Senior Network Engineer

About the role

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. If you're passionate about building the world's best AI cloud, join us.

Responsibilities

• Help to build and scale Lambda's high performance cloud network
• Work on deploying and configuring networking Hardware for new and existing clusters
• Ensure high availability of our network through monitoring, failover, and redundancy
• Contribute to automation of network configuration management and operation
• Work with internal and external customers to resolve network related issues
• Help with deploying and maintaining network monitoring and management tools
• Be part of day2 operations and on-call rotation for Network Engineering team

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in IT and networking space
• 6+ years of experience in designing and operating production Data Center type of networks
• Led the implementation of large production-scale networking projects
• Experience managing Next-Generation Firewalls (e.g. Fortigate)
• Experience with cloud providers networking (such as AWS, GCP, OCI)
• Expert in CLOS/Spine and Leaf fabrics, EVPN/VXLAN, ECMP, BGP, and fast convergence techniques
• Comfortable on the Linux command line, and have an understanding of the Linux networking stack and internals
• Strong automation skills (Python, Ansible) and network APIs, worked with git or similar source control systems
• Production experience with multiple network gear vendors (Arista, Juniper, Cisco, Cumulus/SONiC, Opengear)
• Experience with Networking Monitoring stack (Datadog, Clickhouse, Grafana, Prometheus, gNMI, OTel)

Qualifications

• Nice to have: Knowledge or experience maintaining Software Defined Networks (SDN), experience automating network configuration within public clouds, with tools like Terraform/Ansible/Salt, Hands-on with HPC/AI networking: RoCEv2 and/or InfiniBand (Congestion Control, VLs, partitions), GPUDirect RDMA concepts, Experience with DWDM technologies and SD-WAN, Understanding of data center power/space/cooling trade-offs and their impact on topology choices, Experience with virtualization technology, like ESXi, KVM, and VMs management, Experience with LoadBalancers like F5, NetScaler

Skills

• Expertise in CLOS/Spine and Leaf fabrics, EVPN/VXLAN, ECMP, BGP, and fast convergence techniques
• Linux command line proficiency and understanding of the Linux networking stack and internals
• Strong automation skills (Python, Ansible)
• Network APIs and experience with git or similar source control systems
• Production experience with multiple network gear vendors (Arista, Juniper, Cisco, Cumulus/SONiC, Opengear)
• Experience with Networking Monitoring stack (Datadog, Clickhouse, Grafana, Prometheus, gNMI, OTel)

Benefits

• Compensation Range: $250K - $370K

Pay

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.

Schedule

One person, one GPU. 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.

Company Overview

Lambda, founded in 2012, is a rapidly growing company with 500+ employees. We are backed by notable investors such as 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. Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision coverage, wellness and commuter stipends, a 401k Plan with a 2% company match (USA employees), and flexible paid time off. 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.