Senior UX & AX Engineer for Multimodal Data Platform

LanceDB; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

LanceDB is seeking a seasoned software engineer to lead UX and platform experiences on the LanceDB data platform. You will collaborate across frontend and backend teams to deliver scalable and user-centric features on multi-modal data workloads.

You’ll own design parity, drive performance, and mentor engineers while building with Rust, TypeScript, React, Python, and Kubernetes in a fast-growing startup environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience across frontend and backend
• Experience with large-scale data platforms (databases, data infra, ML/AI)
• Hands-on with UI in Typescript, React/Next.js, and APIs
• Experience building user- and agent-oriented experiences
• Experience CSP stacks, Terraform, and k8s
• Ability to own ambiguous projects with minimal guidance
• Strong written and verbal communication to align across teams
• Comfort using data and metrics to guide decisions
• Contributors to open source communities a plus

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering to optimize user and agent experiences across the platform
• Build scalable backends for LanceDB Enterprise to support large datasets
• Develop and improve frontend and backend components using Rust, TypeScript, React, and Python
• Contribute to infrastructure and deployment tooling (Terraform, k8s)
• Drive architectural decisions with a focus on performance and usability

Skills

Software engineering experience

Frontend development

Backend development

Typescript

React/Next.js

Terraform

Kubernetes

Rust

Python

Open source

Multitenancy

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

LanceDB is seeking a seasoned software engineer to lead UX and platform experiences on the LanceDB data platform. You will collaborate across frontend and backend teams to deliver scalable and user-centric features on multi-modal data workloads.

You’ll own design parity, drive performance, and mentor engineers while building with Rust, TypeScript, React, Python, and Kubernetes in a fast-growing startup environment.