Backend Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>Who We Are</strong></h2> <p>Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. Founded in 2019, we build an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems—designed to take ideas from research to production with less friction.</p> <p>Through our merger with Voltage Park, a neocloud and AI Factory, Lightning AI combines developer-first software with cost-efficient, large-scale compute. Teams get the tools they need for experimentation, training, and production inference, with security, observability, and control built in.</p> <p>We serve solo researchers, startups, and large enterprises. Lightning AI operates globally with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and London, and is backed by Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Firstminute.</p> <div class="c-message_actions__container c-message__actions">&nbsp;</div></div><h2><strong>What We're Looking For</strong></h2> <p>We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to help develop and scale the Lightning AI platform, spanning APIs, infrastructure, billing, security, and integrations. In this role, you’ll take ownership of key features and drive them end-to-end, working closely with engineering, product, and design to ship high-quality, iterative improvements.&nbsp;This is an opportunity to build systems that support real-world machine learning workloads at scale.</p> <p>This role is based in one of our hubs (Seattle, NYC, SF, or London), with a minimum of 2 in-office days per week and occasional team and company offsites. We are not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position at this time.</p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Write readable/testable/efficient code in Go (Golang).</li> <li>Build deep expertise in our technology stack to deliver new features, improve system stability, and increase overall performance.</li> <li>Partner with engineering and product leaders on developing the Lightning product while us