Senior Backend & AI Infrastructure Lead

Level AI; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Level AI, based in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to raise the bar across applications, platform and infrastructure. You will guide architecture, design scalable distributed systems, and mentor engineers to deliver robust, high-performance solutions.

You will collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to ship high-traffic services, stay current with tech trends, and promote engineering best practices throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher degree in engineering or related field, from top institutes.
• 6+ years of backend and infrastructure experience at a major tech company.
• Hands-on with large-scale databases and real-time queues; microservice patterns.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the technical roadmap to scale Level AI’s technology stack.
• Design and build scalable, low-latency distributed systems for real-time data.
• Drive engineering best practices across the SDLC and improve operational excellence.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver on critical business goals and lead execution.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering leadership within the team.

Skills

Distributed systems

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Real-time queues

Low latency

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

Data modeling

Query optimization

Caching

Redis

Celery

CI/CD

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Pub/Sub

Education

B.E./B.Tech./M.E./M.Tech./PhD from tier 1/2 Engineering institutes

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Redis

Celery

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Flask

FastAPI

Job description

Level AI, based in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to raise the bar across applications, platform and infrastructure. You will guide architecture, design scalable distributed systems, and mentor engineers to deliver robust, high-performance solutions.

You will collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to ship high-traffic services, stay current with tech trends, and promote engineering best practices throughout the lifecycle.