Senior Director of Network Reliability Engineering
Lambda is an AI infrastructure company providing GPU supercomputers and cloud capacity for AI training and inference.
About Lambda
Lambda, Inc. builds and operates AI-focused compute infrastructure, including single-tenant Superclusters, deployable 1-Click Clusters, and on-demand GPU Instances for researchers, enterprises, and hyperscalers.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will own end-to-end network reliability and lead break-fix operations, incident management, and network automation. You will establish a self-healing network strategy, define SLOs and error budgets, build safe remediation systems, lead engineering managers and senior engineers, and communicate reliability performance to executives and customers.
Requirements
- Have 8+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers and senior individual contributors
- Have led SRE, network reliability, or production operations organizations for large-scale cloud or data center networks
- Have a network or software engineering background and experience shipping production systems
- Have reduced toil and incident impact through automation
- Know large-scale network design and operations, including BGP, leaf-spine fabrics, optics, telemetry, and monitoring
- Have built closed-loop or event-driven remediation systems with safety controls
- Have led incident management at scale
- Be able to translate business goals into executable engineering plans and communicate during major incidents
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end network reliability, availability, time to detect, and time to restore
- Run break-fix operations, including fault detection, triage, hardware replacement, RMA, optics, and cabling remediation
- Lead incident management, on-call operations, escalations, customer communications, and postmortems
- Set the strategy for automated detection, isolation, traffic shifting, capacity restoration, and repair workflows
- Convert manual break-fix work into durable automation
- Define network SLOs and error budgets
- Build automation with safety controls, staged rollouts, audit trails, and rollback
- Hire, develop, retain, and organize engineering leaders and engineers
- Partner with engineering, data center operations, supply chain, vendors, customers, and senior leadership
- Improve organization-wide engineering planning, delivery, and incident-learning processes
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- 401k plan with 2% company match
- Flexible paid time off