Luminary Cloud is transforming how the world's most innovative companies generate vast amounts of CFD simulation data for Physics AI, design exploration, and optimization. Backed by Sutter Hill Ventures, our Series B startup is at the forefront of the transition to Physics-based AI through our scalable cloud platform.

Key Duties, Responsibilities, and Deliverables

• Working with a team of backend & infrastructure devs, leading by being hands on, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Architect, design, and develop robust and scalable backend systems and APIs, ensuring high performance, availability, and data integrity.
• Implement and oversee best practices for code quality, maintainability, and security in backend development.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams within engineering and across the organization, to ensure the successful delivery of features and products.
• Delivering software with quality and enterprise readiness 
• Lead efforts to enhance infrastructure, including containerization, orchestration, and cloud-based solutions (GCP preferred), to support our applications' growth.
• Collaborate with security experts to develop and maintain a strong security posture, implementing measures to protect against threats and vulnerabilities.
• Create and maintain documentation for system architecture, infrastructure, and security practices.
• Implement and oversee strategies for scalability and performance optimization, ensuring our systems can handle increased loads.

Expertise and Qualifications

• Have a strong 10+ years of building highly performant, scaleable, distributed systems (or equivalent experience).
• Proven experience as a backend developer or software engineer, with a strong focus on designing and implementing scalable saas systems.
• Demonstrated experience in leading and mentoring a team of developers.
• Expertise in cloud infrastructure and SRE practices.
• Demonstrated delivering enterprise grade software with a focus on quality and supportability
• Strong understanding of security principles and practices, including data encryption, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.
• Experience in implementing scalability solutions, such as load balancing, auto-scaling, and caching strategies.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and testing methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• A passion for staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in backend development, infrastructure, and security.

Background and Experience

• SaaS Platform Expertise: Proven experience in designing, developing, and scaling SaaS platforms. 
• Technical Leadership: Demonstrated experience as a technical leader in previous roles, showcasing your ability to lead and mentor a team, set technical direction, and drive successful project outcomes.
• Adaptability: The capability to quickly adapt to new technologies and methodologies as the tech landscape evolves.
• Teamwork and Communication: Strong interpersonal and communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with cross-functional teams, clear articulation of technical concepts, and mentorship of junior team members.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: An entrepreneurial mindset that thrives in a dynamic, rapidly evolving environment (preferably at a startup) and is enthusiastic about driving innovation and growth.