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

Staff Software Developer - Enterprise AI

Rubrik · Palo Alto, CA · $185k - $278k
agents llm distributed-systems api-design fine-tuning cloud
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Software Engineer

Toast · Remote (Canada) · $175k - $220k
api-design distributed-systems llm microservices
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Harvey AI · New York, NY · $201k - $264k
cloud agents distributed-systems infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Harvey AI · San Francisco, CA · $236k - $290k
cloud distributed-systems agents infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform

Harvey AI · New York, NY · $231k - $340k
agents distributed-systems generative-ai platform
Remote full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform

Harvey AI · San Francisco, CA · $231k - $340k
agents generative-ai distributed-systems platform
Remote full-time lead 1 month ago

Lead ML Engineer - Lane & Route Network Mapping

May Mobility · Anywhere · $220k - $270k
autonomous-vehicles pytorch computer-vision distributed-systems healthcare robotics tensorflow computer-graphics
Remote full-time lead 1 month ago

Backend Engineer - API

xAI · Palo Alto, CA · $180k - $440k
distributed-systems llm mlops agents api-design backend
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Indexing & Retrieval Platform

Reddit · Remote (US) · $279k - $390k
cloud search generative-ai healthcare distributed-systems evaluation machine-learning
Remote full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Vehicle Compliance Reasoning

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $251k - $310k
autonomous-vehicles llm robotics api-design pytorch tensorflow deep-learning fine-tuning
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago
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Member of Technical Staff

Simile · San Francisco, CA · $200k - $400k
distributed-systems search generative-ai deep-learning agents mlops fine-tuning pytorch
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Deployment

Kodiak Robotics · San Francisco, CA · $200k - $265k
tensorflow autonomous-vehicles data-pipeline distributed-systems pytorch deep-learning mlops robotics
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Data Lake, Anomaly Detection

Zscaler · San Jose, CA · $154k - $220k
generative-ai security fine-tuning microservices llm agents data-pipeline distributed-systems
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Tech Lead Manager, Admin Console

Glean · San Francisco, CA · $250k - $300k
llm distributed-systems agents cloud
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal Understanding

xAI · Palo Alto, CA · $180k - $440k
pre-training distributed-systems jax agents reinforcement-learning generative-ai llm pytorch
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Full-Stack Software Engineer, Reinforcement Learning

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $405k
cloud llm api-design data-pipeline code-generation agents reinforcement-learning fine-tuning
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Data Scientist

Ripple · Chicago, IL · $196k - $245k
healthcare data-pipeline distributed-systems cloud data-science
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Member of Technical Staff - Security

Prime Intellect · San Francisco, CA · $180k - $350k
agents distributed-systems cloud security reinforcement-learning gpu
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Infrastructure and Platform Engineer, Metal

Tenstorrent · United States · $100k - $500k
cloud distributed-systems platform infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Attack Engineer, AI/LLM

Horizon3 AI · Remote (US) · $223k - $275k
mlops cloud llm agents microservices embeddings security
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago
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