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Senior Software Engineer

Lightning AI · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

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About Lightning AI

From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don. Backed by Index.

About the role

Multiple position openings. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will design and implement microservices-based architecture for Lightning AI's core platform services. Position allows for occasional telecommuting within commuting distance of reporting office in San Francisco, CA.

What they're looking for

  • Position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Software or Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a closely related technical field (or foreign degree equivalent), and 5 years of relevant experience
  • Software engineering with a focus on backend/distributed systems,
  • Working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and/or Azure,
  • Working with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and microservices architecture,
  • Programming languages such as Go, Python, and/or Java,
  • Infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform and/or CloudFormation, and
More about this role

Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. Founded in 2019, we build an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems—designed to take ideas from research to production with less friction.

Through our merger with Voltage Park, a neocloud and AI Factory, Lightning AI combines developer-first software with cost-efficient, large-scale compute. Teams get the tools they need for experimentation, training, and production inference, with security, observability, and control built in.

We serve solo researchers, startups, and large enterprises. Lightning AI operates globally with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and London, and is backed by Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Firstminute.

The people who thrive here are builders who move fast, communicate openly, take ownership, and continuously improve themselves, their teams, and our company. Here's what that looks like in practice:

  • Move with Urgency: We move quickly, make thoughtful decisions, and keep momentum. We value action over perfection and learn by shipping.
  • Take Ownership: We own outcomes, not just our individual work. We make decisions that move the company...

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