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 Research Engineer, Discovery Team

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
data-pipeline search reinforcement-learning alignment distributed-systems agents research
Hybrid full-time lead 11 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, AI Training Infrastructure

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

Member of Technical Staff, Research

Fireworks AI · San Mateo, CA · $175k - $240k
mlops agents llm deep-learning generative-ai pytorch tensorflow distributed-systems
On-site full-time lead 12 months ago

Distributed Systems Cluster Security Software – Engineering Lead

Cerebras · Sunnyvale, CA · $140k - $240k
security distributed-systems agents generative-ai
On-site full-time lead 1 year ago

Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Simulation Platform

Waabi · Toronto, Canada · $159k - $268k
robotics distributed-systems autonomous-vehicles generative-ai
On-site full-time lead 1 year ago

Staff Software Engineer, Full-Stack - Enterprise Gen AI

Scale AI · New York, NY · $248k - $310k
rag generative-ai cloud api-design agents fullstack
On-site full-time lead 1 year ago

Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · $252k - $315k
code-generation agents generative-ai llm distributed-systems reinforcement-learning cloud developer-tools
On-site full-time lead 1 year ago

Sr. Staff Software Engineer — Agentic AI & Digital Experience

Zscaler · San Jose, CA · $147k - $220k
distributed-systems generative-ai security fine-tuning agents microservices data-pipeline llm
Hybrid full-time lead 1 year ago

Member of Technical Staff - Full Stack

Prime Intellect · San Francisco, CA · $150k - $300k
agents reinforcement-learning api-design distributed-systems cloud fullstack
Hybrid full-time lead 1 year ago

Staff Software Engineer, Search Infrastructure

Moveworks · Mountain View, CA · $163k - $286k
agents embeddings distributed-systems search llm microservices cloud infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 1 year ago

Research Engineer - AI/RL Infrastructure

Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale, CA · $126k - $423k
data-pipeline search gpu pytorch autonomous-vehicles robotics cloud distributed-systems
On-site full-time lead 1 year ago

Research Engineer

Lightning AI · London, UK · $180k - $250k
deep-learning gpu distributed-systems pytorch search research
On-site full-time lead 1 year ago

Lead Software Engineer, Full-Stack - Applications

C3 AI · Redwood City, CA · $175k - $219k
agents distributed-systems generative-ai fullstack
On-site full-time lead 2 years ago

Member of Technical Staff, Supercomputing Platform & Infrastructure

Magic · San Francisco, CA · $200k - $550k
distributed-systems code-generation gpu pre-training infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 2 years ago

Research Engineer

Magic · San Francisco, CA · $225k - $550k
deep-learning gpu pre-training code-generation distributed-systems llm search data-pipeline
On-site full-time lead 2 years ago

Lead/Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack – AI Studio

C3 AI · Redwood City, CA · $145k - $219k
generative-ai distributed-systems agents fullstack
On-site full-time lead 3 years ago

Member of Technical Staff - Security

Prime Intellect · Remote · $180k - $350k
agents cloud gpu reinforcement-learning distributed-systems security
Remote full-time lead 1 day ago

Site Reliability Engineer, Metal

Tenstorrent · Toronto, Canada · $100k - $500k
distributed-systems cloud devops
On-site full-time lead 4 days ago

Infrastructure Automation Engineer, Metal

Tenstorrent · Toronto, Canada · $100k - $500k
distributed-systems cloud infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 4 days ago

Staff Software Engineer, Foundations (Managed AI)

Crusoe · San Francisco, CA · $208k - $253k
distributed-systems llm
On-site full-time lead 5 days 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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