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Principal Engineer, Software (Enterprise Platform)

Lila Sciences· Software
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Hybrid (SF)$204k - $310kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior individual contributor role focused on defining and building secure, scalable enterprise platform infrastructure to support multi-tenancy, identity, permissions, metering, billing, audit logging, and agentic AI-powered systems for self-service tenant management and compliant workflows at Lila Sciences.

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve core identity systems powering enterprise platform — organizations, groups, roles, SCIM provisioning, seat lifecycle management, and fine-grained authorization across experiments, datasets, models, and scientific workflows.
  • Define tenant isolation, policy evaluation, and access governance across the platform.
  • Design tenant-aware schemas, metadata systems, and platform primitives for heterogeneous scientific data across life sciences and materials science workloads; drive scalability, reliability, retention, and operational correctness.
  • Architect systems for tenant provisioning, usage metering, billing, data migrations, compliance workflows, and operational automation; push towards self-service and agentic workflows with strong safety guarantees.
  • Operate as a senior technical leader across platform engineering, infrastructure, security, AI/ML, and scientific application teams; hands-on with broad architectural influence and direct ownership of critical platform systems.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of software development experience, with a focus on Enterprise SaaS product development
  • Deep expertise in enterprise SaaS platform systems: authentication/authorization (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML), multi-tenancy, RBAC, billing/metering, configurations, SDK and APIs
  • Experience with modern cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP) and event-driven systems, familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and containerized deployments
  • Track record building enterprise platforms in high-growth environments where speed-to-value mattered as much as long-term architecture
  • Strong cross-functional communication skills and the ability to influence architecture across teams
  • Hands-on coding in Python and modern backend frameworks (FastAPI, async Python)
  • BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field of study

Skills

Required:Billing and metering systemsPython

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Employer-paid life and disability insurance
  • Flexible time off with generous company-wide holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Educational assistance program
  • Commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office-based employees
  • Company subsidized lunch program
  • International benefits tailored to region for non-U.S. employees
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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