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About the role
Lumos is the industry's first Autonomous Identity Platform, providing software that doesn't just surface access risk, but acts on it. We began with a self-service AppStore and have grown into critical infrastructure connecting apps, identities, and data for major companies like GitHub, MongoDB, and Pinterest. At our center is Albus, an AI agent for identity that mines roles, approves access, and c
Lumos is making it a joy for companies to manage their apps and identities by integrating usage, spend, compliance, and access data. As a Software Engineer on our NHI Platform team, you will drive the evolution of our non-human identity data backbone, the systems every Lumos product depends on. You will play a key role in designing and operating the software that turns raw identity inputs into a t
We are a remote-first startup that values ownership, curiosity, and trust. Since launching in 2022, we have grown to ~130 employees and raised over $65M from top investors including a16z and Scale. We have been named to Forbes' Top 100 Best Startup Employers for three consecutive years.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and operate systems that transform high volumes of identity data from third-party integrations with correctness and freshness.
- Contribute to the technical vision for a world-class data infrastructure that empowers engineering, product, and AI teams.
- Establish SLOs, observability, and operational tooling to catch and remediate failures in identity data systems.
- Promote and implement software engineering best practices for building scalable, reliable, and secure data-centric applications.
What they're looking for
- 1+ years of professional backend or platform engineering experience building production systems like ingestion or sync pipelines.
- Strong backend fundamentals including building APIs (REST or gRPC) and services backed by relational databases like Postgres or MySQL.
- Experience evolving schemas on live tables.
- Knowledge of idempotency, ordering, retries vs. permanent failures, and dead-letter handling.
- Experience deploying containerized services to AWS, GCP or Azure and debugging from metrics, traces, and logs.
- Experience participating in an on-call rotation.
Nice to have
- Kafka
- Temporal
- Change data capture (Debezium)
- Terraform
- Familiarity with identity data like accounts, entitlements, service accounts and API keys
From the company page
Lumos benefits
◉ Remote policy · in their words
“Remote by design, connected by intention. We’re 100% remote, but deeply united.”
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The hot takeJeff's read on Lumos
I like A LOT about what I see from Lumos, including their 4.7 Glassdoor rating, full medical benefits, wellness stipends, and $1k annual learning and development stipends.
The only thing (in my mind) that keeps Lumos from moving into the top tier of work-from-anywhere companies is their +/- 4 hour PST timezone restriction. That covers a lot of territory, but would limit digital nomads to only travel in the Americas. It's not clear whether or not you have to be physically located within the +/- 4 hour window, or if they will let you work those hours from anywhere. 🏋🏾♀️ Health and wellness: $100 bucks a month for health and wellness spend.
👶🏾 Parental leave: Up to 4 months of it. 📚 Learning budget: $1,000 bucks a year on learning and development spend. 🌴 Unlimited PTO: But make sure you actually use it!