As a Senior Software Engineer on Lambda’s Core Cloud Platform team, you will build the control-plane systems that power Lambda’s GPU cloud. The team owns core platform capabilities across compute lifecycle, bare metal orchestration, maintenance actions, deployment readiness, reliability, and operational tooling
You will work on systems that turn physical GPU infrastructure into reliable, customer-facing cloud capacity: APIs, workflows, orchestration layers, schedulers, and operational surfaces for instance lifecycle, host reclaim, validation, maintenance, and safe regional deployments
This role is a strong fit for engineers who enjoy distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, operational excellence, and working close to the hardware/software boundary
Build and operate core cloud platform services for compute lifecycle, bare metal hosts, capacity, placement, and maintenance workflows
Design reliable APIs, backend services, state machines, and orchestration systems that power Lambda’s GPU cloud
Work on bare metal lifecycle systems including launch, terminate, restart/reboot, host reclaim, validation, quarantine, and return-to-pool workflows
Improve deployment, observability, testing, alerting, runbooks, and operational readiness for business-critical control-plane services
Debug complex production issues across distributed services, infrastructure dependencies, networking, and cloud workflows
Partner with infrastructure, networking, fleet, security, support, and product teams to define cross-system contracts and deliver end-to-end cloud capabilities
Contribute to architecture, design docs, code reviews, incident follow-through, and mentoring across the team
Enjoy building foundational cloud systems where correctness, reliability, and operational clarity matter
Are comfortable working across product, infrastructure, fleet, networking, security, and support boundaries
Can break down ambiguous platform problems into concrete APIs, workflows, contracts, and implementation plans
Care deeply about production behavior, not just code completion
Move fast while maintaining high standards for reliability, testability, and supportability
Communicate clearly and proactively, especially when risks, dependencies, or tradeoffs are unclear
Want to help build the cloud platform layer for large-scale AI infrastructure
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