineering workflows easier, faster, and more reliable.
What You'll Do:
  • Design, develop and maintain software for GPU/CPU compute infrastructure with focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
  • Implement and develop services for baremetal and VM instancing.
  • Develop distributed systems for managing and orchestrating compute resources across various SKU's.
  • Troubleshoot and debug complex issues in a production and development environment.
  • On-call and incident ownership
  • Collaboration across multiple teams and drive ambiguity in requirements or solutions on RFC's.
  • You 5+ years of experience working with Go (Golang) or Python in production environments.5+ years of experience with bare metal & virtualization hardware management and configuration.
  • Are comfortable working in Linux environments and debugging issues at the OS, hardware, and networking layers.
  • Can independently troubleshoot complex systems and communicate effectively across software, infrastructure, and vendor teams.
Nice to Have:
  • Familiarity with GPU Infrastructure or high-performance computing environments.
  • Experience with Slurm or Kubernetes-based cluster management.
  • Experience with core public cloud internals (Virtualization, KVM, QEMU, Security and Fleet health)
  • Experience with durable execution platforms like Temporal.
  • 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 CoveWe have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOGOur values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careersWe 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 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.

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