Lead Software Engineer, Platform

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.