Senior Software Engineer - API Experience

Lambda•California, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The API Experience team is responsible for Lambda’s customer-facing Core Cloud APIs — everything from creating a new instance or attaching storage to managing VPCs. We deliver a delightful, consistent, and cohesive API-first experience to all our customers, from self-serve Public Cloud users to the largest, most demanding AI companies on the planet.

Requirements

Backend experience building business-critical services using Python, Unix/Command line, Django or FastAPI, and Postgres.
Proven experience owning complex features end-to-end, from defining problems with Product to GA release and measuring success criteria, in highly ambiguous environments under tight deadlines.
Proven ability to clearly communicate trade offs in scoping and timelines.
Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining developer-facing APIs and documentation.
CI/CD: Automation for testing and deployment workflows
Reliability & Observability: Logging, alerting, and building highly available systems
Cloud Native Services: Experience with AWS, Okta, Cloudflare, etc.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Kubernetes
Infrastructure as Code (e.g.,Terraform, Atlantis, Crossplane)
Experience in ML, AI, or data science
Application security and web hardening
Engineering leadership or mentorship experience

Responsibilities

Build end-to-end features for Lambda Cloud.
Contribute to both frontend and backend code across existing and new features.
Collaborate with Product Engineering, Platform, and Infrastructure teams to deliver solutions that cut across the stack.
Partner with Product Managers to design, scope, and deliver features that are critical to customer success, without compromising on our product quality.
Work directly with Superintelligence customers’ engineering teams.
Own production features and systems, including participating in incident response rotations.
Design and implement observability and maintenance processes for the new features we build.