Hiring workspace
Lumen Engineering
Distributed tracing for teams that take production seriously.
- Software
- London (hybrid)
- Founded 2021
Observability tools for engineering teams who care about latency in production, not screenshots in a deck.
Open roles 3
Everyone who applies joins Lumen Engineering's workspace, so they can be matched to later roles too.
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Frontend Engineering
Senior Full Stack Engineer
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Platform Engineering
Platform Engineer
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Backend Engineering
Backend Engineer, Tracing Pipeline
About Lumen Engineering
Lumen builds the observability stack that high-growth SaaS companies actually want to use. We were founded in 2021 by two ex-Datadog engineers who got tired of the noise. We sell to engineering leaders. We hire engineers who care about craft. We ship on weekdays.
What we hire for
Departments
Skills we care about
How we work
Engineering judgement beats engineering process every time.
Async by default. We protect deep work the way some companies protect revenue.
We hire for ownership, not for tickets-per-sprint.
Production is the only environment that matters.
Perks
- Remote-first, with a London hub for those who want it
- £3,000 annual learning budget — books, courses, conferences, your call
- 4-day Fridays in August
- Full equipment refresh every 2 years (Mac + monitor of your choice)
- EMI share options on day one
- 33 days paid leave + bank holidays
- Private healthcare via Vitality
- Hardware home-office stipend of £1,500