Lead Software Engineer, Platform

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join the platform team at an AI/ML company building document processing technology. You will strengthen the systems that run customer workloads, working closely with ML engineers to improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own and improve the platform that runs document processing jobs, with a focus on speed, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with ML teams to serve in-house models efficiently and integrate them into production pipelines.
• Build and maintain databases, task orchestration, workload scheduling, and cloud infrastructure.
• Improve distributed systems as workload volume grows, addressing latency, reliability, and scaling challenges.
• Participate in on-call rotations and take end-to-end responsibility for platform health.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• At least 5 years of platform or backend engineering experience, including work with distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python, or deep expertise in Go or Rust with willingness to work in Python.
• Experience building and scaling core infrastructure, task orchestration, and reliable production platforms.
• Application-level engineering experience in addition to infrastructure work, along with cloud infrastructure and on-call experience.
• Background in a startup or other fast-growing environment, with experience operating mature systems at scale.
• Experience optimizing model serving and working closely with machine learning teams is valuable.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Base salary: $220,000 to $320,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

LOCATION

On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.