Lightning AI
Senior Backend Engineer, Managed Services
$180K–$250K
New York, New York, United States +5 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 27, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States - Experience
- Significant professional experience; no specific number of years stated.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this position at this time.
About the job
Builds and operates backend control planes, services, and automation that provision and manage Kubernetes and Slurm clusters across large-scale GPU infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Develop backend services and control planes to provision, orchestrate, and manage Kubernetes and Slurm clusters.
- Automate cluster lifecycle management, workload scheduling, infrastructure provisioning, and platform operations.
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, security, and observability; troubleshoot production issues and contribute to architecture and on-call operations.
What they ask for
- Professional experience building and operating production backend systems using Go or Python.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or Slurm, including operating large-scale production environments.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, production infrastructure, networking, and storage.
- Experience building scalable backend services, APIs, and infrastructure or platform automation.
Nice to have
- Kubernetes platform development or Slurm/HPC experience.
- Experience with tools such as Terraform, Crossplane, Helm, Argo CD, Flux, or Kustomize, or with GPU infrastructure.
Pay
$180,000 — $250,000 USD base salary
Tools
Go, Python, Kubernetes, Slurm, Terraform, Crossplane, Helm, Argo CD
AI focus
Enables customer environments for training models, running inference, and deploying AI workloads on GPU infrastructure.
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