Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

🚀 About Lila Sciences

Lila Sciences is the world’s first scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab for life, chemistry, and materials science.  We are pioneering a new age of boundless discovery by building the capabilities to apply AI to every aspect of the scientific method.  We are introducing scientific superintelligence to solve humankind's greatest challenges, enabling scientists to bring forth solutions in human health, climate, and sustainability at a pace and scale never experienced before. Learn more about this mission at  www.lila.ai    

At Lila, we are uniquely cross-functional and collaborative. We are actively reimagining the way teams work together and communicate. Therefore, we seek individuals with an inclusive mindset and a diversity of thought. Our teams thrive in unstructured and creative environments. All voices are heard because we know that experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way.

If this sounds like an environment you’d love to work in, even if you only have some of the experience listed below, please apply.

🌟 Your Impact at Lila

Join us in shaping the future of science! We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Software Engineer to join our software platform team, where you’ll collaborate with software engineers, lab scientists, and machine learning engineers to build cutting-edge infrastructure and tools that power automated scientific analysis, experiment orchestration and more. 

This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and infrastructure development, with a strong emphasis on Kubernetes and infrastructure as code. You will help design and scale the systems that support our scientific applications, ensuring that our platform is robust, reproducible, and a joy to use. 

🛠️ What You'll Be Building 

• Participate in the entire software development life cycle, focusing on building and maintaining Kubernetes-based infrastructure supporting scientific services and pipelines.
• Align development with strategic goals, ensuring platform tooling supports broader organizational needs.
• Develop platform tooling to streamline deployment, observability, and developer workflows.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure infrastructure supports fast iteration and reliable scaling.
• Contribute to infrastructure automation – building and maintaining Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes Operators, etc.
• Implement CI/CD best practices and advocate for DevOps culture across teams.
• Drive performance, security, and reliability improvements throughout the stack.
• Apply software engineering principles to platform and DevOps activities 

🧰 What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Minimum of 4 years of experience writing software in a commercial setting in Go or Python.
• Proficiency in Containerization, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Strong understanding of git best practices.
• Acute listening skills and patience to deeply understand user challenges.
• Experience implementing scalable software solutions.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and team-first mentality.  
• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders.
• Energetic self-starter and independent thinker with strong attention to detail.
• Eager to work with highly skilled and dynamic teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and technical setting. 

✨ Bonus Points For 

• Experience with GitOps, ArgoCD, Github Actions
• Experience with AWS and services (EKS, RDS, S3, etc.)
• Experience with Kubernetes Operators
• Experience with Crossplane 

🌈 We’re All In

Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

🤝 A Note to Agencies

Lila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Lila Sciences, and Lila Sciences will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.