Lead Software Engineer, Platform

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ABOUT THE ROLE Join a platform engineering team at an AI and machine learning startup, strengthening the infrastructure behind document processing workflows. You will help make customer jobs faster, more reliable, and cost-efficient while collaborating closely with machine learning engineers. 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 machine learning 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 by addressing latency, reliability, and scaling challenges as usage grows. - Participate in on-call rotations 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 with distributed systems. - 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. - Cloud infrastructure, model serving optimization, and on-call experience. - Startup experience or a demonstrated record of taking on increasing technical responsibility. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $220,000 to $320,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.