Senior Systems Engineer - Enterprise AI Platforms

The role

This person will design, write, and deliver software and services to improve the availability, scalability, reliability, and efficiency of internal IT systems and platforms. They will build and scale internal AI tooling, manage AI infrastructure and gateways, and automate operational pipelines.

What you will do

• Design, write, and deliver software and services to improve internal IT systems and platforms
• Solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation
• Work with Lambda Engineering to influence and create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems
• Engage in service capacity planning, demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning
• Produce documentation and related artifacts for responsible systems
• Design and deploy low-code/no-code and custom internal platforms integrated with LLM workflows
• Deploy, monitor, and optimize internal AI proxy gateways
• Integrate AI agents into internal IT workflows
• Manage deployments, serverless functions, and infra pipelines
• Implement guardrails, data-privacy controls, and secret management

Required qualifications

• 6+ years in software engineering, site reliability engineering, or IT systems engineering where you built and ran things in code
• Build & Scale Internal AI Tooling: Design and deploy low-code/no-code and custom internal platforms integrated with LLM workflows
• Manage AI Infrastructure & Gateways: Deploy, monitor, and optimize internal AI proxy gateways
• Automate Operational Pipelines: Integrate AI agents into internal IT workflows
• Maintain and Monitor Platform Health & CI/CD: Manage deployments, serverless functions, and infra pipelines
• Governance & Security: Implement guardrails, data-privacy controls, and secret management
• Collaborate and communicate asynchronously
• Record and document issues and solutions
• Enthusiastic, go-for-it attitude
• Urge for delivering quickly and effectively, and iterating fast

Nice to have

• Experience and interest in ML/AI workloads and compute
• Practical experience implementing and managing paging, alerting, and on-call scheduling flows
• A positive attitude, combined with a desire to learn and collaborate

Benefits

• 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

About the company

Lambda is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Founded in 2012, the company has 500+ employees and is growing fast.