Lead Backend & Systems Jobs

588 lead backend & systems roles at 190 companies · Avg salary $268k (252 with data)

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

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Staff Software Engineer, Agent Orchestration

Decagon · New York, NY · $200k - $400k
agents distributed-systems
Remote full-time lead 1 month ago

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

Playground · New York, NY · $220k - $300k
cloud backend
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Engineer, API Core Platform

Together AI · San Francisco, CA · $240k - $275k
api-design cloud platform
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Software Engineer, Account Abuse

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $405k
alignment rust
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Forward Deployed AI Architect

Distyl AI · San Francisco, CA · $180k - $250k
healthcare data-pipeline distributed-systems
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Engineering Leader, ML Platform

Attentive · San Francisco, CA · $227k - $300k
distributed-systems platform
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Mobile iOS Engineer

xAI · London, UK · $180k - $440k
api-design mobile
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Software Engineer, Product Engineering

Instabase · San Francisco, CA · $237k - $255k
cloud microservices distributed-systems
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Software Engineer II, Backend (AI Agents)

Affirm · Remote (Canada) · $125k - $175k
agents backend
Remote full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff+ Software Engineer, Systems

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405k - $485k
alignment distributed-systems infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago
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Staff Engineer, Platform & Systems

Retell AI · San Francisco, CA · $225k - $350k
distributed-systems speech platform
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Network Security Engineer

FluidStack · New York, NY · $200k - $350k
cloud distributed-systems security
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Software Engineer, Compute Efficiency

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $405k
alignment cloud distributed-systems
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Ambience Healthcare · San Francisco, CA · $250k - $300k
healthcare payments distributed-systems
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Systems Architect - POSIX

Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale, CA · $204k - $359k
cloud api-design security
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Systems Architect - RTOS

Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale, CA · $204k - $359k
cloud api-design
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer - Ad Serving - Moloco Commerce Media

Moloco · Menlo Park, CA · $216k - $270k
distributed-systems generative-ai platform
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Manager, Datacenter Network Engineering

RunPod · Remote (US) · $150k - $240k
distributed-systems cloud gpu
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer- AI Workload Orchestration

CoreWeave · Sunnyvale, CA · $188k - $275k
gpu distributed-systems
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Performance and Scale

Inferact · San Francisco, CA · $200k - $400k
llm distributed-systems research
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago
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