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 Data Engineer

Gradient AI · Remote · $150k - $190k
cloud healthcare distributed-systems data-pipeline data-engineering
Remote full-time lead 2 months ago

Fullstack Engineer - Education (Spanish Bilingual)

xAI · Palo Alto, CA · $180k - $440k
api-design generative-ai fullstack
On-site full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx)

Harvey AI · San Francisco, CA · $238k - $290k
distributed-systems agents
Remote full-time lead 3 months ago

Robotics Engineer

Turing · Remote · $172k - $202k
distributed-systems generative-ai robotics deep-learning fine-tuning pytorch agents
Remote full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Streaming Infrastructure

Robinhood · Bellevue, WA · $180k - $211k
distributed-systems data-pipeline infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Agent Orchestration

Decagon · San Francisco, CA · $200k - $400k
distributed-systems agents
Remote full-time lead 4 months ago

Mobile iOS Engineer

xAI · New York, NY · $180k - $440k
api-design mobile
Remote full-time lead 4 months ago

Sr/Staff Software Engineer - Payments

Fal · San Francisco, CA · $160k - $200k
data-pipeline payments microservices
On-site full-time lead 4 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering

Gamma · San Francisco, CA · $230k - $310k
distributed-systems data-pipeline data-engineering
Hybrid full-time lead 5 months ago

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Figure AI · San Jose, CA · $175k - $250k
distributed-systems robotics devops
On-site full-time lead 5 months ago
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Member of Technical Staff, AI Reliability & Monitoring Engineering Lead

Postman · San Francisco, CA · $256k - $276k
agents distributed-systems
On-site full-time lead 6 months ago

Manager, Engineering - AI/BI

Databricks · Vancouver, Canada · $171k - $227k
distributed-systems data-pipeline
On-site full-time lead 7 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Inference

Prime Intellect · Remote · $150k - $300k
gpu llm cloud agents api-design pytorch reinforcement-learning inference
Hybrid full-time lead 7 months ago

Staff Software Engineer - AI SDK

Temporal · Remote (US) · $224k - $302k
distributed-systems generative-ai
Remote full-time lead 7 months ago

GPU Systems Engineer – HPC / Parallel Computing

Vast.ai · San Francisco, CA · $160k - $320k
llm gpu distributed-systems
On-site full-time lead 7 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Hardcore Supercompute

xAI · Palo Alto, CA · $180k - $440k
distributed-systems infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 8 months ago

Full Stack Engineer

Roboflow · Remote · $165k - $195k
api-design tensorflow computer-vision fullstack
Remote full-time lead 8 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Real-Time Storage

xAI · Palo Alto, CA · $180k - $440k
distributed-systems embeddings infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 8 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Data Platform

xAI · Palo Alto, CA · $180k - $440k
distributed-systems data-pipeline
On-site full-time lead 8 months ago

R&D Software Engineer Lead & CISO

Baidu · Mountain View, CA · $159k - $229k
cloud distributed-systems microservices
On-site full-time lead 9 months ago
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