Lila Sciences
Principal Engineer, Software (Enterprise Platform)
San Francisco, CA USA · Principal · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$204k-$310kDetected 28 days ago
PythonFastAPIAWSGCPKubernetesTerraformPlatform EngineeringAPI DevelopmentOAuthMachine LearningAgentic AIComplianceRecruitingHIPAABioinformaticsResearchCommunicationGxP
About the role
- Today we have the beginnings of multi-tenancy, identity and granular permissions and scopes, audit infrastructure, usage and billing.
- This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role.
- The systems built in this role will determine how large organizations safely adopt, govern, and scale AI-driven scientific workflows across teams, data domains, and regulatory environments.
Responsibilities
- Lila Sciences is building the infrastructure for autonomous science - AI systems that design experiments, run them in physical labs, and close the loop across life sciences, chemistry, and materials science.
- Design and evolve the core identity systems powering Lila's enterprise platform - organizations, groups, roles, SCIM provisioning, seat lifecycle management, and fine-grained authorization across experiments, datasets, models, and scientific workflows.
- Design tenant-aware schemas, metadata systems, and platform primitives that support highly heterogeneous scientific data across life sciences and materials science workloads.
- Drive architectural decisions around scalability, reliability, retention, and operational correctness.
- Track record building enterprise platforms in high-growth environments where speed-to-value mattered as much as long-term architecture
Requirements
- Experience with modern cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP) and event-driven systems, familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and containerized deployments
- You have practical experience with agentic systems and workflow automation where models take actions with real operational consequences in regulated environments.
- You've built self-service enterprise tooling for non-technical administrators and have thought carefully about the UX and API design required to make those systems usable.
Compensation
- We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity. Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.
- and a company subsidized lunch program.
- International Benefits. Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region. USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions
- international salaries are set to local market.
- Expected Base Salary Range
- $204,000 - $310,000 USD
Benefits
- U.S. Benefits.
- Full-time U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage
- employer-paid life and disability insurance
- flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
- paid parental leave
Company info
- Our platform enables this to operate reliably at scale for external customers who require security, auditability, and operational rigor.
- We're hiring a Principal Engineer, Enterprise Platform to build the foundational systems that make Lila ready for the world's largest pharmaceutical and research organizations.
- Enterprise customers require significantly more.
- This is a hands-on Principal Engineer role with broad architectural influence, high autonomy, and direct ownership of critical platform systems.
Visa & Work Authorization
- al employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status
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