Lead Software Engineer, Platform

ABOUT THE ROLE Join the platform team at an AI/ML company building document processing technology. You will strengthen the systems that run customer workloads, working closely with ML engineers to improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own and improve the platform that runs document processing jobs, with a focus on speed, reliability, and cost efficiency. - Partner with ML teams to serve in-house models efficiently and integrate them into production pipelines. - Build and maintain databases, task orchestration, workload scheduling, and cloud infrastructure. - Improve distributed systems as workload volume grows, addressing latency, reliability, and scaling challenges. - 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 with distributed systems. - Proficiency in Python, or deep expertise in Go or Rust with willingness to work in Python. - Experience building and scaling core infrastructure, task orchestration, and reliable production platforms. - Application-level engineering experience in addition to infrastructure work, along with cloud infrastructure and on-call experience. - Background in a startup or other fast-growing environment, with experience operating mature systems at scale. - Experience optimizing model serving and working closely with machine learning teams 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.