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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Director, Compute Platforms & AI

PsiQuantum · Milpitas, CA · $215k - $255k
code-generation generative-ai cloud llm distributed-systems
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Member of Technical Staff - Training Platform

Prime Intellect · San Francisco, CA · $150k - $300k
fine-tuning api-design gpu distributed-systems cloud reinforcement-learning agents llm
Hybrid full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Member of Technical Staff - Sandbox Platform

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

Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Inference Launch Engineering

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $485k
llm distributed-systems alignment infrastructure inference
Hybrid full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Senior Staff Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Feed Relevance

Reddit · Remote (US) · $266k - $372k
distributed-systems data-pipeline healthcare api-design machine-learning
Remote full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer, Inference

CoreWeave · Sunnyvale, CA · $188k - $275k
llm distributed-systems gpu inference
Hybrid full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Engineering Manager, Platform

OpenRouter · Remote (US) · $245k - $295k
cloud distributed-systems llm platform
Remote full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $405k
cloud distributed-systems alignment kubernetes infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Director of AI - Intelligence Platform

Ironclad · San Francisco, CA · $285k - $315k
llm distributed-systems payments code-generation healthcare fine-tuning agents platform
Hybrid full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Research Engineer, Agents

Decagon · San Francisco, CA · $200k - $400k
search agents distributed-systems research
On-site full-time lead 3 weeks ago
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Research Engineer, Agents

Decagon · New York, NY · $200k - $400k
search distributed-systems agents research
On-site full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Harvey AI · San Francisco, CA · $231k - $340k
agents generative-ai llm backend
Remote full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Harvey AI · New York, NY · $231k - $340k
llm generative-ai agents backend
Remote full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Measurement Modeling

Reddit · Remote (US) · $230k - $322k
pytorch distributed-systems tensorflow healthcare fine-tuning machine-learning
Remote full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer, AI Foundations

Temporal · Remote (US) · $224k - $302k
agents data-pipeline distributed-systems generative-ai
Remote full-time lead 4 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer - AI Research Infrastructure

Databricks · New York, NY · $190k - $270k
data-pipeline distributed-systems llm agents search research infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 4 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer - Agent Quality

Databricks · New York, NY · $190k - $270k
llm search distributed-systems agents data-pipeline
On-site full-time lead 4 weeks ago

Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Cluster Infrastructure

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $405k
cloud distributed-systems alignment infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 4 weeks ago

Staff AI Security Engineer

CoreWeave · Sunnyvale, CA · $188k - $275k
code-generation alignment agents cloud llm distributed-systems mlops security
Hybrid full-time lead 4 weeks ago

Software Engineer - Back End

Distyl AI · San Francisco, CA · $150k - $250k
microservices distributed-systems healthcare cloud
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago
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