Senior Software Engineer, Agents
Lightning AI1 month ago
London, United Kingdom +2 moreSenior
Base Salary
$180k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services for AI agent orchestration and execution
- Develop scalable APIs and platform capabilities for tool use, workflow orchestration, memory, and state management
- Build reliable infrastructure for long-running distributed AI workflows
- Partner with product, research, and platform engineering teams to deliver agent capabilities to production
- Improve platform reliability, observability, and performance as workloads scale
- Evaluate and strengthen technical architecture, engineering processes, and developer tooling
- Maintain software quality through testing, automation, continuous delivery, and proactive technical debt management
- Mentor engineers in system design, distributed systems, and backend engineering practices
Requirements
- Extensive experience building scalable backend systems with Go, Python, Rust, or similar languages
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, APIs, and cloud-native application architecture
- Experience designing and operating production services at scale
- Hands-on experience building backend platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure products
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure and container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
- Ability to own large technical initiatives from architecture through production
- Commitment to software quality, automated testing, observability, and continuous delivery
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to work effectively in fast-moving and ambiguous environments while balancing technical excellence with product impact
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents
- RSUs and discretionary bonus eligibility
- 401(k) matching in the U.S. and pension contributions in the U.K.
- Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and floating holidays
- Two-week company-wide winter break
- Paid parental and family leave
- Annual learning and development allowance
- Wellness and work-from-home stipends
- Four weeks of paid sabbatical leave after four years of service
- Hybrid work model with flexible schedules for office-based teams
- Complimentary meals at office hubs
- Role is based in the San Francisco, New York City, or London office hubs with at least two in-office days per week and occasional offsites
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About Lightning AI
Lightning AI builds an end-to-end platform for prototyping, training, and deploying AI systems, alongside open-source tools such as PyTorch Lightning and torchmetrics. It offers a browser-based studio and managed GPU infrastructure for teams ranging from solo researchers to large enterprises, with built-in observability and controls. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, the company merged with Voltage Park to pair developer-first software with large-scale, cost-efficient compute.