Lumos
Technology
SoftwareEngineer,DataPlatform
Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.
“Software Engineer, Data Platform at Lumos. Skills: Data Platform Engineering, Identity Data, Backend Development. Design systems that transform identity data. Develop systems that transform identity data”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
Work within +/- 4 hours of Pacific Time
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3-7 Years of experience as a backend or platform engineer, Experience building production data systems, Experience with ingestion and sync pipelines, Experience with service layers in front of a transactional database, Backend development skills in Python, Go, or TypeScript, Experience designing service or API interfaces over a transactional datastore, Familiarity with identity and access governance (IGA) data
Nice to Have
Dagster, Airflow, or comparable orchestration experience, MySQL/Postgres experience
What You'll Do.
Design systems that transform identity data
Develop systems that transform identity data
Operate systems that transform identity data
Build shared primitives
Abstract raw identity data
Contribute to technical vision
Empower engineering teams
Empower product teams
Establish observability
Establish operational tooling
Catch failures in data systems
Remediate failures in data systems
Promote software engineering best practices
Implement software engineering best practices
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; AI teams; Product teams; Engineering teams
Full Job Description
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. Why Lumos? - 🚀 Jump on a rocketship. Since launching out of stealth in April 2022, we've grown from 20 to ~130 Alchemists and raised over $65M from a16z, Scale, Neo, Greg Brockman (President at OpenAI), and Phil Venables (CISO at Google). - ⭐ Customers love us — and so does the industry. Named a Strong Performer in the 2026 Gartner Voice of the Customer for IGA — 4.7/5, with 96% of reviewers saying they'd recommend us. Our customers cut time-to-access by 98%, slash IT tickets by 72%, and eliminate excess privilege at scale. - 🏆 A culture worth joining. Three years running on Forbes' Top 100 Best Startup Employers in America (2024, 2025, 2026) — measured on culture, retention, growth, and job creation. That's our Alchemists, not our marketing. See what we live by here https://blog.lumos.com/p/the-anatomy-of-an-alchemist. At the heart of our products is our identity data platform, the systems that ingest identity data from hundreds of third-party integrations and turns it into the trusted, insight-rich primitives that power every Lumos product. As a Software Engineer on our Data Platform team you wi
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