Lead Software Engineer, Platform

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.