Lead Backend & Systems Jobs

588 lead backend & systems roles at 190 companies · Avg salary $268k (252 with data)

Backend engineering, distributed systems, and API development at AI companies

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Member of Technical Staff, AI Training Infrastructure

Fireworks AI · San Mateo, CA · $175k - $220k
mlops llm agents distributed-systems generative-ai pytorch infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 12 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Research

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

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure)

Otter.ai · Mountain View, CA · $210k - $275k
distributed-systems mlops search api-design data-pipeline backend infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 1 year ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Product)

Otter.ai · Mountain View, CA · $210k - $275k
distributed-systems api-design mlops search data-pipeline backend
On-site full-time lead 1 year ago

Distributed Systems Cluster Security Software – Engineering Lead

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

Staff Data Engineer

IonQ · Denver, CO · $162k - $213k
data-pipeline distributed-systems fine-tuning deep-learning security pytorch cloud data-engineering
On-site full-time lead 1 year ago

Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Simulation Platform

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

Staff Software Engineer, Full-Stack - Enterprise Gen AI

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

Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling

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

Sr. Staff Software Engineer — Agentic AI & Digital Experience

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

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

Staff Software Engineer, Search Infrastructure

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

Research Engineer - AI/RL Infrastructure

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

Research Engineer

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

Lead Software Engineer, Full-Stack - Applications

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

Member of Technical Staff, Supercomputing Platform & Infrastructure

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

Research Engineer

Magic · San Francisco, CA · $225k - $550k
code-generation data-pipeline distributed-systems pre-training search llm deep-learning gpu
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 agents distributed-systems fullstack
On-site full-time lead 3 years ago

Staff Software Engineer, Frontend New

Gamma · San Francisco, CA · $230k - $310k
api-design llm frontend
Hybrid full-time lead 7 hours ago

Engineering Lead - Consumer Subscriptions New

xAI · Palo Alto, CA · $180k - $440k
payments distributed-systems
On-site full-time lead 1 day ago
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