Lumos
Software Engineer, AI Agent Governance
$134K–$150K
United States · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 1+ years of professional software engineering experience, or an equivalent track record of shipping real products.
About the job
Build Lumos’s AI agent governance product, shipping backend features and systems that help customers govern agents’ access and activity.
What you'll do
- Ship backend features end to end, from customer requests through production, and participate in the on-call rotation.
- Build testing systems and harnesses that allow agents to ship changes safely.
- Work directly with customers when issues arise.
What they ask for
- Strong backend fundamentals, including building production APIs, databases, and services.
- Understanding of AI agents, including tool calls, MCP servers, hooks, and context.
- Comfort working in ambiguity and adapting to customer feedback.
- Ownership and willingness to work in a high-intensity, fast-moving product environment.
Nice to have
- Experience with endpoint or client software, such as MDM or software running on laptops.
- Security or identity background.
Pay
$133,500 - $150,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Postgres, OpenSearch, gRPC, AWS, MCP
AI focus
Build the governance layer for AI agents and use agents heavily in day-to-day engineering work.
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