Lightning AI
Senior Software Engineer
$221K
San Francisco, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years of relevant experience; at least five years in each listed area.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Software or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related technical field (or foreign degree equivalent).
About the job
Designs and builds microservices-based core platform services, including backend APIs and infrastructure tools for resource management.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs and backend services; develop infrastructure provisioning tools and integrate cloud services.
- Plan architecture, implement monitoring and disaster recovery, and optimize system performance and resource use.
- Troubleshoot production issues, review code, mentor engineers, and participate in technical and sprint planning.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Software or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related technical field (or foreign degree equivalent).
- At least 5 years of backend/distributed-systems software engineering experience and at least 5 years working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure).
- At least 5 years working with Kubernetes and microservices architecture; at least 5 years programming with Go, Python, and/or Java.
- At least 5 years with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation) and networking, security, and scalability concepts.
Pay
$221,187 — $221,187 USD (base salary)
Tools
RESTful APIs, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Go, Python, Java
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