Lightning AI
Senior Software Engineer
$206K–$217K
Seattle, Washington, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years of relevant experience; at least 5 years in each listed technical 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 backend platform services, including resource-management APIs, infrastructure automation, and cloud integrations.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs and backend services; develop infrastructure provisioning tools and cloud integrations.
- Plan architecture, implement monitoring and disaster-recovery solutions, and optimize performance and resource use.
- Troubleshoot production issues, review code, mentor junior 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 five years of backend/distributed-systems software engineering experience.
- At least five years working with cloud platforms; Kubernetes and microservices; Go, Python, and/or Java; infrastructure-as-code; and networking, security, and scalability concepts.
- At least five years of relevant experience.
Pay
$206,086 — $217,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Go, Python, Java, Terraform
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