About Luma AI

Luma's mission is to build multimodal AI to expand human imagination and capabilities. We believe that multimodality is critical for intelligence. To go beyond language models and build more aware, capable, and useful systems, the next step function change will come from vision. So, we are working on training and scaling up multimodal foundation models for systems that can see and understand, show and explain, and eventually interact with our world to effect change.

Where You Come In

As Luma's generative AI is adopted by the world's leading creative companies, we are building a new, foundational team to create the secure, scalable, and reliable systems these partners require. This is a zero-to-one opportunity for a versatile and product-minded backend engineer to build our enterprise platform from the ground up.

You will be a founding engineer on this new team, taking high-level requirements and turning them into robust, production-grade features. This is a high-agency role for an engineer who thrives on the challenge of serving sophisticated customers and has a proven history of shipping enterprise-grade systems in a fast-paced environment.

What You'll Do

• Architect and Own Luma's core enterprise authentication layer, including features like SSO and role-based access control.

• Build and Launch backend systems for enterprise team management, including invites, shared credit pools, and billing integrations.

• Design and Ship high-traffic, secure APIs that power our enterprise offerings and partner integrations.

• Develop analytics dashboards and reporting features to provide enterprise customers with critical insights into their teams' usage and performance.

• Collaborate closely with our security, product, and design teams to harden our infrastructure and ensure our systems meet the highest standards for privacy and data protection.

Who You Are

• You have experience as a Senior or Staff-level software engineer, with a proven record of shipping impactful, user-focused products at scale.

• You possess deep, hands-on proficiency in Python, as our entire backend stack is Python-based.

• You have experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems and high-traffic REST APIs.

• You have a "security mindset" and have experience working with security departments to build secure, enterprise-ready products.

• You have hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker and a medium-level understanding of Kubernetes.

• You thrive in fast-paced startup environments and have high agency, with a proven ability to operate effectively in the face of ambiguity.

What Sets You Apart (Bonus Points)

• You have been an early or founding engineer at a startup focused on building backend systems for enterprise customers

• You have worked at a company with a strong API-first business model.

• Experience building enterprise applications or authentication systems from scratch.

Compensation Range: $150K - $300K