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

Staff Software Engineer, Expert Research

AlphaSense · Remote (US) · $202k - $278k
search api-design payments distributed-systems research
Remote full-time lead 2 months ago

Director of Data Science, Trust & Safety, Signals and Content Understanding

Pinterest · San Francisco, CA · $228k - $471k
generative-ai llm agents data-science rust
Remote full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Applied Training

CoreWeave · Sunnyvale, CA · $165k - $242k
pytorch distributed-systems agents search
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Harvey AI · New York, NY · $201k - $264k
cloud distributed-systems agents infrastructure
Remote full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Harvey AI · San Francisco, CA · $236k - $290k
agents distributed-systems cloud infrastructure
Remote full-time lead 2 months ago

Threat Collections Engineer

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $320k
data-pipeline llm alignment rust
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · $252k - $315k
pre-training generative-ai reinforcement-learning data-pipeline distributed-systems fine-tuning cloud llm
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · $252k - $315k
distributed-systems search llm fine-tuning pre-training generative-ai reinforcement-learning platform
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Head of Engineering, Platform

Goodfire · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $450k
distributed-systems alignment pytorch research
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Biological Safety Research Scientist

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $320k
alignment llm research rust
Hybrid full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude App Infrastructure

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $485k
alignment agents security distributed-systems infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff Software Engineer - LLM / AI Agents

Twilio · Remote (US) · $197k - $246k
agents fine-tuning distributed-systems healthcare llm
Remote full-time lead 3 months ago

Senior/Lead Software Engineer - Developer Experience

C3 AI · Redwood City, CA · $150k - $219k
deep-learning agents generative-ai distributed-systems
On-site full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff Machine Learning SWE Infra

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $238k - $302k
distributed-systems autonomous-vehicles robotics tensorflow fine-tuning pytorch machine-learning infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 3 months ago

Lead Engineer, Reinforcement Learning & Scenario Generation

Serve Robotics · San Francisco, CA · $160k - $190k
reinforcement-learning gpu agents cloud llm pytorch computer-graphics distributed-systems
Remote full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform

Harvey AI · San Francisco, CA · $238k - $290k
generative-ai embeddings agents microservices distributed-systems platform backend
Remote full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, ML Search

Reddit · Remote (US) · $230k - $322k
search healthcare api-design machine-learning
Remote full-time lead 4 months ago

Staff GenAI Backend Engineer, Automation Foundation

Airbnb · Remote (US) · $204k - $255k
llm rag agents generative-ai backend
Remote full-time lead 4 months ago

Software Engineer, Sandboxing (Systems)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $405k
llm alignment cloud distributed-systems infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 4 months ago

Lead Research Engineer

Lightning AI · London, UK · $225k - $275k
search deep-learning distributed-systems pytorch gpu research
On-site full-time lead 4 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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