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# Backend and Data Foundations Engineer at lilasciences

Compensation

$144,000 – $240,000/yr

**Location**
: Cambridge, Minnesota

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Aug 10, 2026

## Description

Lila Sciences is hiring a backend and data foundations engineer to build scheduling systems, digital-twin data layers, governed data pipelines, capacity-planning services, and cloud-native infrastructure for autonomous scientific laboratories. The role uses Python/FastAPI, workflow orchestration, PostgreSQL, S3, AWS EKS, Docker/ECR, Terraform, and GitHub Actions, with collaboration across engineering, science, operations, and business teams. The position requires 4–8 years of backend engineering experience and offers a U.S. base salary of $144,000–$240,000 plus bonus potential, equity, and benefits.

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