Investigate and resolve storage-related incidents using deep telemetry, logs, and performance profiling — from a single flapping NIC to a cluster-wide rebuild.
Automate ticketing, escalation, and incident-response workflows so the team spends less time on repetitive triage and more time on root cause.
Design and maintain self-healing automation for common failure modes: drive replacement, node swaps, rebuild monitoring, and capacity rebalancing.
Implement CI/CD pipelines for storage automation and tooling.
Partner with Storage Engineers, Fleet Orchestration, and Release Engineering to automate the deployment and configuration of software-defined storage across new and existing sites using tools such as Ansible, Jenkins etc.
Work with hardware and networking teams to diagnose low-level I/O and network issues — NIC errors, RDMA/RoCE/InfiniBand fabric health, path multipathing — that surface as storage-layer symptoms.
Participate in an on-call rotation supporting Lambda's storage fleet, with a focus on driving down MTTR and building the automation that keeps you from getting paged for the same thing twice.
YOU HAVE
5+ years of experience operating Linux systems in production or HPC environments, with hands-on storage experience at scale on scale-out or software-defined platforms (e.g., CEPH, Lustre, GPFS, or similar).
Hands-on experience operating Software-Defined Storage (SDS) platforms at scale, including integrating with their management and data-plane APIs.
Strong incident-response instincts: comfortable owning a production storage incident end to end, from first alert through root cause to postmortem.
Working experience with monitoring and logging platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Datadog, or SumoLogic — including building dashboards and alert/pager routing for multiple audiences.
Working experience with Kubernetes (GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD, Helm/Kustomize) and hands-on troubleshooting.
Working experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, BuildKite), containerization (Docker/Podman), and systems programming in Python or Go.
Working experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
Solid understanding of core storage protocols across file (NFS, SMB), object (S3), block (NVMe-oF/TCP), and structured (vector DB, SQL) storage.
Nice to Have
Experience with cutting-edge software-defined storage solutions such as VAST or Weka.
Enterprise storage expertise in solutions such as NetApp, Dell PowerScale, GPFS, or Lustre.
Experience writing or operating Kubernetes CSI drivers.
Experience with SR-IOV and virtualization (KVM/QEMU).
Experience with GPUDirect Storage, RDMA, InfiniBand, or RoCE networking.
Familiarity with NIC-level diagnostics (ethtool, mlxlink) and fleet-wide operations tooling (clush or similar).
Contributions to open-source storage projects.
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
Equal Opportunity Employer
Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
