Lead Software Engineer, Platform
San Francisco
- Salary
- $220,000 - $320,000 annually
- Level
- Lead
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
- Visa
- Sponsors visas
Open. First seen 1 November 2026.
About the role
About the Role
Join a platform engineering team at an AI/ML company building document processing systems. You will strengthen the infrastructure behind customer workloads, helping ensure jobs run reliably and efficiently as the platform scales.
What You'll Do
- Own and improve the platform that runs document processing jobs, focusing on speed, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Partner with machine learning engineers to serve in-house models efficiently and integrate them into production pipelines.
- Build and maintain databases, task orchestration, workload scheduling, and cloud deployments.
- Address latency, reliability, and scaling challenges across distributed systems.
- 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 on distributed systems.
- Proficiency with Python, or deep expertise in Go or Rust and willingness to work with Python.
- Experience building and scaling core infrastructure, task orchestration, and reliable platforms.
- Application-level engineering experience in addition to infrastructure work, and experience with on-call responsibilities.
- Experience serving models and optimizing cloud infrastructure is valuable.
- Background in a startup or evidence of increasing technical scope and responsibility.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $220,000 to $320,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Golang · Rust
Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 128 open postings.
Standard for software engineering roles
Python
Common in software engineering postings at any company.
Compared with True Talent Solutions Partners's other open jobs.
The team: Client Roles
This role is one of 129 open in Client Roles. 129 were posted in the last 30 days, including 6 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (71 of 129), LLM (45 of 129), TypeScript (42 of 129), React (37 of 129), AWS (29 of 129), Machine Learning (28 of 129), JavaScript (26 of 129)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Engineering Lead posted Nov 1
- Robotics Software Engineer posted Nov 1
- Product Manager, AI Platform posted Nov 1
- Engineering Manager posted Nov 1
- Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems posted Nov 1
- Member of Technical Staff posted Nov 1
- Technical Recruiter posted Nov 1
- Product Manager, AI Education posted Nov 1
- Agent Deployment Engineer posted Nov 1
- Full Stack Engineer posted Nov 1
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 1
- Brand & Identity / Presentation Designer posted Nov 1
- Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer posted Nov 1
- Founding Engineer posted Nov 1
- Full-Stack Product Engineer posted Nov 1
- Senior ML / AI Engineer posted Nov 1
- Full-Stack Engineer, Agent Evaluation & Reliability posted Nov 1
- Senior LATAM Brazil QA Engineer posted Nov 1
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer posted Nov 1
- Director of Engineering posted Nov 1
- GTM Engineer posted Nov 1
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 1
- Senior / Staff Product Engineer posted Nov 1
- Member of Technical Staff posted Nov 1
- Senior Analog/Mixed Signal Engineer posted Nov 1
- Forward Deployed Product Manager posted Nov 1
- Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure posted Nov 1
- Member of Technical Staff, ML Systems posted Nov 1
- Senior Full Stack Engineer posted Nov 1
- AI-Native Electrical Engineer posted Nov 1
- Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core) posted Nov 1
- Founding Engineer posted Nov 1
- Member of Technical Staff posted Nov 1
- Product Engineer, Scrape posted Nov 1
- Lead Platform Engineer posted Nov 1
- Member of Technical Staff, Applied Researcher posted Nov 1
- Senior Security Engineer posted Nov 1
- Solutions Engineer posted Nov 1
- Principal Software Engineer, Perception posted Nov 1
- Backend Infrastructure Engineer, Anti-Bot posted Nov 1
- Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI and Agents posted Nov 1
- Software Engineer, C++ Systems posted Nov 1
- Senior Software Engineer posted Nov 1
- Member of Technical Staff, Senior posted Nov 1
- Technical Product Manager posted Oct 31
- Research Engineer, Evals posted Oct 31
- Senior Control Electronics Engineer posted Oct 31
- Principal Analog/Mixed-Signal Engineer posted Oct 31
- Software Engineer posted Oct 31
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 31
- Fullstack Software Engineer posted Oct 31
- Frontend Engineer posted Oct 31
- Member of Technical Staff, Compiler posted Oct 31
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 31
- Founding AI Engineer posted Oct 31
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 31
- Senior Platform Engineer posted Oct 31
- Product Engineer, Mid-Senior posted Oct 31
- AI Scheduler posted Oct 31
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 31
- Product Manager, Supply Chain posted Oct 31
- Founding Full-Stack Engineer posted Oct 31
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 31
- Product Manager, Product Growth posted Oct 31
- Software Engineer, iOS posted Oct 31
- Electrical & Computer Engineer posted Oct 31
- Senior Full Stack Software Engineer posted Oct 31
- Founding Backend Software Engineer posted Oct 31
- Founding AI Agent Engineer posted Oct 31
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Operate posted Oct 31
- Mid/Senior Full Stack AI Engineer posted Oct 31
- Director of Engineering posted Oct 31
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 31
- Senior Member of Technical Staff, Platform posted Oct 31
- Founding Product Designer posted Oct 31
- Robotics Infrastructure Engineer posted Oct 31
- Staff Product Manager, AI posted Oct 31
- Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineering posted Oct 31
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 31
- Head of RF Engineering posted Oct 31
- Forward Deployed Product Manager posted Oct 31
- Founding Senior Engineer posted Oct 31
- Lead Product Engineer posted Oct 31
- Product Lead posted Oct 31
- Software Engineer, Security posted Oct 31
- Senior Software Engineer, Customer Studio Backend posted Oct 31
- Technical Product Manager posted Oct 31
- Founding Software Engineer posted Oct 31
- Founding Product Designer posted Oct 31
- Electrical Engineer posted Oct 31
- Product Engineer posted Oct 31
- Staff Product Manager posted Oct 31
- Founding ML Researcher posted Oct 30
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 30
- Data Engineer, Data Product posted Oct 30
- Senior Product Manager, Staffing and AI Agents posted Oct 30
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 30
- Software Engineer posted Oct 30
- Senior Solutions Engineer, Digital Native and Mid-Market posted Oct 30
- Senior Software Engineer, Design posted Oct 30
- Member of Technical Staff, Full Stack posted Oct 30
- Mechanical Design Engineer posted Oct 30
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer posted Oct 30
- Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure posted Oct 30
- Founding Member of Technical Staff, Markets posted Oct 30
- Software Engineer, Full Stack posted Oct 29
- Senior Software Engineer, Core Systems posted Oct 29
- Founding Full-Stack Engineer posted Oct 29
- Software Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Research Engineer, Robot Learning posted Oct 29
- Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer posted Oct 29
- Senior Platform Security Engineer posted Oct 29
- Software Engineer, Mid-Level to Staff+ posted Oct 29
- Senior Security Engineer posted Oct 29
- Head of Software Architecture, Embodied AI Platform posted Oct 29
- AI Solutions Consultant posted Oct 29
- Agent Deployment Engineer posted Oct 29
- Lead AI Engineer posted Oct 29
- Member of Technical Staff, Applied ML posted Oct 29
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 29
- Agent Product Engineer posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Product Engineer, AI posted Oct 29
- Senior Software Engineer, Backend posted Oct 29
- Sales Engineer posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Engineer, Applied AI posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
From the team and dates on True Talent Solutions Partners's own job board.
Posting history
Reposted 2 times since 28 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.
- 1 November 2026 – open (this posting)
- 31 October 2026 – closed 1 November 2026
- 29 October 2026 – closed 31 October 2026
- 28 October 2026 – closed 29 October 2026
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