Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure Storage

Lambda · San Francisco Office (Fremont St), San Jose Office (First St), Bellevue Office

Lambda is hiring a Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure Storage in San Francisco Office (Fremont St). The role focuses on operating systems & kernel, databases & storage, networking, graphics, gpu & compute, low-latency & performance.

Key responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Set technical direction for storage software architecture across petabyte-scale deployments, authoring and reviewing design docs, mentoring senior engineers, and serving as the technical anchor for cross-functional initiatives spanning storage, networking, compute, and control plane teams.
• Build distributed systems for orchestrating storage resources, integrate with NVMe/GPU-direct/DPU-accelerated hardware, and troubleshoot complex production issues across performance, protocol, and hardware failure domains.
• Collaboration: Partner closely with storage software, networking, control plane, Kubernetes, observability, compute, and fleet engineering teams to deliver cross-functional infrastructure initiatives, define and track storage SLOs/SLIs, and ensure reliable deployment and maintenance of distributed storage infrastructure.

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