About the position
Lightning AI is looking for a senior engineer who is passionate about making other developers' lives better. This role is focused on developer productivity, streamlining local dev workflows, CI/CD, observability, and test infrastructure. The engineer will identify friction, design solutions, and ship improvements that enhance the team's speed, stability, and cost-effectiveness. The position requires the engineer to have the same level of technical depth and autonomy as any other engineer, with a focus on optimizing cloud costs and partnering with product teams to build usage-aware tooling and guardrails. The role is hybrid, based in either the San Francisco or NYC office, with in-office requirements of 2 days per week. The salary range for this role is $180,000 - $215,000.
Responsibilities
- Drive the design, development, and implementation of tools, systems, and processes that accelerate engineering velocity, reduce manual effort, and increase the quality of output.
- Be a thought leader on engineering productivity, suggesting better practices and utilizing current technology for improved velocity.
- Monitor and analyze cloud expenditures for storage, compute, and other resources, setting up alerts and dashboards to track real-time costs and usage across environments.
- Identify areas of opportunity for savings on cloud cost and work to realize those savings.
- Architect CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment frequency and reduce manual intervention.
- Work with the team to design and deliver new and past features in a cost-effective way.
- Guide and advise product engineering teams on best practices for ensuring cost-effective, scalable systems.
- Collaborate deeply, bringing curiosity, empathy, and clarity to partnerships with engineers and stakeholders.
- Identify inefficiencies and proactively build solutions that make engineering teams faster and more reliable.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in engineering, including 2+ years of experience in infrastructure building tooling for developers.
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and tools for cost monitoring and optimization (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, GCP Cost Management).
- Expertise in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub, or GitLab.
- Solid troubleshooting skills with a track record of providing effective L2 support.
- Ability to code in Golang.
- Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries and stock options with a 25% one year cliff and monthly vesting thereafter.
- Medical, dental and vision insurance.
- Life and AD&D insurance.
- Flexible paid time off plus 1 week of winter closure.
- Generous paid family leave benefits.
- $500 monthly meal reimbursement, including groceries & food delivery services.
- $500 one time home office stipend.
- $1,000 annual learning & development stipend.
- 100% Citibike membership (NYC only).
- $45/month gym membership.
- Additional various medical and mental health services.
