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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.
- Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco, San Jose, or Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Product Engineering at Lambda is responsible for building and scaling our cloud offering. Our scope includes the Lambda website, cloud APIs and systems as well as internal tooling for system deployment, management and maintenance.
For distributed AI workloads, GPU compute power is only one factor. High-performance networking and storage are essential for interconnecting these systems and supporting AI training and inference at scale.
Lambda’s Infrastructure Engineering team integrates advanced storage, networking, and compute hardware to build high-performance clusters.
Our expertise lies at the intersection of:
- High-Performance Distributed Storage Solutions: We deploy and maintain the storage systems that provide customer training and inference datasets at the speeds demanded by modern clustered GPUs.
- Software Defined Networking: We deploy software defined network overlays that provide multi-tenant security and intelligent routing without compromising performance, using the latest in high-performance networking hardware.
- Compute Virtualization: We enable virtualization that allows AI researchers and engineers to focus on AI workloads, not AI infrastructure.
- Cluster Integrity: We own the cluster integrity lifecycle: validating deployments, diagnosing performance and health across hardware and fabrics, and providing proactive remediation.
Responsibilities
- Validation Design: Author comprehensive performance and correctness validation plans for new storage tiers.
- Standardization: Draft Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and alerting/monitoring frameworks to scale operations.
- Security & Access: Own the access-control lifecycle for storage solutions, managing both vendor and customer permissions.
- Strategic Partnerships: Lead technical communications with vendors and act as a subject matter expert (SME) for customer success and complex account assistance.
- Leadership: Identify and act on signals for operational ownership; mentor junior engineers in specific storage sub-domains.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale multi-petabyte storage production environments
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A strong understanding of diverse storage solutions and their ecosystems:
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Familiarity with one or more storage solutions of the following vendors: Vast, Weka, DDN, NetApp, PureStorage, Dell, IBM, HPE
- File, Block, and Object storage types
- Storage Network Access Protocols such as NFS, SMB, and POSIX-compliant protocols.
- NVMEoverFabricStorage Transport Protocols: NVME/TCP, NVME/IB, or NVME/RoCE
- Storage performance via RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, parallel file systems
- Encryption, storage security, and multi-tenancy strategies
- Storage data-reduction, compression, and encryption
- Backup and data protection
- 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with Kubernetes, including CSI and COSI drivers and CNI’s
- Deep understanding of storage performance
- Strong understanding of public cloud features (e.g., SDN, block storage, distributed file systems, identity management)
- Experience deploying, operating, and maintaining Software Defined Storage
- Have implemented either open-source or commercial monitoring solutions of storage and storage-adjacent solutions
SALARY RANGE INFORMATION
The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
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
A FINAL NOTE
You do not need to match all of the listed expectations to apply for this position. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.
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.
COMPENSATION RANGE
- Compensation Range: $296K - $445K
INTRODUCTION
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.
- Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco, San Jose, or Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Product Engineering at Lambda is responsible for building and scaling our cloud offering. Our scope includes the Lambda website, cloud APIs and systems as well as internal tooling for system deployment, management and maintenance.
For distributed AI workloads, GPU compute power is only one factor. High-performance networking and storage are essential for interconnecting these systems and supporting AI training and inference at scale.
Lambda’s Infrastructure Engineering team integrates advanced storage, networking, and compute hardware to build high-performance clusters.
Our expertise lies at the intersection of:
- High-Performance Distributed Storage Solutions: We deploy and maintain the storage systems that provide customer training and inference datasets at the speeds demanded by modern clustered GPUs.
- Software Defined Networking: We deploy software defined network overlays that provide multi-tenant security and intelligent routing without compromising performance, using the latest in high-performance networking hardware.
- Compute Virtualization: We enable virtualization that allows AI researchers and engineers to focus on AI workloads, not AI infrastructure.
- Cluster Integrity: We own the cluster integrity lifecycle: validating deployments, diagnosing performance and health across hardware and fabrics, and providing proactive remediation.
Responsibilities
- Validation Design: Author comprehensive performance and correctness validation plans for new storage tiers.
- Standardization: Draft Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and alerting/monitoring frameworks to scale operations.
- Security & Access: Own the access-control lifecycle for storage solutions, managing both vendor and customer permissions.
- Strategic Partnerships: Lead technical communications with vendors and act as a subject matter expert (SME) for customer success and complex account assistance.
- Leadership: Identify and act on signals for operational ownership; mentor junior engineers in specific storage sub-domains.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale multi-petabyte storage production environments
-
A strong understanding of diverse storage solutions and their ecosystems:
-
Familiarity with one or more storage solutions of the following vendors: Vast, Weka, DDN, NetApp, PureStorage, Dell, IBM, HPE
- File, Block, and Object storage types
- Storage Network Access Protocols such as NFS, SMB, and POSIX-compliant protocols.
- NVMEoverFabricStorage Transport Protocols: NVME/TCP, NVME/IB, or NVME/RoCE
- Storage performance via RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, parallel file systems
- Encryption, storage security, and multi-tenancy strategies
- Storage data-reduction, compression, and encryption
- Backup and data protection
- 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with Kubernetes, including CSI and COSI drivers and CNI’s
- Deep understanding of storage performance
- Strong understanding of public cloud features (e.g., SDN, block storage, distributed file systems, identity management)
- Experience deploying, operating, and maintaining Software Defined Storage
- Have implemented either open-source or commercial monitoring solutions of storage and storage-adjacent solutions
SALARY RANGE INFORMATION
The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
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
A FINAL NOTE
You do not need to match all of the listed expectations to apply for this position. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.
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.
COMPENSATION RANGE
- Compensation Range: $296K - $445K
How to Get Visa Sponsorship as a Senior Storage Engineer
Target employers with existing storage infrastructure teams
Large enterprises running NetApp, Pure Storage, or EMC environments maintain dedicated storage teams and sponsor visas regularly. These employers already understand the specialty occupation classification, which reduces friction during the H-1B petition process considerably.
Document your specialization clearly on your resume
USCIS scrutinizes specialty occupation claims closely. Your resume should explicitly name storage technologies, protocols, and platforms you've worked with. SAN, NAS, NVMe, and object storage experience signals the technical depth that supports a strong H-1B petition.
Understand that cloud providers are your strongest sponsorship allies
AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure sponsor storage engineers at high volumes annually. These companies have established immigration programs, dedicated legal teams, and deep familiarity with the H-1B and L-1 petition process for infrastructure engineering roles.
A computer science or electrical engineering degree strengthens your case
USCIS expects a direct relationship between your degree field and the role. Storage engineering sits firmly within computer science and electrical engineering. Degrees in adjacent fields may require additional documentation to establish the specialty occupation connection.
Start conversations with employers about sponsorship before the H-1B lottery
The H-1B registration window opens in March. Employers need time to file the LCA with the Department of Labor before registering. Raise sponsorship early in the interview process so your employer can meet deadlines without rushing the paperwork.
Australian citizens should ask about E-3 visa eligibility specifically
The E-3 visa applies only to Australian nationals and has no lottery. Senior Storage Engineer roles qualify as specialty occupations under E-3, and the 10,500 annual allocation has never been fully used, making approval far more predictable than H-1B.
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Does a Senior Storage Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. Senior Storage Engineer roles consistently qualify as specialty occupations because the position normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a closely related field. USCIS has a well-established record of approving H-1B petitions for storage engineering positions, particularly when the job description references specific technical domains like SAN architecture, NVMe-oF, or distributed file systems.
Which visa types do Senior Storage Engineers most commonly receive sponsorship for?
H-1B is the most common path, filed by employers after winning the annual lottery. L-1B is an option if you've worked for the same multinational employer abroad for at least one year in a specialized knowledge capacity. Australian citizens can pursue the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and is renewable indefinitely. EB-2 and EB-3 employment-based green cards are also standard for this role at larger employers.
How can I find Senior Storage Engineer jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for roles that offer visa sponsorship, so you're not wasting time on positions that won't work for your immigration status. Storage engineering roles from enterprise employers and cloud providers appear regularly. Searching by role title on Migrate Mate lets you focus on companies already set up to sponsor H-1B, E-3, or green card applicants.
My storage engineering degree is from outside the U.S. Will USCIS accept it for an H-1B petition?
Generally yes, but a credential evaluation from a NACES-approved organization is required. USCIS accepts foreign degrees that are equivalent to a U.S. bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field. Three-year bachelor's degrees, common in countries like Australia and India, may be accepted with supporting documentation, though some petitions require additional evidence to establish equivalency.
Can work experience substitute for a degree in a Senior Storage Engineer H-1B petition?
It can, but the bar is high. USCIS applies a three-for-one rule: three years of specialized work experience may substitute for one year of college education. For a four-year bachelor's equivalent, you'd need 12 years of progressively responsible storage engineering experience. In practice, USCIS scrutinizes experience-only petitions more heavily, and detailed letters from past employers documenting the technical depth of your work become critical supporting evidence.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Senior Storage Engineer jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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