True Talent Solutions Partners

Lead Software Engineer, Platform

San Francisco
Salary
$220,000 - $320,000 annually
Level
Lead
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Sponsors visas

Open. First seen 29 October 2026.

About the role

About the Role

Join the platform team at an AI and machine learning company building document processing technology. You will strengthen the systems behind customer workloads, working closely with ML engineers to improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

What You'll Do

  • Own and improve the platform that runs document processing jobs, with a focus on speed, reliability, and cost efficiency.
  • Partner with ML teams to serve in-house models efficiently and integrate them into production pipelines.
  • Build and maintain databases, task orchestration, workload scheduling, and cloud deployment infrastructure.
  • Improve distributed systems to address latency, reliability, and scaling challenges as workload volume grows.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and take end-to-end responsibility for platform health.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 5 years of platform or backend engineering experience, including building distributed systems.
  • Strong Python skills, or deep Go or Rust expertise and willingness to work in Python.
  • Experience with task orchestration, platform reliability, cloud infrastructure, and model serving optimization.
  • Application-level engineering experience in addition to infrastructure work, along with production on-call experience.
  • Experience owning and scaling core infrastructure, ideally including work in a fast-growing startup and mature systems at scale.
  • Evidence of technical impact through growing responsibility, rapid career progression, or open-source contributions.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $220,000 to $320,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Golang · Rust

Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 126 open postings.

Standard for software engineering roles

Python

Common in software engineering postings at any company.

Compared with True Talent Solutions Partners's other open jobs.

The team: Client Roles

This role is one of 125 open in Client Roles. 125 were posted in the last 30 days, including 5 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (70 of 125), TypeScript (45 of 125), LLM (44 of 125), React (37 of 125), Machine Learning (35 of 125), AWS (26 of 125), JavaScript (24 of 125)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on True Talent Solutions Partners's own job board.

Other openings for this role

2 postings for this role in San Francisco since 28 October 2026, 1 still open. None has been taken down and posted again.

  • 29 October 2026 – open (this posting)
  • 28 October 2026 – closed 29 October 2026

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