Senior Software Engineer - API Experience

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.

• Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco, San Jose, or Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.

What The Role Is About

The API Experience team is responsible for Lambda’s customer-facing Core Cloud APIs — everything from creating a new instance or attaching storage to managing VPCs. We deliver a delightful, consistent, and cohesive API-first experience to all our customers, from self-serve Public Cloud users to the largest, most demanding AI companies on the planet.

What You’ll Do

• Build end-to-end features for Lambda Cloud.
• Contribute to both frontend and backend code across existing and new features.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering, Platform, and Infrastructure teams to deliver solutions that cut across the stack.
• Partner with Product Managers to design, scope, and deliver features that are critical to customer success, without compromising on our product quality.
• Work directly with Superintelligence customers’ engineering teams.
• Own production features and systems, including participating in incident response rotations.
• Design and implement observability and maintenance processes for the new features we build.

You

• Backend experience building business-critical services using Python, Unix/Command line, Django or FastAPI, and Postgres.
• Proven experience owning complex features end-to-end, from defining problems with Product to GA release and measuring success criteria, in highly ambiguous environments under tight deadlines.
• Proven ability to clearly communicate trade offs in scoping and timelines.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining developer-facing APIs and documentation.

Additional Core Experience

• CI/CD: Automation for testing and deployment workflows
• Reliability & Observability: Logging, alerting, and building highly available systems
• Cloud Native Services: Experience with AWS, Okta, Cloudflare, etc.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code (e.g.,Terraform, Atlantis, Crossplane)
• Experience in ML, AI, or data science
• Application security and web hardening
• Engineering leadership or mentorship experience

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 Cove
• We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
• Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
• We 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

A Final Note

You do not need to match all of the listed expectations to apply for this position. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

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.

Compensation Range: $266K - $395K