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Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Luminai
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Hybrid (San Mateo, CA)$210k - $250kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and leading core platform development for an AI automation platform used in production environments. Focus on building scalable distributed systems, improving foundations, and delivering a stellar platform experience. In-office 4 days a week with optional Wednesday WFH, in San Francisco or New York.

Responsibilities

  • Languages and associated tooling (DSLs, parsers, compilers) for external and internal system abstractions
  • Architecting and maintaining distributed computing environments
  • Simplify system bottlenecks and proactively re-architect foundational abstractions to support scale
  • Lead core technical initiatives setting high quality foundations in the codebase
  • Define and scale experimentation, monitoring, reliability, and observability concepts for production systems
  • Drive improvements to the core Luminai IDE to deliver a stellar experience for end users
  • Help champion high performance engineering foundations and practices across the codebase

Qualifications

  • A minimum of 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, leading zero to one engineering projects
  • Proven track record of shipping high-quality code in challenging projects
  • Direct experience designing and implementing high performance systems in production and understanding architectural trade-offs
  • Prior experience or working familiarity with modern infrastructure stack (Kafka, Kubernetes etc.)
  • Knowledge of parallel computing concepts and distributed systems
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills and an ability to work across the stack

Skills

Required:Software engineering (general)
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Luminai

Luminai helps automate repetitive manual work away from your mission…

Luminai helps automate repetitive manual work away from your mission critical business processes. We're serving customers across insurance, healthcare, financial services, and more. Visit our website and see our customer case studies below: https://luminai.com Grateful to be backed by General Catalyst, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Moxxie Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, Unshackled Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Shrug Capital, Underscore VC, Weekend Fund, Liquid 2 Ventures, Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Yuri Sagalov, Chris Golda, Basement Fund, the founders and CEOs of Dropbox, Flexport, Notion, Deel, Front, Ramp, Coda, Rappi, Twitch, Lever, Algolia, Thredup, Pagerduty, Sendbird, the COO's of Stitchfix/Rippling, and the former heads of product of Twitter, Instagram, and Uber. We’ve raised $20 million till date. We’re hiring across all roles!

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