Senior Network Engineer
Company websitelambda.ai (Lambda, opens in new tab)
Base salary $278K to $370K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA +1 more
This opportunity has 2 location variants. Pay shown applies only to the location named; other locations may differ.
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- LocationSan Francisco, CA +1 more
- WorkplaceHybrid
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (23 min ago) · observed since
All 4 locations
- San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
- San Jose Office (First St)
- San Jose Office (Zanker)
- Bellevue Office
About this job
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.
Source: Lambda on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)
This listingSenior Network Engineer$278K to $370K
Senior Technical Program Manager - Public Cloud$278K to $370K
Senior Software Development Engineer$284K to $378K
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - SDN$267K to $312K
Senior HPC Engineer - Fleet Engineering$267K to $356K
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage$267K to $356K
Staff Product Manager - Storage & Networking$291K to $387K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Senior Network Engineer (this listing) | $278K - $370K |
| Senior Technical Program Manager - Public Cloud | $278K - $370K |
| Senior Software Development Engineer | $284K - $378K |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer - SDN | $267K - $312K |
| Senior HPC Engineer - Fleet Engineering | $267K - $356K |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage | $267K - $356K |
| Staff Product Manager - Storage & Networking | $291K - $387K |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- fields changed
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-06-12
Where this pay comes from
$278K - $370K in San Francisco, CA +1 more
Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco / San Jose
USD 278,000 – 370,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary · San Francisco / San Jose
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- Rule set
- us-base-v2
The employer's job board publishes this pay as a dedicated data field. We read the field directly; no interpretation was needed.
$250K - $333K in United States
Location as the employer wrote it: Bellevue
USD 250,000 – 333,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary · Bellevue
- Method
- Structured pay field published by the employer
- Checked
- Rule set
- us-base-v2
The employer's job board publishes this pay as a dedicated data field. We read the field directly; no interpretation was needed.
What we verified
- The pay figures come from the employer's own listing, quoted exactly above.
- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
- The role was publicly listed on the employer's job board when last checked.
We do not verify what the employer will actually offer, whether the employer is still recruiting for the role, or anything beyond what the employer published. Full methodology.
