IT Systems Engineer - Internal Platforms & SRE

Lambda Inc.
San Jose, CA, United States
about 1 month ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Compensation
$206,000.0 - $275,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Data Analysis Build Automation Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Configuration Management Information Systems Data Infrastructure Distributed Systems Github Python (Programming Language)
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Performance Tuning Ansible Data Streaming Systems Integration Toolchain JavaScript Pagination Plugin Google Cloud Enterprise Software Applications Information Technology Software Coding Terraform Software Performance

Job description

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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

Benefits & conditions

Health insurance, 401(k) matching, Paid time off, Vision insurance, Dental insurance, Work from home Full-time Hybrid work in San Jose, CA, 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 the company

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.

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