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 6 November 2026.

About the role

About the Role

Join a small platform team at an AI company building document processing systems. You will strengthen the core platform that runs customer workloads, with a focus on performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

What You'll Do

  • Own and improve the platform that runs document processing jobs, ensuring speed, reliability, and cost efficiency as usage grows.
  • Partner with machine learning engineers to serve in-house models efficiently and integrate them into production workflows.
  • Build and maintain infrastructure for databases, task orchestration, workload scheduling, and cloud deployments.
  • Improve distributed systems by addressing latency, reliability, and scaling challenges.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation 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 distributed systems work.
  • 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.
  • Experience with on-call operations, cloud infrastructure, and optimizing model serving.
  • Background in a startup or demonstrated senior-level growth and ownership in a larger organization.

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 125 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 124 open in Client Roles. 124 were posted in the last 30 days, including 6 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (71 of 124), TypeScript (47 of 124), LLM (46 of 124), React (42 of 124), Machine Learning (36 of 124), AWS (31 of 124), JavaScript (27 of 124)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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Posting history

Reposted 5 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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