Lead Software Engineer, Platform

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.