Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA · HybridFull-time$230–383K/yrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Lambda seeks a Senior Software Engineer to develop and scale its cloud offering, including its website, APIs, systems, and internal tooling. The role builds React applications for customers managing AI computing resources, collaborates across teams, and contributes to frontend architecture, performance, design systems, and integrations. Telecommuting is allowed. The posting requires a master’s degree in computer science or a related field and at least four years of relevant experience.
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Full job description
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
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Lambda, Inc seeks a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco, CA to be responsible for developing and scaling our cloud offering. This will include developing and scaling the Lambda website, cloud application programming interfaces and systems, and internal software tooling for system deployment, management, and maintenance.
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Gather technical requirements and then develop high-quality software solutions with high feature velocity in collaboration with cross-functional teams (Design, Product, Engineering, Marketing).
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Work with backend engineers to design application programming interfaces, shape data contracts, and improve performance of application programming interfaces for frontend use cases.
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Perform code reviews and contribute to frontend architecture decisions.
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Code review is a crucial step in the software development process where developers systematically examine code to identify software defects and improve code quality.
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Develop responsive, feature-rich React software applications that enable customers to manage their AI computing resources.
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Modify existing software applications to optimize performance for speed, efficiency and usability.
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Translate software designs into delightful, interactive user interfaces (UIs). UIs are the visual elements and interactive features of software that enable users to interact with systems.
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Develop and maintain complex React-based SPA architectures using modern software features and patterns (e.g., Context Hooks). SPAs (Single-Page Applications) provide seamless navigation of software applications and create dynamic interfaces with real-time updates.
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Work across the full frontend software stack including state management, routing, server-driven UI, and API orchestration.
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Enhance our internal design system (e.g., component library, tokens, and accessibility standards).
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Drive front-end performance engineering which includes bundle optimization, lazy loading, code splitting, memory profiling, and Chrome DevTools performance investigations.
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Create robust communication architectures to interface with internal and third-party services/APIs.
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Build software integrations with marketing tools for user analytics and tracking. Telecommuting allowed for this position.
You
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Master’s or foreign equivalent to Computer Science or related field.
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Must have at least 4 years of experience in job offered or related occupations.
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Must have at least 1 year of prior work experience in each of the following:
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1.) Building user interface components using modern web technologies and frameworks such as React, Angular, StencilJS, or similar frameworks, using TypeScript;
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2.) Developing complex enterprise software systems and using modern testing frameworks such as Cypress and Jest for unit and end-to-end testing;
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3.) Modern frontend frameworks such as React, or similar frameworks;
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4.) Browser debugging and performance profiling tools;
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5.) Front-end architecture, including performance, accessibility, security and usability;
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6.) Building large-scale enterprise products.
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About Lambda
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Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
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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
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We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
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Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
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We offer generous cash & equity compensation
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Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
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Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
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401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
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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.
How this job compares
Set against the 38,872 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 14, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$230–383K/yr
- California median$163–243K/yr6,926 salary ranges
- US median$132–214K/yr31,450 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $307K, is 50% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 8,509 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 38,872 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (32,117 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 522 of the 38,872 open Software Engineer jobs (1%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Pay, requirements and demand for Software Engineer jobs
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