Senior Platform Engineer, Core Backend Systems
Lightning AI
Lightning AI is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and scale core platform services for researchers, startups, and enterprise AI teams. You’ll work on backend systems supporting authentication, resource management, multi-tenancy, and developer workflows.
This role is based in one of our San Francisco, NYC, or London office hubs, requiring a minimum of two in-person days weekly and collaboration with product, infrastructure, and AI engineering teams to improve reliability and
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