About Lanai

Lanai Software is at the forefront of the GenAI revolution, empowering humans to achieve the extraordinary in the age of AI. Lanai's AI platform empowers large organizations and employees to discover, protect, and accelerate AI adoption, fostering innovation and unlocking unprecedented productivity. Backed by top investors, we're creating a world where everyone can confidently leverage GenAI at work.

At Lanai, we're not just building software; we're crafting a culture of excellence and innovation. Our values shape our work:

• Curiosity: We continuously learn, question, and share knowledge.

• Community: We embrace diversity and unite in purpose.

• Commitment: We maintain high standards and follow through on our promises.

• Clarity: We communicate openly and make decisions efficiently.

We move fast, prioritize delivering true customer value, and strive to earn and maintain trust with the people we serve and each other. As part of Lanai’s founding team, you'll embody these values and help shape the future of work in the AI era.

The Impact You’ll have

As a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer at Lanai, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering a modern, distributed, cloud-native service fabric. This fabric will ensure Lanai can scale infinitely to meet rapidly growing customer demand across multiple cloud providers. Our platform will manage and secure millions of AI-powered interactions and workflows for large companies globally. We provide comprehensive visibility, robust safety measures, and productivity-enhancing features to help enterprises harness the power of generative AI efficiently and safely.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the approach to scalability, reliability, service health, supportability, observability, and manageability of the product

• As a domain expert, understand the state of the art, analyze competitive product designs, and stay familiar with research in distributed services

• Develop and champion new ideas and innovations

• Make company-wide contributions with long-term impact

• Serve as a key decision-maker on technical and business issues that significantly influence roles and responsibilities across the organization

• Regularly venture into uncharted territory. Stay aware of business trends and emerging technologies—even outside our current focus—and determine how to leverage them for Lanai's advantage

What You Bring

• 6+ years of experience building large scale distributed, fault-tolerant services using Kafka, Redis, Etcd or similar.

• Strong experience with database fundamentals including working with relational data, semi-structured data, and unstructured data

• Strong systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, caching, batching, etc.

• Fluency in Java and C++ or GoLang required

• Deep understanding Kubernetes and containerization principles

• Strong experience with service-oriented, micro-service architecture architectures

• Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions

• Experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

• Masters or PhD in Computer Science or a related field

What We Offer

• Founding equity options

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• 401(k)

• 15+ paid company holidays and 30 days PTO per year

• Your choice of tech!

• Commuter benefits

• Team building events

Working Environment

Lanai is based in Palo Alto and we co-create in our office, together, most of the time. We have a regular in-office cadence for team connection and brainstorming sessions, with the flexibility for remote work the rest of the time. We use the best collaboration tools, schedule regular off-sites, and plan for team bonding experiences.

Representative and Inclusive Employer

We're committed to providing equal treatment and opportunity to all applicants throughout the hiring process and their tenure at Lanai. We don't discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected status.

Note: Research shows that men often apply for jobs when they meet only about 60% of the qualifications, while women and other marginalized groups tend to hesitate unless they meet all criteria. If you don't match 100% of the job qualifications but believe you'd be a great fit, we strongly encourage you to apply!