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Lambda · 5 months ago

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Observability

San Francisco Office

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$267K/yr - $401K/yr

8+ years exp

Lambda is a company focused on helping the smartest minds build Superintelligence through their advanced AI infrastructure. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a strong background in observability to deploy and operate platforms for logging and metrics, automate deployment processes, and enhance system reliability across engineering teams.

AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingData CenterGPUMachine Learning

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Deploy and operate observability platforms for logging, metrics, and distributed tracing

Automate the deployment and operation of these observability systems

Set up monitoring for modern AI/HPC clusters

Develop platform software to make observability adoptable and improve system reliability across Lambda engineering

Lead members of other engineering teams to design and develop solutions for their monitoring challenges

Qualification

Site Reliability EngineeringGoObservability toolsKubernetesCI/CD pipelinesLinux fundamentalsQuality assuranceSystem administrationCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

Have 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with 3+ years in Go

Have 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering practices

Possess proven understanding of Observability tools and practices

Have experience with application deployment and monitoring using Kubernetes

Have experience building CI/CD pipelines

Expect quality and reliability from the solutions you build

Enjoy collaborating across team boundaries to help our engineering teams meet their observability needs

Preferred

Experience monitoring AI systems or HPC clusters

Experience with Prometheus and writing queries in PromQL

Experience with messaging systems like NATS

Understanding of the OpenTelemetry ecosystem and experience with both OTel instrumentation and the OTel collector

Experience with network monitoring, Ethernet and Infiniband

Understanding of dashboard design principles

Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals and system administration

Experience with infrastructure automation tooling such as Ansible and Terraform

Benefits

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

Company

Lambda

Lambda is a cloud-based platform that provides high-performance GPU hardware and cloud infrastructure for AI model training and inference.

Founded in 2012

San Jose, California, USA

501-1000 employees

https://lambda.ai

H1B Sponsorship

Lambda has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (16)

2024 (1)

2023 (3)

2022 (2)

2021 (2)

2020 (3)

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

$3.19B

Key Investors

TWG GlobalJP MorganMacquarie Group

2025-11-18Series E· $1.5B

2025-08-19Debt Financing· $275M

2025-02-19Series D· $480M

Leadership Team

Stephen Balaban

Co-founder, CEO

Michael Balaban

Co-Founder / CTO

Recent News

SiliconANGLE

AI cloud provider Lambda reportedly raising $350M round

2026-01-11

Business Wire

Lambda Appoints Leonard Speiser as Chief Operating Officer

2026-01-09

Techmeme

Source: Lambda, which rents access to AI chips and is backed by Nvidia, is in talks to raise $350M+ led by Mubadala Capital, ahead of an IPO planned for H2 2026 (The Information)

2026-01-09

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