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# Lead Software Engineer, Platform

- **Company:** True
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $220,000.0 - $320,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Databases, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Cloud Services, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_30938f779fe95e246fbc3153f062d18b

## About the Role

* - At least 5 years of platform or backend engineering experience, including work with distributed systems.
 * - Strong Python skills, or deep Go or Rust expertise and willingness to work in Python.
 * - Experience building and scaling infrastructure, task orchestration, and reliable production platforms.
 * - Application-level engineering experience in addition to infrastructure work.
 * - Experience with on-call support, cloud infrastructure, and ideally model-serving optimization.
 * - Background working in a startup or other fast-moving engineering environment, with experience owning systems in production.

## Description

Join a platform engineering team at an AI/ML company, building and strengthening the systems that power document processing. You will help ensure customer workloads run quickly and reliably while improving model serving and infrastructure efficiency., * - Own and improve the core platform for document processing workloads, focusing 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 databases, task orchestration, workload scheduling, and cloud deployments.
 * - Improve distributed systems by addressing latency, reliability, and scaling challenges as workload volume grows.
 * - Join the on-call rotation and take end-to-end responsibility for platform health.