Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud Foundations

Cloud Foundations EngineerLambda, 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.This position requires presence in our San Francisco/San Jose/Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda's designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.Cloud Foundations manages the account, access, and network foundation that Lambda's cloud infrastructure runs on, implementing governance and access controls in line with company policies. In practice that means AWS accounts and IAM, the VPC and transit network structure, DNS, and the Terraform execution platform that every change flows through.This is a new team, and this role helps define it. Working closely with Security, GRC, IT, and the engineering teams that consume the foundation, this position turns policy into working controls and paved paths, so that hundreds of engineers can safely self-serve instead of filing requests.What You'll DoOwn and evolve the IaC execution platform (Terraform, Atlantis): how infrastructure changes are proposed, reviewed, and applied across the companyDesign and operate Lambda's cloud account, access, and IAM structure: organizational hierarchy, provisioning, and permission modelsOwn the cloud network foundation: VPCs, Transit Gateway, and DNS, including the patterns other teams build onDrive AWS cloud governance: tagging standards, compliance guardrails, and cost visibility and accountabilityImplement least-privilege access and compliance automation in line with company requirements and policies, replacing manual access and provisioning work with self-serviceHelp shape how this new team operates: its scope, priorities, and service boundariesParticipate in an on-call rotation and keep the systems you own well-documented, reliable, and observableWho You Are6+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud platform, or cloud security engineering, or a closely related disciplineDeep experience managing AWS at scale: multi-account organizations, IAM and permission boundaries, SCPs, and resource organizationStrong foundation in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and the tooling around it: modules, state management, and automated plan/apply workflowsSolid cloud networking fundamentals: VPC design, transit and hybrid connectivity, DNS, and edge/CDN configurationComfortable writing the automation and tooling that runs the foundation (Go and/or Python), and treating it as a product: real users, real quality standards, and things that actually get adoptedUse AI tools as a natural part of how you work, and hold their output to the same bar as your own: you review it, verify it, and own what shipsBuild for the many, not for one team or one use caseComfortable with ambiguity and clarifying ownershipDistill the right problem out of the noise: ask the why behind the whyOwn what you build past the point it ships: monitor it, measure whether it actually helped, and act on what you learnSweat the details and aren't satisfied until things run smoothlyNice to HaveExperience building agentic workflows that automate meaningful parts of infrastructure operations or governanceExperience implementing controls for a compliance program (SOC 2, ISO 27001) without turning it into manual toilCloud cost management and FinOps experienceHands-on experience with Azure, GCP, or OCI alongside AWSSalary Range InformationThe 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 LambdaFounded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fastOur 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 CoveWe have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOGOur values are publicly available: offer generous cash & equity compensationHealth, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependentsWellness and commuter stipends for select roles401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually useEqual Opportunity EmployerLambda 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.