Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Position Overview

• Salary: $180K - $295K
• Location Type:
• Job Type: Full-Time

Luminai is at the forefront of automating complex, manual, and mission-critical internal processes for organizations worldwide using AI. We serve key sectors like Healthcare, Finance, and Telecommunications, enabling them to delegate critical workflows to autonomous AI systems. Our approach merges frontier AI development with a specialized workflow execution engine. We are backed by top Silicon Valley VCs and prominent investors, including leaders from OpenAI, Dropbox, Twitter, and major tech companies.

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be instrumental in the design, implementation, and leadership of our core platform development. This platform empowers organizations globally to deploy and scale AI automations in mission-critical production environments. As a senior member of the engineering team, you are expected to possess strong software engineering fundamentals and demonstrate exceptional ability in driving technical projects within ambitious technical settings. Your role will involve defining, architecting, and enhancing key system foundations to enable the engineering team's effectiveness and deliver an outstanding platform experience for users in a high-growth environment.

What you might work on

• Developing languages and associated tooling (DSLs, parsers, compilers) for external and internal system abstractions.
• Architecting and maintaining distributed computing environments.
• Simplifying system bottlenecks and proactively re-architecting foundational abstractions to support scale.
• Leading core technical initiatives and establishing high-quality foundations in the codebase.
• Defining and scaling experimentation, monitoring, reliability, and observability concepts for production systems.
• Driving improvements to the core Luminai IDE to deliver a stellar experience for end users.
• Championing high-performance engineering foundations and practices across the codebase.

Requirements

• A minimum of 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, including spearheading zero-to-one engineering projects.
• Proven track record of shipping high-quality code in challenging projects.
• Direct experience designing and implementing high-performance systems in production, with an understanding of key architectural trade-offs.
• Prior experience or working familiarity with modern infrastructure stacks (e.g., Kafka, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of parallel computing concepts and distributed systems.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to work across the full stack.

Bonus Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science from a top-tier institution or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge or interest in compilers, interpreters, and programming language design.
• Prior experience managing or leading engineering teams.