Senior Platform Engineer — Cloud, CI/CD & Reliability

Lilasciences; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Lila Sciences is seeking a Senior II/Staff Software Engineer to design, build and operate platform operations software across services and internal tools. You will work close to infrastructure, reliability, CI/CD, and cloud systems to raise performance and delivery speed.

You’ll collaborate with ML engineers and scientific teams to support inference workloads, automation, and security, delivering durable software that scales with the platform.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and deployment systems.
• Strong debugging skills across application code, distributed systems, and production environments.
• Ability to design maintainable systems with clear interfaces, observability, and secure defaults.
• Strong communication skills and a track record of cross-functional engineering collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production applications, services, and internal tools for Platform Operations.
• Develop backend services, APIs, automation systems, and workflow integrations.
• Use agentic coding tools to accelerate delivery while improving code quality and test coverage.
• Build deployment and release workflows that make software delivery faster and safer.
• Improve reliability, observability, and operational readiness across software systems.
• Partner with infrastructure and platform teams on Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, and security.
• Create developer-friendly tooling that helps engineering teams ship and operate services.
• Debug complex issues across application code, infrastructure, and production environments.
• Apply sound software design practices to systems that need to scale and evolve.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Debugging

Observability

Software design

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Job description

Lila Sciences is seeking a Senior II/Staff Software Engineer to design, build and operate platform operations software across services and internal tools. You will work close to infrastructure, reliability, CI/CD, and cloud systems to raise performance and delivery speed.

You’ll collaborate with ML engineers and scientific teams to support inference workloads, automation, and security, delivering durable software that scales with the platform.