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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer in Fleet Engineering - **Company:** Lambda Inc. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Platform Management Interface, BIOS, Configuration Management, Code Generation, Data Centers, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Data Center Infrastructure Management (CIM), Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Domain Name System (DNS), Firmware, Hardware Compatibility (Software Requirements), InfiniBand, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, Linux Distribution, Ansible, Computer Networking Systems, Delivery Pipeline, Programmable Network, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Bare Metal, Build Tools, Machine Learning Operations - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-fleet-engineering-lambda-3-8025327 ## About the Role * Have 5+ years of engineering experience * Are fluent in Python, Go, or similar, and comfortable with APIs, distributed systems, and automation pipelines * Work confidently in Linux environments and can debug across the OS, hardware, and networking layers * Are excited about working at the intersection of hardware, software, and physical datacenter builds * Have owned production systems with real SLAs * Can lead technical design on medium-to-large features: take an ambiguous problem, write the doc, drive alignment across teams, and ship * Leave systems, and the teammates around you, better than you found them Nice to Have * Experience in AI or ML infrastructure, or other hyperscale compute environments * Hands-on experience with bare metal provisioning and lifecycle management, including technologies such as PXE, Redfish, IPMI, BMC, DHCP, and DNS * Familiarity with datacenter physical infrastructure, including racks, switches, InfiniBand fabric, and power domains * Experience diagnosing issues involving drivers, firmware, and hardware compatibility across GPU servers * Experience with DPUs or programmable network accelerators * Experience with network source-of-truth systems (NetBox or similar) or DCIM tooling * Experience building Linux distributions or managing OS customization and imaging * Familiarity with Ansible or similar configuration management tooling * Exposure to Kubernetes and container orchestration concepts * Experience incorporating AI-assisted development tools into engineering workflows, including code generation, debugging, test development, and documentation ## Description *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. Fleet Engineering at Lambda is responsible for logically deploying, provisioning, and maintaining our rapidly growing fleet, spanning GPU, CPU, and storage hosts along with the InfiniBand and networking fabric that ties them together. As a Senior Software Engineer in Fleet Engineering, you will build and improve the systems that take our clusters from hardware receiving through provisioning, configuration, and day-to-day operation in production. You will work on automation and tooling that keep the fleet consistent, healthy, and easy to operate as it grows. The systems you build directly determine how quickly and reliably new hardware turns into usable customer capacity. What You'll Do Fleet Engineering spans several teams. 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