Lambda

Senior Software Engineer – Billing & Identity

Lambda · San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA $380K–$445K Posted 2026-08-25
Salary
$380K–$445K
Type
Full-time
Experience
1+ yr

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.

What You’ll Do

  • Architect, design, and develop complex distributed systems and computer applications for processing massive amounts of data and usage events
  • Design and build report interfaces and data feeds for downstream financial systems to ensure financial accuracy.
  • Create consumer software products for billing and pricing features using Golang and Python programming languages by iteratively taking technical design requirements from the design team and product requirements from the product teams.
  • Responsible for improving software quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate software testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes.
  • Establish best practices for enabling continuous integrations deployments a week and setup a clean process to rollback changes as needed.
  • Track system and software key performance indicators (KPIs), revenue impact, response times, and latency to make data-driven recommendations for continuous improvement.

Some telecommuting permitted (hybrid).

You

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field plus 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer or related occupation.
  • Must have at least 1 year of prior work experience in each of the following:

1. Industry-standard coding languages, including Python and GoLang

2. Databases, Storage & Analysis, including SQL, Hive, Presto, DynamoDB, and S3

3. Software development tools and revision control systems, including VIM, GIT, and shell scripting

4. Building highly-scalable performant solutions

5. Applying algorithms and core computer science concepts to real world systems as evidenced by recognizing and matching patterns from different areas of computer science in production systems

6. Designing scalable distributed systems with established partition tolerance, consistency, and availability guarantees.

#LI-DNI #LI-NDI #LI-DNP

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.

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