Lead Backend & Systems Jobs

597 lead backend & systems roles at 192 companies · Avg salary $270k (258 with data)

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

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Staff Product Security Engineer

Crusoe · San Francisco, CA · $250k - $285k
mlops distributed-systems microservices llm rag embeddings agents security
On-site full-time lead 11 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Performance Optimization

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

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Suki · Redwood City, CA · $225k - $250k
nlp generative-ai healthcare data-pipeline api-design llm pytorch machine-learning
On-site full-time lead 11 months ago

Senior / Staff ML Optimization Engineer

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

Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
distributed-systems data-pipeline reinforcement-learning alignment agents search research
Hybrid full-time lead 12 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, AI Training Infrastructure

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

Member of Technical Staff, Research

Fireworks AI · San Mateo, CA · $175k - $240k
generative-ai pytorch llm tensorflow distributed-systems agents deep-learning mlops
On-site full-time lead 1 year ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure)

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

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Product)

Otter.ai · Mountain View, CA · $210k - $275k
search mlops distributed-systems data-pipeline api-design 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
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Staff Data Engineer

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

Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Simulation Platform

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

Staff Software Engineer, Full-Stack - Enterprise Gen AI

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

Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling

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

Sr. Staff Software Engineer — Agentic AI & Digital Experience

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

Member of Technical Staff - Full Stack

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

Staff Software Engineer, Search Infrastructure

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

Research Engineer - AI/RL Infrastructure

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

Research Engineer

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

Lead Software Engineer, Full-Stack - Applications

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