Senior Platform Engineer, Lambda

• 5+ years in Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE roles, including running Kubernetes in production at scale
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals and day-2 operations (upgrades, scaling, troubleshooting)
• Strong with Helm, Kustomize, or similar, and GitOps-based delivery
• Proficient with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent)
• Solid grounding in networking, service meshes, and container runtimes
• Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Strong coding skills in Go or Python for automation and tooling
• Practical security experience: network policies, secrets management, and image scanning

Desirable

• Engineering at Lambda is responsible for building and scaling our cloud offering. Our scope includes the Lambda website, cloud APIs and systems as well as internal tooling for system deployment, management and maintenance
• Architect, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters across AWS and Lambda's bare-metal datacenters
• Build and maintain automation for cluster lifecycle management — provisioning, upgrades, and scaling
• Own the reliability, performance, and security of Kubernetes workloads in production
• Implement observability, logging, and alerting for clusters and critical workloads
• Partner with product teams to design scalable, cloud-native services and CI/CD pipelines
• Set the standards for resource management, networking, and RBAC across the platform
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems for platform issues
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar for platform engineering across the org