Software Engineer, NHI Platform

About the role

Every breach, every failed audit, every new hire stuck in onboarding purgatory traces back to the same question: who has access to what - and should they?

Identity is where modern companies break. Too much access leaks data. Too little grinds the business to a halt. Lumos is the industry's first Autonomous Identity Platform - software that doesn't just surface access risk, but acts on it. We started with a self-service AppStore and grew into the critical infrastructure connecting apps, identities, and data for GitHub, MongoDB, Mars, Pinterest, Anduril, Intercom, Roku, and Netskope. At the center is Albus, our AI agent for identity - mining roles, approving access, and catching the drift humans miss.

You'll ship work that thousands of IT and security teams touch every day. You'll own problems without playbooks, because the category is being redefined in real time - by us.

Your Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate systems that transform high volumes of identity data from third-party integrations to product consumers with correctness, freshness, and operational rigor.
• Contribute to the technical vision for a world-class data infrastructure that empowers engineering, product, and AI teams, enabling seamless access to high-quality data.
• Establish SLOs, observability, and operational tooling that catch and remediate failures in identity data systems before they reach customers.
• Promote and implement software engineering best practices for building scalable, reliable, and secure data-centric applications. Elevate the principles of software engineering within the data domain.

What We're Looking For

• 1+ years of professional backend or platform engineering experience building production systems other teams depend on, such as ingestion, sync, or event-driven pipelines.
• Strong backend fundamentals. You’ve built APIs (REST or gRPC) and services backed by relational databases like Postgres or MySQL, and you’ve evolved schemas on live tables. Our stack is Python, Postgres and Kafka on AWS.
• You care about correctness. You think about idempotency, ordering, retries vs. permanent failures, and dead-letter handling, because downstream products take action on the data you produce.
• You operate what you ship. You’ve deployed containerized services to AWS, GCP or Azure, debugged from metrics, traces and logs, and been part of an on-call rotation.
• You’re excited to build from the ground up. This is a greenfield team, and the systems you build become the foundation every other Lumos product runs on.
• Nice to have: Kafka, Temporal or change data capture (Debezium), Terraform, and familiarity with identity data like accounts, entitlements, service accounts and API keys.

What We Value

• We also care about whether you would be a good fit for Lumos based on the values and characteristics that define how we achieve outcomes, not just your resume.
• Thank you for considering Lumos, we hope to hear from you!

Pay Range

• $155,000 - $200,000 plus equity + benefits (Note that this range is a good faith estimate of likely pay for this role; upon hire, the pay may differ due to skill and/or level of experience.)

Benefits and Perks

• Remote-first culture - Work from anywhere within ±4 hours of Pacific Time.
• Medical, dental & vision insurance - 100% of premiums covered for employees, 60% for dependents. HSA and FSA available with employer contribution. International benefits align with local standards.
• Mental health support - Access to mental health resources and support.
• Monthly wellness stipend - A monthly stipend for gym memberships, fitness apps, and whatever helps you recharge.
• Life & disability insurance - Life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage available.
• Flexible PTO - Flexible time off with a minimum annual requirement, because rest is part of doing your best work.
• Parental leave - Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for expecting parents.
• $1,000 annual learning stipend - An annual budget for courses, books, conferences, and certifications.
• Company & team offsites - Company and team bonding trips throughout the year, fully covered by Lumos.
• 401(k) with matching - Employer 401(k) matching to help you save for the future.