Senior Software Engineer - Kernel/Security

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement foundational Linux security features and software infrastructure to protect large-scale AI/ML workloads running across thousands of GPUs in modern cloud platforms.
• Develop advanced security capabilities for containerized environments, including container runtime security, image signing and verification, vulnerability scanning, namespace isolation, and control groups.
• Develop kernel integrity monitoring solutions using Linux Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA), Extended Verification Module (EVM), and eBPF-based observability, integrating with SEIM systems for real-time detection and forensic analysis of kernel-level threats.
• Engineer security capabilities for virtualized environments, including hypervisor hardening (KVM/QEMU), secure VM provisioning, encrypted storage, inter-VM network segmentation, and integration of hardware-assisted virtualization security features.
• Perform system hardening by applying security baselines, disabling unnecessary services, enforcing strong authentication, configuring kernel parameters, and automating compliance through configuration management tools.
• Architect and implement isolation technologies, including hardware-based enclaves, micro-segmentation, and sandboxing mechanisms to ensure a strong separation between workloads in multi-tenant environments.
• Some telecommuting permitted (hybrid).

About Lambda

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. 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, a 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees), and a flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use. Equal Opportunity Employer.

Compensation Range

$346K - $444K