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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Senior or Staff MLE - Droid Perception (Onboard)

Zipline · San Francisco, CA · $180k - $265k
robotics data-pipeline distributed-systems computer-vision healthcare deep-learning
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Vibe Labs

Generate Biomedicines · Somerville, MA · $154k - $231k
generative-ai deep-learning distributed-systems healthcare fine-tuning
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Continuous Learning

Aurora Innovation · San Francisco, CA · $189k - $303k
llm deep-learning reinforcement-learning distributed-systems generative-ai pytorch autonomous-vehicles computer-vision
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, AI

Okta · Bellevue, WA · $194k - $267k
api-design cloud llm distributed-systems generative-ai agents rag microservices
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Pre-training Systems

Magic · San Francisco, CA · $225k - $550k
deep-learning code-generation distributed-systems pre-training gpu
On-site full-time lead 3 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Inference & RL Systems

Magic · San Francisco, CA · $225k - $550k
code-generation pre-training distributed-systems inference
On-site full-time lead 3 months ago

Infrastructure Engineer - Member of Technical Staff

Simile · San Francisco, CA · $200k - $400k
distributed-systems agents cloud generative-ai infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 3 months ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer, API

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405k - $485k
alignment agents distributed-systems api-design
Hybrid full-time lead 3 months ago

Lead Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure

Allen Institute for AI · Seattle, WA · $146k - $220k
robotics distributed-systems fine-tuning gpu cloud infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure

Decagon · San Francisco, CA · $200k - $400k
llm agents gpu fine-tuning distributed-systems infrastructure machine-learning
Remote full-time lead 3 months ago
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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Perception Data

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $281k - $356k
fine-tuning llm tensorflow autonomous-vehicles pytorch robotics distributed-systems mlops
On-site full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff Product Manager, AI Platform

Databricks · Seattle, WA · $172k - $237k
llm mlops distributed-systems data-pipeline
On-site full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff Product Manager, AI Platform

Databricks · San Francisco, CA · $181k - $249k
data-pipeline mlops distributed-systems llm
On-site full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Marketplace

ZocDoc · New York, NY · $180k - $265k
search microservices healthcare llm
Hybrid full-time lead 3 months ago

Technical Director, Media & Entertainment AI Infrastructure

Nebius · New York, NY · $295k - $365k
distributed-systems computer-graphics data-pipeline generative-ai gpu cloud mlops infrastructure
Remote full-time lead 3 months ago

Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Observability / SRE)

Waabi · Toronto, Canada · $148k - $249k
distributed-systems microservices pytorch devops
On-site full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Cloud FinOps

Attentive · United States · $180k - $240k
api-design pytorch cloud tensorflow microservices
On-site full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data Flywheel

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $250k - $334k
autonomous-vehicles distributed-systems llm machine-learning
On-site full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Simulator Evaluation

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $238k - $302k
llm api-design generative-ai robotics distributed-systems search autonomous-vehicles diffusion-models
On-site full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, AI Reliability

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $325k - $485k
alignment llm distributed-systems mlops infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 3 months ago
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