Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage
About this role
Lambda is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the Storage Engineering team in San Francisco to manage and scale production data platforms for artificial intelligence workloads. This role suits an experienced infrastructure professional who enjoys solving complex distributed storage challenges in high-performance environments.
Role Overview
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage will own the performance, capacity health, and reliability of Lambda's production storage fleet across data center locations. This position requires working from the San Francisco or San Jose office four days a week, with Tuesday designated as a work-from-home day. Responsibilities include building automated monitoring systems, leading incident response investigations, and partnering with hardware and networking teams to ensure high availability for demanding compute workloads.
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Salary and Benefits
The annual salary range for this position is $267,000 to $356,000 USD per year. Employee benefits include generous cash and equity compensation packages, medical, dental, and vision health coverage for employees and dependents, a 401(k) plan featuring a 2% company match for US staff, wellness and commuter stipends for eligible roles, and a flexible paid time off policy.
About the Company
Founded in 2012, Lambda employs over 500 people and provides the superintelligence cloud infrastructure utilized by enterprise organizations, hyperscalers, and AI researchers globally. The company is backed by notable investors and institutions, with research contributions accepted at top-tier machine learning and graphics academic conferences.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should submit their application directly through the official Lambda careers page on the company website.
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What is the salary range for this position?
The annual salary range is between $267,000 and $356,000 USD.
Where is this job located?
This position is based in the San Francisco office on Fremont Street, with a requirement to work on-site four days per week and the flexibility to work from home on Tuesdays.
How many years of experience are required?
Candidates must have 5+ years of experience operating Linux systems in production or high-performance computing environments with scale-out or software-defined storage.
What technical skills are needed?
Key technical skills include Python, SQL, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Linux systems administration, and Infrastructure as Code frameworks.
What benefits does Lambda offer?
Lambda offers cash and equity compensation, medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a 2% company match, select wellness and commuter stipends, and flexible paid time off.