Software Engineer, NHI Platform

Lumos App Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 155,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Health insurance

Wellness stipend

Parental leave

Learning stipend

401(k) with match

Job summary

Lumos is hiring a Software Engineer for the NHI Platform in the United States. You will build the autonomous identity backbone and ship platform features used by thousands of IT and security teams daily.

Join a remote-first culture that values ownership, curiosity, and trust. You’ll work on scalable data infrastructure, define SLOs, and collaborate with teams to empower product success and reduce complexity across our ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 1+ year of backend or platform engineering experience.
• Experience building production systems used by other teams.
• Strong knowledge of APIs and relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate systems transforming identity data at scale.
• Contribute to a data infrastructure vision enabling teams and AI.
• Establish SLOs, observability, and tooling to catch failures early.
• Promote software engineering best practices for scalable data-centric apps.

Skills

Backend engineering

APIs (REST/gRPC)

Relational databases

PostgreSQL/MySQL

AWS

Docker / containers

Python

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Tools

Kafka

Terraform

Debezium

Temporal

Job description

Joining Lumos is about having a blank canvas in front of you, waiting for your vision.

Your mission isn't just handed to you; it's crafted by you, with the freedom to define what it means to excel.

Your ideas don't just spark interest; they ignite change. Let's illuminate the path together.

Build The Future of Autonomous Technology

What Drives Us Forward

Set the Standard

I have this innate passion and drive to create my career’s best work here. To get a great outcome, I crave feedback to get better, build a habit of urgency and climb mountains if needed. In short, I either find a way or make one, going above and beyond what’s expected.

Discover To Deliver

Curiosity combined with principled thinking can conquer any challenge. I don’t just assume what the problem is but I am curious to explore and ask “why.” Equipped with insights, I evaluate trade-offs and can showcase a clear reason why I took a certain action.

Paint In Pink

Painting in pink in B2B is about being playfully bold. One, I think big because optimism shapes reality. Two, I communicate and act with a smile, bringing levity into my interactions. Three, I win people’s hearts and minds through a novel story and a clear point of view.

Care Genuinely

I am eager to support co-workers and customers and proactively jump in to help – your problem is my problem. I believe it is with this unity that there is victory. So, I care and proactively work on my relationships with people.

Why Lumos

We’re revolutionizing how the world manages access, apps, and identities. The complexity of today’s digital landscape demands bold solutions, and Lumos leads the charge with autonomous, intelligent technology.

We foster a culture of innovation, where curiosity and impact go hand in hand. Here, you’ll tackle meaningful challenges, grow with inspiring teammates, and contribute to a mission that simplifies complexity and empowers productivity. Join Lumos and illuminate your potential.

Recognized Excellence

2023 | 2024

Remote By Design, Connected By Intention

We’re 100% remote, but deeply united. Whether you’re near our San Francisco hub or fully remote, you’ll feel a strong connection to the Lumos team.

Through annual offsites, in-person gatherings, and our "Humans of Lumos" spotlight, we celebrate stories and build lasting bonds. Flexibility meets genuine connection here.

Investing in What Matters Most — You

100% remote work culture (+/-4 hours from PST)

Hub office in SF

Medical, Vision, & Dental coverage

1 company offsite and 2 coworking trips every year

Up to four months of parental leave

$100 monthly wellness stipend

401k matching plan

$1,000 annual Learning and Development stipend

Reach New Heights With Inspiring People

“Lumos has given me the space to lead with both strategy and heart. As we scale, I’ve been trusted to evolve Support into a proactive, customer‑first function, and that sense of ownership makes the work incredibly rewarding.” Allie, Sr Manager, CS Engineering

“For me, the most important factor in deciding to join a new company are the people who work there. It’s important to be working with people who really care about what they’re doing and that’s exactly what I found here.” Ruben, Engineering Tech Lead Manager

“The trust I've received as a leader at Lumos has empowered me to be a champion for my team and their growth. Helping them stretch into new areas and amplify their impact across the company is the most rewarding aspect of my role.” Alix, COO

Bring Your Light to Lumos

Software Engineer, NHI Platform

Location

United States

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

Engineering

Every breach, every failed audit, every new hire stuck in onboarding purgatory traces back to the same question: who has access to what — and should they?

Lumos is the industry's first Autonomous Identity Platform — software that doesn't just surface access risk, but acts on it. We started with a self-service AppStore and grew into the critical infrastructure connecting apps, identities, and data for GitHub, MongoDB, Mars, Pinterest, Anduril, Intercom, Roku, and Netskope. At the center is Albus, our AI agent for identity — mining roles, approving access, and catching the drift humans miss.

You’ll ship work that thousands of IT and security teams touch every day. You’ll own problems without playbooks, because the category is being redefined in real time — by us.

Why Lumos?

• Jump on a rocketship. Since launching out of stealth in April 2022, we've grown from 20 to ~130 Alchemists and raised over $65M from a16z, Scale, Neo, Greg Brockman (President at OpenAI), and Phil Venables (CISO at Google).

• Customers love us — and so does the industry. Named a Strong Performer in the 2026 Gartner Voice of the Customer for IGA — 4.7/5, with 96% of reviewers saying they'd recommend us. Our customers cut time-to-access by 98%, slash IT tickets by 72%, and eliminate excess privilege at scale.

• A culture worth joining. Three years running on Forbes' Top 100 Best Startup Employers in America (2024, 2025, 2026) — measured on culture, retention, growth, and job creation. That's our Alchemists, not our marketing. See what we live by here .

Lumos is making it a joy for companies to manage their apps and identities. By integrating usage, spend, compliance, and access data, we provide a level of clarity and insight previously unimaginable. At the heart of our products is our identity data platform, the systems that ingest identity data from hundreds of third‑party integrations and turns it into the trusted, insight‑rich primitives that power every Lumos product.

As a Software Engineer on our NHI Platform team you will drive the evolution of our non‑human identity data backbone, the systems every Lumos product depends on. You will be instrumental in building robust, scalable, and reliable platform software. You will play a key role in designing and operating the software that turns raw identity inputs into a trusted foundation for the product.

We’re a startup that values ownership, curiosity, and trust—and we’re looking for engineers who love building platform infrastructure that enables teams to move faster while improving resilience and visibility.

Your Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate systems that transform high volumes of identity data from third‑party integrations to product consumers with correctness, freshness, and operational rigor.

• Contribute to the technical vision for a world‑class data infrastructure that empowers engineering, product, and AI teams, enabling seamless access to high‑quality data.

• Establish SLOs, observability, and operational tooling that catch and remediate failures in identity data systems before they reach customers.

• Promote and implement software engineering best practices for building scalable, reliable, and secure data‑centric applications. Elevate the principles of software engineering within the data domain.

What We're Looking For

• 1+ years of professional backend or platform engineering experience building production systems other teams depend on, such as ingestion, sync, or event‑driven pipelines.

• Strong backend fundamentals. You’ve built APIs (REST or gRPC) and services backed by relational databases like Postgres or MySQL, and you’ve evolved schemas on live tables. Our stack is Python, Postgres and Kafka on AWS.

• You care about correctness. You think about idempotency, ordering, retries vs. permanent failures, and dead‑letter handling, because downstream products take action on the data you produce.

• You operate what you ship. You’ve deployed containerized services to AWS, GCP or Azure, debugged from metrics, traces and logs, and been part of an on‑call rotation.

• You’re excited to build from the ground up. This is a greenfield team, and the systems you build become the foundation every other Lumos product runs on.

• Nice to have: Kafka, Temporal or change data capture (Debezium), Terraform, and familiarity with identity data like accounts, entitlements, service accounts and API keys.

What We Value

We also care about whether you would be a good fit for Lumos based on the values and characteristics that define how we achieve outcomes, not just your resume.

Lumos is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you require any reasonable accommodations, please let us know at any time.

Thank you for considering Lumos, we hope to hear from you!

Pay Range

• $155,000 - $200,000 plus equity + benefits (Note that this range is a good faith estimate of likely pay for this role; upon hire, the pay may differ due to skill and/or level of experience.)

Benefits and Perks

• Remote-first culture – Work from anywhere within ±4 hours of Pacific Time.

• Medical, dental & vision insurance – 100% of premiums covered for employees, 60% for dependents. HSA and FSA available with employer contribution. International benefits align with local standards.

• Mental health support – Access to mental health resources and support.

• Monthly wellness stipend – A monthly stipend for gym memberships, fitness apps, and whatever helps you recharge.

• Life & disability insurance – Life insurance, short-term disability, and long‑term disability coverage available.

• Flexible PTO – Flexible time off with a minimum annual requirement, because rest is part of doing your best work.

• Parental leave – Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for expecting parents.

• $1,000 annual learning stipend – An annual budget for courses, books, conferences, and certifications.

• Company & team offsites – Company and team bonding trips throughout the year, fully covered by Lumos.

• 401(k) with matching – Employer 401(k) matching to help you save for the future.

The autonomous identity platform. Agents that continuously govern access for every human, machine, and AI.