Senior Backend Engineer – ML Infra (Remote)

Lever, Inc.; Town of Italy (NY); On-site; EUR 71,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work environment

Unlimited vacation

Home-office stipend

Apple laptop provided

Annual training budget

Stock options

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer: Machine Learning Infrastructure based in Italy. You will design and operate high-load backend services, data pipelines, and platform features to support ML workloads and LLMs in a remote-first environment.

You will collaborate with ML and product teams, own critical services, and drive architectural decisions to enable scalable, self-service infrastructure across the organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend/plateform engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python; strong knowledge of distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure) or self-managed Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with ML platforms, vector databases, or model serving is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and operate high-load distributed backend services for ML infrastructure.
• Own ML data pipelines from design through deployment, observability, and maintenance.
• Collaborate with ML and product teams to deliver reusable platform capabilities.
• Maintain reliability, performance, and maintainability of services.

Tools

Python

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

C++

Rust

Go

Job description

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer: Machine Learning Infrastructure based in Italy. You will design and operate high-load backend services, data pipelines, and platform features to support ML workloads and LLMs in a remote-first environment.

You will collaborate with ML and product teams, own critical services, and drive architectural decisions to enable scalable, self-service infrastructure across the organization.