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Staff Engineer, Enterprise Externalization

Lila Sciences· Software
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San Francisco, CA$192k - $288kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior individual contributor role building enterprise-grade platform infrastructure for multi-tenancy, identity and permissions, metering, billing, audit, and self-service tenant management to enable large pharmaceutical and research customers to adopt autonomous science at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve core identity systems powering the 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.
  • Architect systems for tenant provisioning, usage metering, billing, data migrations, compliance workflows, and operational automation.
  • Push toward self-service and agentic operational workflows that reduce manual intervention while maintaining 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 ownership of critical platform systems.

Qualifications

  • 8+ 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:Authentication/AuthorizationMulti-tenancy and tenant isolationBilling/meteringPythonFastAPI

Benefits

  • We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity.
  • Full-time U.S. benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off with generous holidays; paid parental leave; educational assistance; commuter benefits; subsidized lunch program.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Pioneering Scientific Superintelligence

Pioneering Scientific Superintelligence to solve humankind’s greatest challenges.

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