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

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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

Product Engineer - Member of Technical Staff

Simile · Palo Alto, CA · $200k - $400k
distributed-systems agents generative-ai fullstack
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer, API

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405k - $485k
alignment distributed-systems api-design agents
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure

Decagon · San Francisco, CA · $200k - $400k
gpu distributed-systems agents llm fine-tuning machine-learning infrastructure
Remote full-time lead 1 month ago

Offensive Security Research Engineer, Safeguards

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

Software Engineer - AI Productivity

Hightouch · Remote (US) · $180k - $320k
data-pipeline llm api-design cloud agents code-generation
Remote full-time lead 1 month ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Perception Data

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $281k - $356k
tensorflow generative-ai mlops autonomous-vehicles robotics llm fine-tuning distributed-systems
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Product Manager, AI Platform

Databricks · Seattle, WA · $172k - $237k
data-pipeline llm distributed-systems mlops
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Product Manager, AI Platform

Databricks · San Francisco, CA · $181k - $249k
distributed-systems llm mlops data-pipeline
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff+ Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405k - $485k
distributed-systems cloud security alignment data-pipeline payments infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Observability / SRE)

Waabi · Toronto, Canada · $148k - $249k
pytorch distributed-systems microservices cloud devops
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Simulator Evaluation

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $238k - $302k
api-design diffusion-models robotics generative-ai llm distributed-systems search autonomous-vehicles
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff / Senior Software Engineer, AI Reliability

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $325k - $485k
distributed-systems llm mlops alignment infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer – VLM/LLM Evaluation

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $238k - $302k
agents pre-training generative-ai pytorch distributed-systems tensorflow deep-learning reinforcement-learning
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Lead AI Architect, Salesforce Service Cloud & AWS

Natera · Austin, TX · $152k - $191k
llm api-design cloud data-pipeline rag embeddings generative-ai fine-tuning
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, AI & Strategy

Toast · Remote (US) · $151k - $242k
cloud rag fine-tuning payments llm distributed-systems agents data-pipeline
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Glean · San Francisco, CA · $200k - $260k
cloud llm agents security distributed-systems devops
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Software Engineer, Infrastructure (8+ YOE)

Airtable · San Francisco, CA · $196k - $339k
embeddings data-pipeline distributed-systems infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Inference

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $485k
llm distributed-systems alignment payments inference infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Quality Signals

Pinterest · San Francisco, CA · $189k - $389k
tensorflow code-generation distributed-systems pytorch fine-tuning embeddings nlp llm
Remote full-time lead 2 months ago

Technical Lead / Manager (TLM) - Contract AI

Ironclad · San Francisco, CA · $245k - $295k
rag agents mlops llm distributed-systems
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months 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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