Lead Software Engineer, Platform

3 days ago

San Francisco, CA, United States True Full-time

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join a platform engineering team at an AI/ML company, building and strengthening the systems that power document processing. You will help ensure customer workloads run quickly and reliably while improving model serving and infrastructure efficiency.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • - Own and improve the core platform for document processing workloads, focusing on speed, reliability, and cost efficiency.
  • - Partner with machine learning teams to serve in-house models efficiently and integrate them into production pipelines.
  • - Build and maintain databases, task orchestration, workload scheduling, and cloud deployments.
  • - Improve distributed systems by addressing latency, reliability, and scaling challenges as workload volume grows.
  • - Join the on-call rotation 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.
  • - Strong Python skills, or deep Go or Rust expertise and willingness to work in Python.
  • - Experience building and scaling infrastructure, task orchestration, and reliable production platforms.
  • - Application-level engineering experience in addition to infrastructure work.
  • - Experience with on-call support, cloud infrastructure, and ideally model-serving optimization.
  • - Background working in a startup or other fast-moving engineering environment, with experience owning systems in production.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

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

LOCATION

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