{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"c7ea0f29fcfc9550d662ca5d","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c7ea0f29fcfc9550d662ca5d","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c7ea0f29fcfc9550d662ca5d","title":"Senior Software Engineer - API Experience","description":"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.\nIf you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.\nNote: 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.\n\nWhat The Role is About\nThe API Experience team is responsible for Lambda’s customer-facing Core Cloud APIs — everything from creating a new instance or attaching storage to managing VPCs. We deliver a delightful, consistent, and cohesive API-first experience to all our customers, from self-serve Public Cloud users to the largest, most demanding AI companies on the planet.\nWhat You’ll Do\nBuild end-to-end features for Lambda Cloud.\nContribute to both frontend and backend code across existing and new features.\nCollaborate with Product Engineering, Platform, and Infrastructure teams to deliver solutions that cut across the stack.\nPartner with Product Managers to design, scope, and deliver features that are critical to customer success, without compromising on our product quality.\nWork directly with Superintelligence customers’ engineering teams.\nOwn production features and systems, including participating in incident response rotations.\nDesign and implement observability and maintenance processes for the new features we build.\nYou\nBackend experience building business-critical services using Python, Unix/Command line, Django or FastAPI, and Postgres.\nProven experience owning complex features end-to-end, from defining problems with Product to GA release and measuring success criteria, in highly ambiguous environments under tight deadlines.\nProven ability to clearly communicate trade offs in scoping and timelines.\nExperience designing, implementing, and maintaining developer-facing APIs and documentation.\nAdditional Core Experience\nCI/CD: Automation for testing and deployment workflows\nReliability & Observability: Logging, alerting, and building highly available systems\nCloud Native Services: Experience with AWS, Okta, Cloudflare, etc.\nNice-to-Haves\nExperience with Kubernetes\nInfrastructure as Code (e.g.,Terraform, Atlantis, Crossplane)\nExperience in ML, AI, or data science\nApplication security and web hardening\nEngineering leadership or mentorship experience\nSalary Range Information\nThe 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.\nAbout Lambda\nFounded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast\nOur 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\nWe have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG\nOur values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers\nWe offer generous cash & equity compensation\nHealth, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents\nWellness and commuter stipends for select roles\n401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)\nFlexible paid time off plan that we all actually use\nA Final Note:\nYou do not need to match all of the listed expectations to apply for this position. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nLambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. 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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.\nIf you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.\nNote: 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.\n\nWhat The Role is About\nThe API Experience team is responsible for Lambda’s customer-facing Core Cloud APIs — everything from creating a new instance or attaching storage to managing VPCs. 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