Lightning AI
Senior Software Engineer, Training & Experimentation
$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; no number of years specified.
- Visa sponsorship
- The company is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position at this time.
About the job
Builds and scales backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure for AI agent orchestration and long-running distributed workflows.
What you'll do
- Design backend services and platform capabilities for AI agent execution, tool use, workflow orchestration, memory, and state management.
- Improve reliability, observability, performance, and developer tooling for production workloads.
- Partner across teams to deliver agent capabilities and maintain software quality; 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.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
Pay
$180,000 — $250,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, Python, Rust, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes
AI focus
Builds backend infrastructure and platform capabilities for AI agent orchestration, execution, and distributed workflows.
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