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Lead Software Engineer, Platform

  • Office
  • 6+ years

Salary

$220,000 - 320,000/ year

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About the Role

Join a small platform team at an AI company building document processing systems. You will strengthen the core platform that runs customer workloads, with a focus on performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Own and improve the platform that runs document processing jobs, ensuring speed, reliability, and cost efficiency as usage grows.
  • Partner with machine learning engineers to serve in-house models efficiently and integrate them into production workflows.
  • Build and maintain infrastructure for databases, task orchestration, workload scheduling, and cloud deployments.
  • Improve distributed systems by addressing latency, reliability, and scaling challenges.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and take end-to-end ownership of platform health.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of platform or backend engineering experience, including distributed systems work.
  • Experience building and scaling core infrastructure, task orchestration, and reliable platforms.
  • Application-level engineering experience in addition to infrastructure work.
  • Proficiency in Python, or deep Go or Rust experience and willingness to work in Python.
  • Experience with on-call operations, cloud infrastructure, and optimizing model serving.
  • Background in a startup or demonstrated senior-level growth and ownership in a larger organization.

Conditions

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

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

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The office

Visa sponsored

About the company

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  • Industry: AI

Office in San Francisco, United States

Your chances

Still hiring, not crowded yet, and you'd be among the first.

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  • 7 good signs
  • 3 red flags

Still hiring?

11 checks

Actively hiring

In its favour4

  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 1 h agoModerate evidence
  • Found in the last 48 hours, before the big job boardsModerate evidence
  • Specific about the basics: pay, place, level, stack and contract all statedSlight evidence
1 moreFewer
  • States its salarySlight evidence

Against it1

  • Listed for the 4th time after earlier listings of it closedModerate evidence

How crowded?

7 checks

Low

In its favour3

  • In its Early Window: not on the big job boards yetStrong evidence
  • In the office in San Francisco: only people nearby can take itSlight evidence
  • Lead level: far fewer people qualifySlight evidence

Against it2

  • Sponsors visas: applicants from abroad compete for it tooSlight evidence
  • Pays more than 87% of similar roles: that draws applicantsSlight evidence

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Details13 facts · Role, Location, Compensation, Employment, Company
Tech stack
  • Python
  • Go
  • Rust
Seniority
Lead
Type
Full-time
Industry
AI
Specialty
Backend
Region
United States
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Role

Category
Development
Specialty
Backend
Seniority
Lead
Experience
5+ years
Tech stack
  • Python
  • Go
  • Rust

Location

Work model
Office
Region
United States
Office
  • San Francisco, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsored

Compensation

Salary
$220,000 - 320,000 / year
Pay period
Annual

Employment

Type
Full-time

Company

Industry
AI

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