Lila Sciences
Senior II/ Staff Software Engineer, Platform Operations
$180K–$288K
San Francisco, CA USA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 29, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA USA
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- 5+ years.
About the job
Build and operate production software, services, automation, and developer tools that support Lila’s platform operations, deployment, reliability, and scientific workloads.
What you'll do
- Develop applications, backend services, APIs, automation systems, and workflow integrations.
- Build safer, faster deployment workflows and improve reliability, observability, and operational readiness.
- Debug production issues and collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, ML, and scientific teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building production applications, services, or systems.
- Strong backend development skills in Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar languages.
- Experience designing APIs, services, automation workflows, and internal developer tools.
- Practical experience using agentic coding tools to improve engineering quality and output.
Nice to have
- Experience with platform, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure-adjacent software; observability, deployment safety, incident response, or operational tooling.
- Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI; experience supporting ML, inference, scientific, or data-intensive workloads.
Pay
$180,000 — $288,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, TypeScript, Go, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions
AI focus
Use agentic coding tools to improve code quality, test coverage, and delivery speed; support ML and inference workloads.
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