Lightning AI
Senior Software Engineer, Agents
$180K–$250K
London, England, United Kingdom +5 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 7, 2026
- Location
- London, England, United Kingdom
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
London, England, United Kingdom
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Extensive experience building scalable backend systems; experience designing and operating production services at scale. No specific number of years stated.
- Visa sponsorship
- Lightning AI is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position at this time.
About the job
Build backend systems and platform capabilities for orchestrating, executing, and managing production AI agent applications.
What you'll do
- Design and build backend services, APIs, and infrastructure for agent orchestration, tool use, workflows, memory, and state.
- Improve reliability, observability, performance, architecture, and developer tooling for distributed AI workloads.
- Partner across teams to bring agent capabilities into production, maintain software quality, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Extensive experience building scalable backend systems using Go, Python, Rust, or similar languages.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, APIs, and cloud-native architecture.
- Experience designing and operating production services at scale, and building backend platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure products.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
Pay
$180,000 — $250,000 USD (annual base salary)
Tools
Go, Python, Rust, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build infrastructure and backend platform capabilities for AI agent orchestration, tool execution, workflows, memory, state management, and long-running distributed AI applications.
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