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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.

  • Frontend Engineering

    Senior Full Stack Engineer

    • London (hybrid)
    • Hybrid
    • £75k - £95k
    • Full time
  • Platform Engineering

    Platform Engineer

    • London (hybrid)
    • Hybrid
    • £80k - £105k
    • Full time

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

  • Backend Engineering
  • Frontend Engineering
  • Platform Engineering

Skills we care about

  • AWS
  • Distributed Systems
  • Go
  • Kubernetes
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Python
  • React
  • System Design
  • TypeScript

How we work

  1. Engineering judgement beats engineering process every time.

  2. Async by default. We protect deep work the way some companies protect revenue.

  3. We hire for ownership, not for tickets-per-sprint.

  4. 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

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