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Lambda · 1 month ago

Senior Software Engineer - Developer Productivity

positionSan Jose, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$266K/yr - $445K/yr
date5+ years exp

Lambda is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving a diverse range of customers. The Senior Software Engineer will design and build the shared foundations platform that enhances engineering productivity across the company, focusing on CI/CD workflows, documentation systems, and internal developer tooling.

AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingData CenterGPUMachine Learning
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Responsibilities

Own design, development, and operation of the shared foundations platform, ensuring high availability, developer productivity, and maintainable architecture
Work with engineering teams to identify opportunities to refactor common needs into the shared foundation
Incorporate reusable service reliability practices like retries, circuit breakers, and observability instrumentation
Deliver technical leadership on CI/CD workflows, documentation systems, API standards, and operational practices across engineering teams
Build and maintain reusable GitHub Actions workflows, shared libraries, and developer tooling that accelerate delivery
Establish and steward documentation standards, information architecture, and freshness policies to ensure engineering docs remain discoverable and up-to-date
Partner with infrastructure, product engineering, and DevOps teams on roadmap priorities, technical tradeoffs, and adoption strategies
Drive API versioning, contract-change management, and cross-team communication patterns to reduce integration friction
Lead working groups on CI/CD, Python/Go tooling, and design system standards, facilitating consensus and adoption
Mentor engineers, run design reviews, and help teams adopt bottom-up standards with clear exception processes
Monitor and improve KPIs including CI workflow adoption, docs freshness, time-to-green for new services, and PR-to-prod velocity

Qualification

PythonGoCI/CD systemsInfrastructure toolingKubernetesTerraformAPI standardsTechnical leadershipMentoringCommunication skills

Required

5+ years total software engineering experience with 2+ years building developer platforms, CI/CD systems, or infrastructure tooling
Strong programming experience in Python and/or Go, with expertise in system-level debugging, testing, and building maintainable APIs
Demonstrated experience designing and operating production services at scale, with focus on reliability, observability, and developer experience
Deep knowledge of CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD), containerization (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
Proven ability to establish technical standards, drive adoption across engineering teams, and mentor other engineers
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience facilitating working groups and building consensus on technical decisions

Preferred

Experience designing and operating documentation systems at scale (e.g., Notion, MkDocs, Confluence) with automated freshness tracking
Prior work building reusable CI/CD workflows, GitHub Actions, or shared developer tooling adopted across multiple teams
Experience establishing API versioning standards, contract-change management, or cross-team integration patterns
Familiarity with Python packaging tools (uv, Poetry, pip-tools) and modern dependency management practices
Experience leading technical working groups, driving consensus on standards, and managing exception processes
Background in developer experience (DevEx) or platform engineering with measurable impact on team productivity metrics

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

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Lambda is a cloud-based platform that provides high-performance GPU hardware and cloud infrastructure for AI model training and inference.
dateFounded in 2012
location
San Jose, California, USA
people-size501-1000 employees
web-link
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

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Stephen Balaban
Co-founder, CEO
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Michael Balaban
Co-Founder / CTO
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Recent News

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AI cloud provider Lambda reportedly raising $350M round
2026-01-11
Business Wire
Lambda Appoints Leonard Speiser as Chief Operating Officer
2026-01-09
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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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