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 3 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join a platform engineering team at an AI and machine learning startup, strengthening the infrastructure behind document processing workflows. You will help make customer jobs faster, more reliable, and cost-efficient while collaborating closely with machine learning engineers.

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 machine learning teams to serve in-house models efficiently and integrate them into production pipelines.
  • Build and maintain infrastructure for databases, task orchestration, workload scheduling, and cloud deployments.
  • Improve distributed systems by addressing latency, reliability, and scaling challenges as usage grows.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and take end-to-end ownership of platform health.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 5 years of platform or backend engineering experience, including work with distributed systems.
  • Experience building and scaling core infrastructure, task orchestration, and reliable platforms.
  • Application-level engineering experience in addition to infrastructure work.
  • Proficiency in Python, or deep Go or Rust experience and willingness to work in Python.
  • Cloud infrastructure, model serving optimization, and on-call experience.
  • Startup experience or a demonstrated record of taking on increasing technical responsibility.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $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 123 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 127 open in Client Roles. 127 were posted in the last 30 days, including 7 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (66 of 127), LLM (48 of 127), TypeScript (46 of 127), React (44 of 127), JavaScript (27 of 127), Machine Learning (27 of 127), AWS (25 of 127)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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Posting history

Reposted 4 times since 28 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

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