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.
Skills Required
- Backend experience building business-critical services using Python, Unix/Command line, Django or FastAPI, and Postgres.
- Proven experience owning complex features end-to-end in highly ambiguous environments under tight deadlines.
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining developer-facing APIs and documentation.
What We Do
Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure and the #1 GPU Cloud for ML/AI teams. Their mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence.
