Lead Software Engineer, Platform

True; San Francisco (CA); Sur place; USD 220 000 - 320 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Unknown is seeking a platform/backend engineer to join a platform engineering team building systems for document processing workloads. You will help ensure customer workloads run quickly and reliably while improving model serving and infrastructure efficiency.

You will own and improve the core platform, partner with ML teams to serve in-house models, and build databases, orchestration, and cloud deployments to scale production systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform or backend engineering with distributed systems experience.
• Strong Python as primary language; Go or Rust are a plus.
• Experience building scalable infrastructure and production-grade platforms.
• On-call support experience and cloud infrastructure familiarity.

Responsabilités

• Own and improve core platform for document processing workloads.
• Collaborate with ML teams to serve models in production.
• Build and maintain databases, orchestration, and cloud deployments.
• Improve latency, reliability, and scaling as workloads grow.
• Participate in on-call rotation and ensure platform health.

Connaissances

Distributed systems

Python

Go

Rust

Description du poste

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join a platform engineering team at an AI/ML company, building and strengthening the systems that power document processing. You will help ensure customer workloads run quickly and reliably while improving model serving and infrastructure efficiency.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• - Own and improve the core platform for document processing workloads, focusing 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 databases, task orchestration, workload scheduling, and cloud deployments.
• - Improve distributed systems by addressing latency, reliability, and scaling challenges as workload volume grows.
• - Join the on-call rotation 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.
• - Strong Python skills, or deep Go or Rust expertise and willingness to work in Python.
• - Experience building and scaling infrastructure, task orchestration, and reliable production platforms.
• - Application-level engineering experience in addition to infrastructure work.
• - Experience with on-call support, cloud infrastructure, and ideally model-serving optimization.
• - Background working in a startup or other fast-moving engineering environment, with experience owning systems in production.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

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

LOCATION

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