Staff Engineer, Enterprise Externalization
Lila Sciences3 hours ago
Base Salary
$192k - $272k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve enterprise identity systems covering organizations, groups, roles, SCIM provisioning, seat lifecycle management, authentication, and fine-grained authorization.
- Define tenant isolation, policy evaluation, access governance, tenant-aware schemas, metadata systems, and platform primitives for heterogeneous scientific data.
- Architect and deliver tenant provisioning, usage metering, billing, data migrations, audit logging, compliance workflows, and operational automation.
- Build self-service and agentic operational workflows, customer observability capabilities, the Lila SDK, MCP, and AI-native external APIs.
- Own critical platform systems and influence architecture across platform engineering, infrastructure, security, AI/ML, and scientific application teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience focused on Enterprise SaaS product development.
- Deep expertise in authentication and authorization, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, multi-tenancy, RBAC, billing, metering, configurations, SDKs, and APIs.
- Experience with modern cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS or GCP, event-driven systems, infrastructure-as-code, and containerized deployments.
- Track record building enterprise platforms in high-growth environments while balancing speed-to-value with long-term architecture.
- Hands-on coding experience in Python and modern backend frameworks, including FastAPI and async Python.
- BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills and the ability to influence architecture across teams.
Benefits
- Competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity.
- U.S. full-time employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off; company-wide holidays; paid parental leave; educational assistance; commuter benefits including bike share memberships for office-based employees; and a subsidized lunch program.
- International full-time employees receive regionally tailored benefits.
- The role is a full-time position, with USD salary ranges applying only to U.S.-based positions.
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About Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences builds an AI-driven research platform and autonomous lab systems for life science, chemistry, and materials R&D teams. Its products combine large AI models with robotic instruments to plan, run, and analyze experiments, integrating into customer-specific scientific workflows. The privately held company serves pharma, materials, and energy organizations and is venture-backed, including a Series A financing in 2025.