Lead Backend & Systems Jobs

430 lead backend & systems roles at 114 companies · Avg salary $274k (205 with data)

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

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Anthropic Cohere Perplexity xAI Databricks Harvey AI Twelve Labs OpenAI Waymo Cerebras
agents 1530 autonomous-vehicles 410 cloud 927 computer-vision 412 data-pipeline 709 deep-learning 494 distributed-systems 956 fine-tuning 525 generative-ai 1296 healthcare 609 infrastructure 359 llm 1753 machine-learning 397 mlops 382 payments 760 pytorch 695 reinforcement-learning 371 research 503 robotics 599 search 536

Member of Technical Staff - Voice Model Featured

xAI · Palo Alto, CA · $150k - $450k
pytorch pre-training speech distributed-systems reinforcement-learning fine-tuning
On-site full-time lead 4 weeks ago

Software Engineer, Delivery / CD Featured

OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $230k - $490k
distributed-systems infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Full-Stack Software Engineer, Reinforcement Learning

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $405k
code-generation api-design reinforcement-learning fine-tuning data-pipeline agents cloud llm
On-site full-time lead 8 hours ago

Infrastructure and Platform Engineer, Metal

Tenstorrent · United States · $100k - $500k
cloud distributed-systems platform infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 3 days ago

Staff Attack Engineer, AI/LLM

Horizon3 AI · Remote (US) · $223k - $275k
llm agents embeddings cloud microservices security mlops
Hybrid full-time lead 4 days ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Storage

Crusoe · San Francisco, CA · $240k - $310k
mlops pytorch tensorflow distributed-systems
On-site full-time lead 5 days ago

Staff Software Engineer, Storage

Crusoe · San Francisco, CA · $240k - $310k
pytorch tensorflow distributed-systems mlops
On-site full-time lead 5 days ago

Staff+ Software Engineer, Full-stack

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405k - $485k
agents healthcare llm api-design legal fullstack
On-site full-time lead 5 days ago

Staff+ Software Engineer, Backend

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405k - $485k
payments healthcare llm legal distributed-systems cloud agents api-design
On-site full-time lead 5 days ago

Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405k - $485k
fine-tuning payments llm mlops api-design platform
On-site full-time lead 6 days ago

Staff Backend Engineer - Commerce

Together AI · San Francisco, CA · $230k - $270k
distributed-systems payments cloud backend
On-site full-time lead 6 days ago

Director, Engineering, Proactive Offense

Horizon3 AI · Remote (US) · $240k - $285k
alignment security distributed-systems cloud
Hybrid full-time lead 1 week ago

Head of Marketing

Prime Intellect · San Francisco, CA · $150k - $300k
agents distributed-systems api-design reinforcement-learning
Hybrid full-time lead 1 week ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, GenAI Platform

Reddit · Remote (US) · $253k - $354k
healthcare llm mlops distributed-systems gpu generative-ai reinforcement-learning fine-tuning
Remote full-time lead 1 week ago

Senior / Staff+ Software Engineer, Voice Platform

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $485k
distributed-systems speech api-design alignment llm infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 1 week ago

Staff Product Manager, AI Safety

Pinterest · San Francisco, CA · $164k - $339k
reinforcement-learning alignment generative-ai agents rust
Remote full-time lead 1 week ago

Staff Backend Software Engineer- (AI Platform)

Databricks · San Francisco, CA · $192k - $260k
llm data-pipeline distributed-systems generative-ai mlops backend
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Staff Backend Software Engineer- (AI Platform)

Databricks · San Francisco, CA · $166k - $225k
llm mlops distributed-systems data-pipeline backend
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Staff Backend Software Engineer- (AI Platform)

Databricks · San Francisco, CA · $192k - $260k
mlops distributed-systems data-pipeline llm backend
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Staff Backend Software Engineer- (AI Platform)

Databricks · San Francisco, CA · $166k - $225k
mlops data-pipeline agents generative-ai pytorch distributed-systems cloud backend
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago

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Lead Backend & Systems Jobs — FAQ

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There are currently 430 lead backend & systems jobs on AI Dev Jobs from 114 companies. The average salary is $274k based on 205 listings with published compensation.
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