Lead Software Engineer, Platform
- San Francisco, CA, United States
$220,000 to $320,000 USD / year
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Job details
- Pay
- $220,000 to $320,000 USD / year
- Experience
- At least 5 years of platform or backend engineering experience, including work on distributed systems.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join a platform engineering team at an AI/ML company building document processing systems. You will strengthen the infrastructure behind customer workloads, helping ensure jobs run reliably and efficiently as the platform scales.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own and improve the platform that runs document processing jobs, focusing on speed, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Partner with machine learning engineers to serve in-house models efficiently and integrate them into production pipelines.
- Build and maintain databases, task orchestration, workload scheduling, and cloud deployments.
- Address latency, reliability, and scaling challenges across distributed systems.
- 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 on distributed systems.
- Proficiency with Python, or deep expertise in Go or Rust and willingness to work with Python.
- Experience building and scaling core infrastructure, task orchestration, and reliable platforms.
- Application-level engineering experience in addition to infrastructure work, and experience with on-call responsibilities.
- Experience serving models and optimizing cloud infrastructure is valuable.
- Background in a startup or evidence of increasing technical scope and responsibility.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $220,000 to $320,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.