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Staff Backend Software Engineer

Lumafield · San Francisco, United States

External listingfull-time21 days ago

About The Role

Join Lumafield, a cutting-edge technology company, as a Staff Backend Software Engineer. In this role, you will work on the core of our cloud platform, leveraging Python to build scalable backends and lead complex data-heavy workflows. You will also own the backend architecture for our cloud software and collaborate closely with product managers and engineering leadership. This position offers a range of benefits, including health coverage, paid parental leave, equity, and a flexible vacation policy.

  • Architect and own the backend architecture for cloud software supporting various services, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Design, build, and operate scalable Python backends, Celery pipelines, and REST APIs, leading complex, data-heavy workflows.
  • Coach and mentor engineering team members across the organization in architecture best practices and principles, collaborating closely with product managers and engineering leadership.
  • Deep PostgreSQL and AWS data/storage (S3, RDS/Aurora); solid IAM and VPC-aware patterns
  • Async systems: Celery + Redis or equivalent—queues, retries, idempotency, backpressure, prod debugging
  • 2+ years of startup experience
  • Expert Python; 5+ years shipping production backends (Django / DRF a strong fit)
  • 10+ years of experience developing software, mostly backend
  • 5+ years production AWS; practical SageMaker (or similar) for services you orchestrate, not only notebooks
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a related field
  • Owned architecture for complex, cloud-hosted, data-heavy products
  • Experience designing for and complying with SOC2, ISO27001, ITAR, and other security compliance frameworks and standards
  • Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor engineering peers on architectural principles
  • Extensive experience with high-traffic, data-intensive web applications
  • Django + Celery at meaningful scale
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes and AWS architecture, security, and optimization
  • Regulated or export-controlled environments
  • High-throughput or large-payload APIs and pipelines

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