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Careers at Lucid Compliances

We are a product-led enterprise company building compliance software and services for every industry. Each role has its own application form (résumé or LinkedIn, plus cover letter)—not the commercial contact form. Every posting lists a Job ID we attach automatically when you apply.

Roles listed are anchored in Chicago, IL with a hybrid schedule unless noted. Lucid is an equal opportunity employer.

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CloudOps Engineer Python Developer Database Engineer Senior Architect
Job ID: LCC-ENG-2026-001

CloudOps Engineer

Experience: 5–9 years · Chicago, IL · Hybrid

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Own our cloud foundations and delivery pipelines for regulated customer workloads—reliability, observability, and cost-aware operations at the center.

Job description

Key responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and operate CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and release automation for Django and supporting services.
  • Manage cloud environments (e.g., AWS): networking, IAM, secrets, backups, patching, and capacity planning.
  • Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident runbooks; participate in on-call rotation as needed.
  • Partner with security and engineering on hardening, DR drills, and audit-friendly change documentation.
  • Optimize performance and spend; recommend and execute pragmatic improvements without compromising compliance posture.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or CloudOps roles with production ownership of Linux-based stacks.
  • Strong experience with at least one major cloud provider and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
  • Hands-on scripting (Python or Bash) and experience with containers and orchestration concepts.
  • Solid understanding of networking, TLS, secrets management, and least-privilege access patterns.
  • Excellent communication skills; comfortable working with distributed teams and customer-facing constraints.

Nice to have

  • Experience in regulated industries (healthcare, finance, or food safety adjacent environments).
  • Familiarity with Django, PostgreSQL, and managed data services.
  • Prior work with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or customer security questionnaires.
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Job ID: LCC-ENG-2026-002

Python Developer

Experience: 3–7 years · Chicago, IL · Hybrid

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Build and evolve server-side features for our compliance and analytics products—clean APIs, data integrity, and maintainable Django codebases.

Job description

Key responsibilities

  • Develop, test, and ship features in Python/Django: models, views, serializers, background jobs, and integrations.
  • Collaborate on API contracts with front-end and integration partners; write clear technical notes and ADRs when appropriate.
  • Improve query performance, caching, and batch processing; participate in code reviews and quality standards.
  • Contribute to automated tests (unit/integration) and support releases alongside CloudOps.
  • Debug production issues with a customer-impact mindset; document fixes and preventive measures.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional Python development, including substantial Django (or comparable web framework) experience.
  • Strong SQL skills and comfort with relational modeling, migrations, and data integrity constraints.
  • Experience with REST APIs, authentication patterns, and secure handling of sensitive data.
  • Proficiency with Git, code review culture, and working in Agile or iterative delivery teams.
  • Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

  • Experience with PostgreSQL tuning, Celery/RQ, or event-driven workflows.
  • Exposure to reporting/BI pipelines or document-heavy domains.
  • Open-source contributions or internal platform tooling experience.
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Job ID: LCC-ENG-2026-003

Database Engineer

Experience: 4–7 years · Chicago, IL · Hybrid

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Shape how we store, move, and protect data across products—performance, reliability, and recoverability for enterprise customers.

Job description

Key responsibilities

  • Design and maintain PostgreSQL schemas, indexing strategies, partitioning, and migration plans in partnership with product engineering.
  • Own backup, restore, replication, and failover practices; validate RPO/RTO targets with operations.
  • Analyze slow queries and workload patterns; recommend schema and application-level improvements.
  • Support analytics and reporting use cases with governed views, ETL patterns, or data warehouse handoffs as needed.
  • Document standards for naming, retention, PII handling, and access—aligned to security and compliance expectations.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years hands-on with PostgreSQL (or comparable enterprise RDBMS) in production environments.
  • Deep SQL expertise including performance tuning, locking, and transaction isolation tradeoffs.
  • Experience with migration tooling, zero-downtime deploy patterns, and schema evolution at scale.
  • Understanding of encryption, auditing, role-based access, and least-privilege database users.
  • Strong collaboration skills with backend engineers and CloudOps/SRE peers.

Nice to have

  • Experience with columnar/warehouse systems (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) or dbt-style pipelines.
  • Familiarity with Django ORM internals and multi-tenant data patterns.
  • Scripting in Python for automation and data validation tasks.
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Job ID: LCC-ENG-2026-004

Senior Architect

Experience: 5–8 years · Chicago, IL · Hybrid · Limited travel

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Lead technical direction across products and customer programs—reference architectures, integration strategy, and pragmatic roadmaps that engineering can execute.

Job description

Key responsibilities

  • Define and communicate target architectures for web applications, APIs, data platforms, and cloud deployments.
  • Lead discovery with customers and internal teams; translate constraints into phased technical plans and risk registers.
  • Guide technology choices (build vs. buy), non-functional requirements, and security-by-design patterns.
  • Mentor senior engineers; raise the bar on diagrams, RFCs, and operational readiness checklists.
  • Partner with techno consulting and product leadership on estimates, staffing models, and technical sales support.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in software architecture, principal engineering, or technical leadership roles on enterprise systems.
  • Breadth across backend services, data stores, cloud infrastructure, and integration patterns (REST, events, batch).
  • Proven experience presenting to engineering and executive audiences; strong written communication.
  • Track record delivering in regulated or high-trust environments with clear accountability for outcomes.
  • Comfort operating as a player-coach—reviewing code and designs while staying strategic.

Nice to have

  • Experience with compliance-heavy domains (health, food safety, financial services).
  • Hands-on familiarity with Django/Python ecosystems and modern observability stacks.
  • TOGAF, AWS/Azure certifications, or equivalent—not required but valued if paired with practical delivery.
Your application is tied to LCC-ENG-2026-004 automatically. Open application form

Don’t see a perfect fit? We still want to hear from strong engineers and architects.

Opens the same résumé / LinkedIn application—Job ID LCC-GENERAL—not the sales contact form.