Lambda Senior Director of Network Reliability Engineering at Lambda responsible for end-to-end network health and reliability. Lead break-fix operations and develop automation for failure detection and remediation.
Responsibilities
Own the reliability of Lambda's network end to end, from GPU compute fabrics to data center, backbone and edge, and be accountable for availability, time to detect and time to restore
Run break-fix operations at scale: fault detection, triage, hardware replacement and RMA, optics and cabling remediation, and coordination with Data Center Operations and remote-hands partners across a growing fleet of data centers
Lead the networking ops excellence and incident management program, including on-call, incident command, escalation paths, customer communication and blameless postmortems that turn into engineering fixes
Set the multi-year strategy for a self-healing network: automated loops that detect and isolate failing components, shift traffic, drain and restore capacity, and open repair work without human intervention
Convert manual break-fix work into durable software. The goal is a network that repairs itself, not a faster set of runbooks. Measure toil, set targets to reduce it, and track the share of failures resolved automatically as a primary outcome for your org
Define network SLOs and error budgets with product and customer-facing teams, and use them to prioritize reliability work against feature and capacity work
Build automation that is safe to trust, with blast-radius limits, staged rollouts, audit trails and rollback for every automated action, including AI-assisted triage and remediation
Own the operational bar for your org: how incidents are detected, handled, reviewed, measured and learned from
Build and lead the organization that delivers it: hire, develop and retain engineers and the leaders who manage them, and design the team structure as the network and the org grow
Manage through leads and senior ICs, developing both, with regular 1:1s, clear performance feedback, growth planning, and sponsorship of meaningful work
Partner with Network Engineering, Network Capacity Automation, Software and Principal Engineers so reliability requirements are designed in from the start and failure data informs architecture, hardware and vendor decisions
Partner with Data Center Operations, Supply Chain and vendors on spares strategy, RMA turnaround and hardware failure trends
Qualification
Experience in GPU cloudSalary Range InformationFounded in 2012
Preferred
Experience in GPU cloud, HPC, or AI/ML infrastructure environments
Experience operating InfiniBand or RoCE fabrics at scale, and understanding how network faults affect distributed training jobs
Experience applying ML or LLM-based tooling to operations, such as anomaly detection, alert correlation, automated triage or root-cause analysis
Experience with streaming network telemetry at scale (gNMI, OpenConfig or similar)
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.
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
