# Lead Software Engineer, Platform at True Talent Solutions Partners

- Company: True Talent Solutions Partners
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Francisco
- Level: Lead
- Discipline: Engineering
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-11-02
- Skills: platform, AI/ML
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/true-talent-solutions-partners/aa2a1b7b-397d-42ca-b086-0d2a9a4ccaa1

## Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join a platform team at an AI/ML startup, helping build and strengthen the systems behind document processing. You will partner with ML engineers to make customer workloads fast, reliable, and cost efficient.


WHAT YOU'LL DO

 - Own and improve the platform that runs document processing workloads, with a focus on speed, reliability, and cost efficiency.

 - Work with ML 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 as workload volume grows, addressing latency, reliability, and scaling challenges.

 - Join 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 work on distributed systems.

 - Python proficiency, or deep Go or Rust expertise and willingness to work in Python.

 - Experience building and scaling core infrastructure, task orchestration, and reliable platforms.

 - Application-level engineering experience in addition to infrastructure work, as well as on-call experience.

 - Background in a startup or other fast-moving environment, with experience supporting systems at scale.

 - Experience with cloud infrastructure and model-serving optimization is valuable.


COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

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


LOCATION

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

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