Senior Backend Engineer - GPU Cloud Platform

Lightning AI; San Francisco, Seattle, New York (CA, WA, NY); Hybride; USD 180 000 - 250 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Comprehensive Health Coverage

Meaningful Equity

401(k) matching

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid work model

In-Office meals

Résumé du poste

Lightning AI is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Managed Services team to design, build, and operate backend services that power our GPU infrastructure platform. You will develop control planes and automation to provision and scale Kubernetes and Slurm clusters across a distributed environment.

This role focuses on distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and platform operations, with a hybrid office setup in SF/NYC/Seattle and a minimum of two in-office days per week.

Qualifications

• Significant professional experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems using Go or Python.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes or Slurm, including operating large-scale production environments.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and production infrastructure.
• Experience designing and building scalable backend services, APIs, and automation for infrastructure or platform operations.
• Strong understanding of networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals.
• Familiarity with observability, CI/CD, testing, production operations, and incident response.
• Ability to own complex technical projects while collaborating effectively across engineering teams.

Responsabilités

• Design, build, and operate backend services in Go or Python that power Lightning AI's managed infrastructure platform.
• Develop control plane services that provision, orchestrate, and manage Kubernetes and Slurm clusters across large-scale GPU infrastructure.
• Build distributed systems that automate cluster lifecycle management, workload scheduling, infrastructure provisioning, and platform operations.
• Develop platform capabilities using Kubernetes APIs, controllers, operators, and other cloud-native technologies.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, security, and observability of our managed platform through automation and operational excellence.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, AI, and platform engineering teams to shape the future of our cloud platform.

Connaissances

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Slurm

Distributed systems

Description du poste

Lightning AI is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Managed Services team to design, build, and operate backend services that power our GPU infrastructure platform. You will develop control planes and automation to provision and scale Kubernetes and Slurm clusters across a distributed environment.

This role focuses on distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and platform operations, with a hybrid office setup in SF/NYC/Seattle and a minimum of two in-office days per week.