Lead Software Engineer, Platform

About the Role

Join a small platform team at an AI company building document processing systems. You will strengthen the core platform that runs customer workloads, with a focus on performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

What You'll Do

• Own and improve the platform that runs document processing jobs, ensuring speed, reliability, and cost efficiency as usage grows.
• Partner with machine learning engineers to serve in-house models efficiently and integrate them into production workflows.
• Build and maintain infrastructure for databases, task orchestration, workload scheduling, and cloud deployments.
• Improve distributed systems by addressing latency, reliability, and scaling challenges.
• Participate in 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 distributed systems work.
• Experience building and scaling core infrastructure, task orchestration, and reliable platforms.
• Application-level engineering experience in addition to infrastructure work.
• Proficiency in Python, or deep Go or Rust experience and willingness to work in Python.
• Experience with on-call operations, cloud infrastructure, and optimizing model serving.
• Background in a startup or demonstrated senior-level growth and ownership in a larger organization.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary

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

Location

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