Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Staff+) is open at Lightfield in HQ: San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $180K - $300K. Posted on Aug 3, 2026, and still on Lightfield’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We're building the infrastructure foundation for a fast-growing AI product company serving thousands of customers: - Our Postgres fleet serves 5B+ queries a month — roughly 2,500 QPS steady state, with sustained spikes past 25,000 QPS — and database workload more than doubled last month. - Redis sustains ~50,000 commands per second behind a job platform that executes 10M+ background job runs a day across ~170…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Lightfield’s careers page.
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Lightfield has 22 open roles right now. Most are in Engineering, Sales & Business Development and Data & Research. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $260K. See all its roles
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