Lead Backend & Systems Jobs

612 lead backend & systems roles at 199 companies · Avg salary $270k (265 with data)

Backend engineering, distributed systems, and API development at AI companies

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Member of Technical Staff - Voice Model Featured

xAI · Palo Alto, CA · $150k - $450k
distributed-systems pre-training pytorch reinforcement-learning speech fine-tuning
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Software Engineer, Delivery / CD Featured

OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $230k - $490k
distributed-systems infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer-AI Security New

Zscaler · Bellevue, WA · $154k - $220k
api-design agents security data-pipeline llm distributed-systems
Hybrid full-time lead 1 day ago

Director, Data Science

May Mobility · Remote (US) · $217k - $312k
distributed-systems reinforcement-learning computer-vision pytorch tensorflow healthcare autonomous-vehicles robotics
Remote full-time lead 2 days ago

Staff Software Engineer, Scientific System of Record

Lila Sciences · Boston, MA · $144k - $288k
cloud data-pipeline api-design embeddings
On-site full-time lead 1 week ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Embeddings Platform

Reddit · Remote (US) · $253k - $354k
healthcare distributed-systems deep-learning machine-learning
Remote full-time lead 1 week ago

Director, Pentest Platform

Horizon3 AI · Remote (US) · $280k - $315k
data-pipeline distributed-systems security cloud api-design platform
Hybrid full-time lead 1 week ago

Lead Software Architect

Anduril · Broomfield, CO · $219k - $290k
gpu computer-vision microservices cloud payments llm
On-site full-time lead 1 week ago

Sr. Staff AI Research TLM - AI Systems

Databricks · Mountain View, CA · $270k - $340k
llm generative-ai data-pipeline deep-learning distributed-systems pytorch agents research
On-site full-time lead 1 week ago

Staff Platform Engineer, Voice AI

Together AI · San Francisco, CA · $220k - $280k
api-design distributed-systems agents speech mlops platform
On-site full-time lead 1 week ago
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Staff Software Engineer, Search

ZocDoc · New York, NY · $211k - $285k
agents data-pipeline cloud healthcare mlops distributed-systems llm embeddings
Hybrid full-time lead 1 week ago

Security Researcher, Agentic AI Threats

OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $293k - $405k
distributed-systems agents cloud research
Remote full-time lead 1 week ago

Staff Software Engineer - AI Research Infrastructure

Databricks · New York, NY · $199k - $270k
distributed-systems llm data-pipeline agents search infrastructure research
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer - EC Lifecycle

Snorkel AI · Redwood City, CA · $240k - $270k
generative-ai code-generation cloud distributed-systems
Hybrid full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Member of Technical Staff - Full Stack Software Engineer

Prime Intellect · San Francisco, CA · $150k - $300k
reinforcement-learning agents cloud api-design fullstack
Hybrid full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Staff / Senior Staff Backend Engineer, B2B Flywheel

OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $293k - $385k
search distributed-systems data-pipeline backend
Remote full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer, GenAI Platform

Ripple · San Francisco, CA · $208k - $250k
rag embeddings code-generation distributed-systems healthcare agents generative-ai payments
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Tech Lead Manager, Agentic Runtime

Glean · Mountain View, CA · $250k - $300k
agents api-design llm distributed-systems cloud
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Tech Lead Manager, Admin Console

Glean · Mountain View, CA · $250k - $300k
distributed-systems agents llm cloud
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Attentive · United States · $320k - $360k
tensorflow pytorch api-design microservices machine-learning
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago
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