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Build and operate backend services, control planes, and automation for Lightning AI’s managed Kubernetes and Slurm infrastructure. Develop distributed systems for cluster provisioning, lifecycle management, scheduling, observability, reliability, and scalability across large-scale GPU environments. Diagnose complex production issues and collaborate with infrastructure, AI, and platform engineering teams. Contribute to architecture, technical design, mentoring, engineering practices, and on-call operations.

Designs and implements microservices-based platform services, RESTful APIs, backend systems, infrastructure automation, and cloud integrations. Responsibilities include architecture planning, monitoring and alerting, production troubleshooting, disaster recovery, performance optimization, code reviews, mentoring, and sprint planning. The role requires extensive experience with backend and distributed systems, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, microservices, programming languages, infrastructure as code, networking, security, and scalability.

Own and scale Lightning AI’s global corporate tax function across a multi-entity organization. Lead federal, state, local, indirect, and property tax compliance; ASC 740 tax accounting; forecasting; audit support; M&A tax; risk management; and process automation. Build policies, controls, documentation, and a scalable tax operating roadmap while partnering with Finance, Accounting, FP&A, Legal, auditors, and external advisors.

Support multi-entity general ledger close activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, intercompany, payroll accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, leases, financial statements, and flux analysis. Help transform and document the close function through NetSuite implementation, process redesign, and control development. Support external audits and maintain accurate, auditable accounting records.

Designs, deploys, automates, and operates large-scale NVIDIA InfiniBand fabrics for GPU clusters. Manages UFM, switches, firmware, congestion control, routing, QoS, observability, troubleshooting, capacity planning, and incident response. Collaborates with AI platform, GPU infrastructure, storage, and systems teams to build reliable AI Factory environments.

Design end-to-end user experiences for AI and machine learning products, collaborating with product and engineering teams from strategy through release. Create user journeys, interaction designs, prototypes, and visual designs; conduct user research; engage with open-source AI and enterprise users; identify opportunities to reduce friction; and advocate for scalable design systems. This hybrid role requires strong product, interaction, and visual design skills in a fast-paced startup environment.

Design and build backend systems for AI agent orchestration, tool execution, workflow management, memory, and state handling. Develop scalable APIs and reliable infrastructure for distributed AI workflows, improve platform reliability and observability, and partner with product, research, and engineering teams to deliver agent capabilities. Own technical initiatives from architecture through production, maintain software quality through testing and continuous delivery, and mentor engineers on backend and distributed-systems practices.

Partners with senior business leaders on organizational design, team structure, leveling, promotions, compensation, employee relations, performance management, and exits. Builds manager capability, improves hiring quality, and develops scalable people processes with Legal, Total Rewards, and Finance. Supports globally distributed teams and helps reduce organizational risk through practical, high-impact systems and policies.

Own the company’s data infrastructure, including ETL/ELT pipelines, clean analytical tables, data quality, schema management, freshness monitoring, lineage, and alerting. Partner with engineering, product, ML, data science, and go-to-market teams to improve instrumentation and deliver reliable product and operational insights. This high-scope role requires hands-on technical leadership, data governance, and scaling analytics capabilities in a rapidly changing environment.

Develop and scale Lightning AI’s backend platform using Go, spanning APIs, infrastructure, billing, security, and integrations. Own features end to end, design reliable and scalable systems, improve architecture and performance, maintain software quality and continuous delivery, reduce technical debt, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with engineering, product, and design teams in a fast-changing SaaS environment.