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

backendgopythonrustmicroservicesapi-designdistributed-systems
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 - GenAI inference

Databricks · San Francisco, CA · $190k - $232k
cloud gpu data-pipeline generative-ai llm distributed-systems mlops inference
On-site full-time lead 6 months ago

Senior Technical Lead Manager, Core Platform

Moveworks · Mountain View, CA · $187k - $328k
agents search cloud distributed-systems llm
On-site full-time lead 6 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Harvey AI · New York, NY · $238k - $290k
agents llm generative-ai backend
Remote full-time lead 6 months ago

Staff Data Scientist - Trust and Safety

Databricks · San Francisco, CA · $192k - $260k
security data-pipeline rust data-science
On-site full-time lead 6 months ago

Site Reliability Engineer - Cybersecurity

xAI · Palo Alto, CA · $180k - $440k
distributed-systems payments security data-pipeline devops
On-site full-time lead 6 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, ML Frameworks & Efficiency

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $238k - $302k
distributed-systems autonomous-vehicles tensorflow deep-learning gpu
On-site full-time lead 7 months ago

Senior or Staff MLE - Droid Perception (Offboard)

Zipline · San Francisco, CA · $180k - $265k
computer-vision deep-learning healthcare distributed-systems robotics data-pipeline
On-site full-time lead 7 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Harvey AI · San Francisco, CA · $238k - $290k
llm agents generative-ai backend
Remote full-time lead 7 months ago

Lead Software Engineer, Product Backend

Glean · San Francisco, CA · $140k - $265k
llm api-design agents backend
On-site full-time lead 8 months ago

AI Infrastructure Architect

Okta · Bellevue, WA · $235k - $353k
cloud generative-ai llm fine-tuning mlops distributed-systems infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 8 months ago

Forward Deployed Engineer, GenAI

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · $179k - $224k
autonomous-vehicles generative-ai llm distributed-systems reinforcement-learning
On-site full-time lead 8 months ago

Staff Engineer, Core Platform

Moveworks · Mountain View, CA · $163k - $286k
distributed-systems agents cloud llm microservices
On-site full-time lead 8 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure Reliability

xAI · Palo Alto, CA · $180k - $400k
cloud gpu distributed-systems infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 8 months ago

Staff Software Engineer - ML Observability

Datadog · Boston, MA · $234k - $300k
generative-ai llm healthcare distributed-systems
Hybrid full-time lead 8 months ago

Staff Software Engineer - Customer Engagement & Docs Platform

Databricks · San Francisco, CA · $190k - $260k
llm data-pipeline distributed-systems platform
On-site full-time lead 10 months ago

Senior Staff Software Developer, Developer Productivity & AI Tooling

Robinhood · Toronto, Canada · $234k - $275k
code-generation agents cloud distributed-systems infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 10 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise GenAI

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · $248k - $310k
distributed-systems generative-ai rag llm embeddings
On-site full-time lead 10 months ago

Staff Product Security Engineer

Crusoe · San Francisco, CA · $250k - $285k
llm embeddings agents rag mlops distributed-systems microservices security
On-site full-time lead 10 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Performance Optimization

Fireworks AI · San Mateo, CA · $175k - $220k
mlops llm pytorch generative-ai gpu distributed-systems agents
On-site full-time lead 11 months ago

Senior / Staff ML Optimization Engineer

Waabi · Remote (US) · $141k - $249k
pytorch mlops gpu robotics deep-learning distributed-systems autonomous-vehicles
Remote full-time lead 11 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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