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Senior Network Engineer

Lambda is hiring a Senior Network Engineer. It pays $250k-$370k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Lambda.

Level's read on this job

  • On Level's scale, this role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
  • Some of the work can be done remotely, according to the posting.
  • The posting mentions Python, Ansible and Terraform among its tools and skills.
  • Level classes it as a senior role.
  • Lambda has 96 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Build and scale high performance cloud network infrastructure supporting AI workloads at Lambda.

PythonAnsibleTerraformDatadogGrafanaPrometheusAristaJuniperCisco
networkinglinuxcloud-infrastructurehpc

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.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

*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.

What You’ll Do

  • Help to build and scale Lambda's high performance cloud network

  • Work on deploying and configuring networking Hardware for new and existing clusters

  • Ensure high availability of our network through monitoring, failover, and redundancy

  • Contribute to automation of network configuration management and operation

  • Work with internal and external customers to resolve network related issues

  • Help with deploying and maintaining network monitoring and management tools

  • Will be part of day2 operations and on-call rotation for Network Engineering team

You

  • Have 10+ years of experience in IT and networking space

  • Have 6+ years of experience in designing and operating production Data Center type of networks

  • Have led the implementation of large production-scale networking projects

  • Experience managing Next-Generation Firewalls (e.g. Fortigate)

  • Have experience with cloud providers networking (such as AWS, GCP, OCI)

  • Expert in CLOS/Spine and Leaf fabrics,EVPN/VXLAN, ECMP, BGP, and fast convergence techniques.

  • Are comfortable on the Linux command line, and have an understanding of the Linux networking stack and internals

  • Strong automation skills (Python, Ansible) and network APIs and worked with git or similar source control systems

  • Production experience with multiple network gear vendors (Arista, Juniper, Cisco, Cumulus/SONiC, Opengear)

  • Experience with Networking Monitoring stack (Datadog, Clickhouse, Grafana, Prometheus, gNMI, OTel)

Nice to Have

  • Have knowledge or experience maintaining Software Defined Networks (SDN)

  • Experience automating network configuration within public clouds, with tools like Terraform/Ansible/Salt

  • Hands-on with HPC/AI networking: RoCEv2 and/or InfiniBand (Congestion Control, VLs, partitions), GPUDirect RDMA concepts.

  • Experience with DWDM technologies and SD-WAN

  • Understanding of data center power/space/cooling trade-offs and their impact on topology choices

  • Have experience with virtualization technology, like ESXi, KVM, and VMs management

  • Experience with LoadBalancers like F5, NetScaler

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.

How we rate this

Senior Network Engineer at Lambda rates 20 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

NetworkingLinuxCloud InfrastructureHpcPythonAnsibleTerraformDatadog

Questions you could be asked

  1. Tell me about a project where networking was part of your work. What did you do?
  2. Tell me about a project where linux was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where cloud infrastructure was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where hpc was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Walk me through how you've used Python in your day-to-day work.

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