Lambda

IT Systems Engineer - Internal Platforms & SRE

Lambda$120K — $145K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in system design and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Strong skills in programming languages such as Python and Go
  • Proficient in configuration management systems (Chef, Ansible, Terraform, GitHub Actions)
  • Ability to analyze software performance and engage in system tuning
  • Excellent communication skills for producing documentation and collaborating with teams
  • A proactive approach to problem-solving and fixing issues
  • Experience or interest in ML/AI workloads is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver software to improve IT systems' availability and efficiency
  • Develop automation to minimize problems in mission-critical services
  • Collaborate on creating designs and standards for large-scale distributed systems
  • Conduct capacity planning and demand forecasting for services
  • Produce documentation for systems and solutions provided

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
  • Wellness and commuter stipends for eligible roles
  • 401k plan with 2% company match for U.S. employees
  • Flexible paid time off plan that employees are encouraged to utilize
  • Generous cash and equity compensation packages
Full Job Description
If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

*Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco of San Jose office location 4 days per week; Lambda's designated work from home day is currently Tuesday

Information Systems at Lambda is responsible for building and scaling the internal systems that power our business. We partner across the company-Finance, GTM, Engineering, and People-to implement tools, automate workflows, and ensure data flows securely and accurately. Our scope includes enterprise applications, integrations, data platform and analytics, compliance automation, and all things IT.

What You'll Do
  • Design, write, and deliver software and services to improve the availability, scalability, reliability, and efficiency of Lambda's internal IT systems and platforms.
  • Solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional events.
  • Work with Lambda Engineering and internal teams to Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
  • Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.
  • Be an excellent communicator, producing documentation and related artifacts for the systems you are responsible for.

You
  • Have a keen interest in system design, architecting for performance, scalability, and experience with multiple cloud infrastructure platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
  • Think carefully about systems: edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, and specific implementations.
  • Know and prefer configuration management systems and toolchains (Chef, Ansible, Terraform, GitHub Actions, etc.)
  • Have solid programming skills: Python, Go, etc.
  • Have an urge to collaborate and communicate asynchronously, combined with a desire to record and document issues and solutions.
  • Have an enthusiastic, go-for-it attitude. When you see something broken, you can't help but fix it.
  • Have an urge for delivering quickly and effectively, and iterating fast.

Nice to Have
  • Experience and interest in ML/AI workloads and compute
  • Practical experience implementing and managing paging, alerting, and on-call scheduling flows
  • A positive attitude, combined with a desire to learn and collaborate

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

About Lambda

Lambda is an online education company that offers courses in computer science and software engineering. The company was founded in 2017 by Austen Allred and Ben Nelson. Lambda's courses are designed to be accessible to anyone, regardless of their background or prior experience. The company's mission is to provide high-quality education that leads to well-paying jobs in the tech industry. Lambda has partnerships with a number of companies, including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, and has helped thousands of students launch careers in tech.
Learn more about Lambda
Size
1,000 employees
Industry
Net Income
-$5 million
Founded
2017
5 Year Trend
+100%
Revenue
$100 million
NASDAQ

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