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

backendgopythonrustmicroservicesapi-designdistributed-systems
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, Software Engineer

Fireworks AI · New York, NY · $175k - $220k
mlops cloud pytorch gpu agents payments fine-tuning distributed-systems
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Serve Robotics · Remote (US) · $177k - $215k
robotics computer-vision gpu distributed-systems data-pipeline autonomous-vehicles deep-learning machine-learning
Remote full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Staff Security Engineer, IAM

Coinbase · Remote (US) · $218k - $256k
llm code-generation microservices payments security data-pipeline generative-ai cloud
Hybrid full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Software Engineer, Cloud Inference Safeguards

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405k - $485k
alignment agents data-pipeline rust inference
Hybrid full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Engineering Manager, Machine Learning (Caper)

Instacart · Remote (US) · $201k - $212k
mlops pytorch robotics llm cloud distributed-systems computer-vision deep-learning
Remote full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Senior / Staff Software Engineer, ML Datasets & Data Pipelines

Waabi · Toronto, Canada · $148k - $260k
pytorch autonomous-vehicles deep-learning distributed-systems cloud tensorflow data-pipeline data-engineering
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Tech Lead Manager, Agentic Runtime

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

AI Engineering Lead

Hex · SF or NYC · $246k - $329k
cloud llm api-design agents
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Consumer

Reddit · Remote (US) · $230k - $322k
tensorflow llm deep-learning pytorch data-pipeline agents nlp distributed-systems
Remote full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Safeguards Enforcement Lead, Frontier Abuse Enforcement

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $230k - $270k
fine-tuning alignment generative-ai rust
Hybrid full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Staff ML Engineer - ML Infrastructure

Samsara · Remote (Canada) · $196k - $269k
distributed-systems fine-tuning cloud llm computer-vision infrastructure machine-learning
Hybrid full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Staff ML Engineer - ML Infrastructure

Samsara · Remote (US) · $200k - $357k
computer-vision fine-tuning llm distributed-systems cloud infrastructure machine-learning
Hybrid full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer, Agentic AI

Netskope · San Jose, CA · $119k - $242k
distributed-systems fine-tuning cloud agents llm devops
On-site full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Sr. Staff SDET, Agentic AI

Netskope · San Jose, CA · $119k - $242k
llm data-pipeline rag distributed-systems agents embeddings fine-tuning security
On-site full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Sr. Director of Product, Research and Training Infrastructure

CoreWeave · Sunnyvale, CA · $233k - $341k
reinforcement-learning distributed-systems pre-training generative-ai gpu research infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer

Crusoe · San Francisco, CA · $208k - $253k
distributed-systems data-pipeline cloud agents pytorch gpu
On-site full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Staff Backend Software Engineer

Databricks · New York, NY · $190k - $261k
mlops agents pytorch cloud llm data-pipeline distributed-systems backend
On-site full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Staff Machine Learning Systems Engineer

Reddit · Remote (US) · $230k - $322k
data-pipeline tensorflow pytorch deep-learning cloud distributed-systems mlops machine-learning
Remote full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Applied Research Engineer - Member of Technical Staff

Simile · Palo Alto, CA · $200k - $400k
distributed-systems generative-ai fine-tuning search agents deep-learning research
On-site full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Finance Systems Integration Engineer

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $205k - $265k
agents api-design llm alignment payments data-pipeline
On-site full-time lead 4 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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