Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud Foundations

San Francisco Office (Fremont St) · San Jose Office (First St) · Bellevue · 6+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 28, 2026

At a glance

Experience: 6+ years experience
Employment: Full-time
Workplace: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco Office (Fremont St) · San Jose Office (First St) · Bellevue

- 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

The Cloud Foundations team manages the account, access, and network foundation for Lambda's cloud infrastructure.
This role involves implementing governance and access controls, including AWS account management, IAM, VPC structures, and Terraform execution platforms.
As a member of a new team, this position helps define scope and priorities while turning policy into automated, self-service controls for engineering teams.

Own and evolve the IaC execution platform, specifically Terraform and Atlantis.
Design and operate cloud account, access, and IAM structures including organizational hierarchy and permission models.
Manage the cloud network foundation including VPCs, Transit Gateway, and DNS.
Drive AWS cloud governance such as tagging standards, compliance guardrails, and cost visibility.
Implement least-privilege access and compliance automation to replace manual provisioning.
Shape the new team's scope, priorities, and service boundaries.
Participate in an on-call rotation.
Maintain documentation, reliability, and observability for owned systems.

6+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud platform, or cloud security engineering.
Deep experience managing AWS at scale including multi-account organizations, IAM, SCPs, and resource organization.
Strong foundation in infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, including modules, state management, and automated workflows.
Solid cloud networking fundamentals including VPC design, transit/hybrid connectivity, DNS, and edge/CDN configuration.
Proficiency in writing automation and tooling using Go or Python.
Experience using AI tools as part of the development workflow with a focus on verification and ownership.
Ability to build for scale and multiple use cases.
Comfortable with ambiguity and clarifying ownership.
Ability to distill complex problems and identify root causes.
Commitment to post-deployment ownership, monitoring, and measurement.

Experience building agentic workflows for infrastructure operations or governance.
Experience implementing controls for compliance programs like SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
Cloud cost management and FinOps experience.
Hands-on experience with Azure, GCP, or OCI.

Requires presence in San Francisco, San Jose, or Bellevue office 4 days per week.
Designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.

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