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title: 'Software Engineer, NHI Platform at Lumos'
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# Software Engineer, NHI Platform at Lumos

- **Company:** Lumos
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-27
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lumos/52e98603-8302-4bf1-9bdb-6ab829c8e701

## 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).

Lumos is making it a joy for companies to manage their apps and identities ✨. By integrating usage, spend, compliance, and access data, we provide a level of clarity and insight previously unimaginable. 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 NHI Platform team you will drive the evolution of our non-human identity data backbone, the systems every Lumos product depends on. You will be instrumental in building robust, scalable, and reliable platform software. You will play a key role in designing and operating the software that turns raw identity inputs into a trusted foundation for the product. We’re a startup that values ownership, curiosity, and trust—and we’re looking for engineers who love building platform infrastructure that enables teams to move faster while improving resilience and visibility.

✨ Your Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and operate systems that transform high volumes of identity data from third-party integrations to product consumers with correctness, freshness, and operational rigor.
- Contribute to the technical vision for a world-class data infrastructure that empowers engineering, product, and AI teams, enabling seamless access to high-quality data.
- Establish SLOs, observability, and operational tooling that catch and remediate failures in identity data systems before they reach customers.
- Promote and implement software engineering best practices for building scalable, reliable, and secure data-centric applications. Elevate the principles of software engineering within the data domain.

🙌 What We're Looking For

- 1+ years of professional backend or platform engineering experience building production systems other teams depend on, such as ingestion, sync, or event-driven pipelines.
- Strong backend fundamentals. You’ve built APIs (REST or gRPC) and services backed by relational databases like Postgres or MySQL, and you’ve evolved schemas on live tables. Our stack is Python, Postgres and Kafka on AWS.
- You care about correctness. You think about idempotency, ordering, retries vs. permanent failures, and dead-letter handling, because downstream products take action on the data you produce.
- You operate what you ship. You’ve deployed containerized services to AWS, GCP or Azure, debugged from metrics, traces and logs, and been part of an on-call rotation.
- You’re excited to build from the ground up. This is a greenfield team, and the systems you build become the foundation every other Lumos product runs on.
- Nice to have: Kafka, Temporal or change data capture (Debezium), Terraform, and familiarity with identity data like accounts, entitlements, service accounts and API keys.

⭐️ What We Value We also care about whether you would be a good fit for Lumos based on the [values](https://blog.lumos.com/p/the-anatomy-of-an-alchemist?open=false#%C2%A7lumos-values-the-anatomy-of-an-alchemist) and characteristics that define how we achieve outcomes, not just your resume. Lumos is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you require any reasonable accommodations, please let us know at any time. Thank you for considering Lumos, we hope to hear from you! 🎉

💰Pay Range

- $155,000 - $200,000 plus equity + benefits (Note that this range is a good faith estimate of likely pay for this role; upon hire, the pay may differ due to skill and/or level of experience.)

💸 Benefits and Perks:

- 💻 Remote-first culture – Work from anywhere within ±4 hours of Pacific Time.
- 🏥 Medical, dental & vision insurance – 100% of premiums covered for employees, 60% for dependents. HSA and FSA available with employer contribution. International benefits align with local standards.
- 🧠 Mental health support – Access to mental health resources and support.
- 💪 Monthly wellness stipend – A monthly stipend for gym memberships, fitness apps, and whatever helps you recharge.
- 🛡️ Life & disability insurance – Life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage available.
- 🌴 Flexible PTO – Flexible time off with a minimum annual requirement, because rest is part of doing your best work.
- 👶 Parental leave – Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for expecting parents.
- 📚 $1,000 annual learning stipend – An annual budget for courses, books, conferences, and certifications.
- ✈️ Company & team offsites – Company and team bonding trips throughout the year, fully covered by Lumos.
- 💰 401(k) with matching – Employer 401(k) matching to help you save for the future.

## About Lumos

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lumos is an autonomous identity security platform that governs access for humans, machines, and AI agents in the enterprise.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with hub offices in New York and remote operations)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Andrej Safundzic, Alan Flores-López, and Leo Mehr

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Cybersecurity, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Enterprise Software
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (from fast-scaling brands to global enterprises with 100,000+ employees)
- **Mission statement**: “Prevent breaches and let humans embrace AI and thrive.” The company is building autonomous systems that defend at the same speed attackers strike.

## Products & Services
- **Identity Security Agents**: A suite of autonomous agents that run entire workstreams, including:
  - **Access Request Agent**: Grants access for exactly as long as needed, then revokes it automatically.
  - **Access Review Agent**: Runs access reviews end-to-end, certifying safe access and surfacing only items needing human judgment.
  - **Role Mining Agent**: Learns real access patterns and drafts least-privilege roles.
  - **NHI Owner Hunter Agent**: Catalogs every non-human identity (service account, key, token) and assigns a human owner.
  - **Agent Ownership Finder**: Discovers and monitors every machine identity.
  - **Entitlement Analyst**: Translates permissions into plain English.
- **Agent Marketplace**: 30+ pre-built agents with the ability to create custom agents.
- **Lifecycle Management**: Automated joiner, mover, leaver workflows integrated with HRIS.
- **Identity Analytics**: Monitors access patterns and flags risk.
- **AppStore**: Self-service catalog for employees to request access.
- **Integrations**: Connects with existing IT and security stacks.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Total Funding**: Over $85M raised (as of mid-2025)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding >$85M
- **Notable Investors**: Andreessen Horowitz (Lead investor), Scale Venture Partners, Cynergy Partners; Board Members include Peter Levine (a16z) and Ariel Tseitlin (Scale Venture Partners)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Named to numerous “Top Startup” and “Most Likely to Become the Next Unicorn” lists (Will Reed Top 100 2025/2026, LinkedIn Top Startups 2024/2025)
  - Won “America’s Best Startup Employer” (2023) and “Exceptional Startup” awards
  - Growing engineering, product, and go-to-market teams
  - Building the “identity platform for the agentic era,” riding the wave of AI adoption

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in autonomous identity**: Lumos is purpose-built for the “agentic era” where AI agents, non-human identities, and humans all need governance — a unique positioning vs. legacy IAM tools.
- **Agent-first architecture**: 30+ autonomous agents that run entire workstreams, reducing manual effort by up to 80% (e.g., in access reviews).
- **Founding team pedigree**: Founders met at Stanford CS and are backed by Peter Levine (a16z), who identified identity as a critical enterprise layer.
- **Focus on AI-native threats**: The company explicitly addresses how AI accelerates attacks, positioning their autonomous defense as the necessary countermeasure.

## Strategic Focus
- **Autonomous identity governance**: Moving from manual, ticket-driven access management to fully autonomous, agent-driven security.
- **Covering the full surface**: Human identities, non-human identities (NHIs), and AI agents — all governed on one platform.
- **Scaling the agent marketplace**: Growing the library of pre-built agents and enabling customers to create custom agents.
- **Go-to-market expansion**: Hiring across engineering, product, and sales to capture the enterprise market.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: 100% remote work culture with a requirement to work +/- 4 hours from PST. The company emphasizes strong connection through annual offsites, in-person gatherings, and coworking trips.
- **Hub offices**: Available in San Francisco and New York for those who prefer hybrid.
- **Benefits**: Medical, Vision, & Dental coverage; up to 4 months of parental leave; $100 monthly wellness stipend; 401k matching; $1,000 annual Learning & Development stipend.
- **Engineering culture**: Described as a “blank canvas” — employees define their own mission and have freedom to innovate. The company seeks “operators, researchers, and builders” who want to build autonomous security systems.
- **Recognition**: Awarded “America’s Best Startup Employer” (2023) and consistently named to top startup lists.
- **Open roles**: 14 positions listed (as of mid-2025), including AI Agent Engineer, Software Engineer (Data Platform), and Head of Product Marketing.

## Sources
1. [lumos.com](https://www.lumos.com/)
2. [lumos.com/company/about](https://www.lumos.com/company/about)
3. [lumos.com/careers](https://www.lumos.com/careers)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/lumos](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lumos)

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