Lead Software Engineer, Platform
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 3, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 28, 2026.
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.