LILA has created the world's first Operating System for Science powered by Scientific Superintelligence™. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
Lila Sciences is building the infrastructure for autonomous science — AI systems that design experiments, run them in physical labs, and close the loop across life sciences, chemistry, and materials science. Our platform enables this to operate reliably at scale for external customers who require security, auditability, and operational rigor. We’re hiring a Staff Engineer, Enterprise Platform to build the foundational systems that make Lila ready for the world’s largest pharmaceutical and research organizations.
What they're looking for
- 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)
More about this role
Lila Sciences is building the infrastructure for autonomous science — AI systems that design experiments, run them in physical labs, and close the loop across life sciences, chemistry, and materials science. Our platform enables this to operate reliably at scale for external customers who require security, auditability, and operational rigor.
We’re hiring a Staff Engineer, Enterprise Platform to build the foundational systems that make Lila ready for the world’s largest pharmaceutical and research organizations.
Today we have the beginnings of multi-tenancy, identity and granular permissions and scopes, audit infrastructure, usage and billing. Enterprise customers require significantly more. You will drive core enterprise capabilities to production: multi-tenancy and tenant isolation, enterprise identity and permissions to support the full lifecycle of the Lila Platform, metering and billing infrastructure, audit logging, etc. You will push the frontier — building agentic AI-powered systems for self-service tenant management, intelligent customer observability, automated compliance workflows, Lila SDK, MCP, and AI-native external APIs that let customers and third-party agents...
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