Lead Software Engineer, Platform

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join a platform team at an AI/ML startup, helping build and strengthen the systems behind document processing. You will partner with ML engineers to make customer workloads fast, reliable, and cost efficient.

WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own and improve the platform that runs document processing workloads, with a focus on speed, reliability, and cost efficiency. - Work with ML teams to serve in-house models efficiently and integrate them into production pipelines. - Build and maintain infrastructure for databases, task orchestration, workload scheduling, and cloud deployments. - Improve distributed systems as workload volume grows, addressing latency, reliability, and scaling challenges. - Join an on-call rotation and take end-to-end ownership of platform health.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 5 years of platform or backend engineering experience, including work on distributed systems. - Python proficiency, or deep Go or Rust expertise and willingness to work in Python. - Experience building and scaling core infrastructure, task orchestration, and reliable platforms. - Application-level engineering experience in addition to infrastructure work, as well as on-call experience. - Background in a startup or other fast-moving environment, with experience supporting systems at scale. - Experience with cloud infrastructure and model-serving optimization 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.