Senior Backend Engineer, Managed Services is open at Lightning AI in New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States. The posting gives a salary of $180K - $250K. Posted on Jul 27, 2026, and still on Lightning AI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Design, build, and operate backend services in Go or Python that power Lightning AI's managed infrastructure platform. Develop control plane services that provision, orchestrate, and manage Kubernetes and Slurm clusters across large-scale GPU infrastructure. Build distributed systems that automate cluster lifecycle management, workload scheduling, infrastructure provisioning, and platform operations.. Develop…
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