# 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: Backend
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-11-03
- Skills: Client Roles
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/true-talent-solutions-partners/93ba19e3-3109-4fd9-a7ad-ae21337239d2

## Description

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, Cali

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