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Lead Backend Software Engineer, Digital Assembly Line

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $100,000–$100,000🗓 2021-12-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and implement backend tools and APIs that orchestrate Avala's Digital Assembly Line for AI-assisted human labeling, data curation, and ML workflows.

Role type

Lead Backend Software Engineer (ML Ops platform)

Builds

Backend API stack, large-scale data processing pipelines, and tooling for model training, validation, and deployment.

Domain

AI/ML infrastructure, data engineering, cloud computing

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, RESTful API design, SQL (relational and non-relational), Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, software architecture design, observability (logging/monitoring/alerting)

Preferred skills

Computer vision, neural networks, AWS services (EC2/S3/RDS/SQS), big data systems (Spark/Hadoop), scientific computing libraries (numpy/pandas/scikit-learn), ElasticSearch, real-time data processing

Technologies

Python, Django, Flask, Tornado, SQL Server, MySQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, ElasticSearch

Responsibilities

Own the architecture, design, development, deployment, and operations of the backend API stack; Design and implement large-scale data processing pipelines for images, videos, text, audio, and annotations; Design and implement tools, tests, metrics, and dashboards to accelerate model training development cycles; Setup and maintain monitoring, metrics & reporting systems for fine-grained observability; Characterize complex problems related to scalability, reliability, performance, and security; Evangelize best practices in Software development and Software development lifecycle.

Seniority

Lead, hands-on IC with architectural influence

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