What are the responsibilities and job description for the AI-Focused Senior Software Engineer - 26-00444 position at LeadStack Inc.?
Job Description
LeadStack Inc. is an award winning, one of the nation's fastest growing, certified minority owned (MBE) staffing services provider of contingent workforce. As a recognized industry leader in contingent workforce solutions and Certified as a Great Place to Work, we're proud to partner with some of the most admired Fortune 500 brands in the world.
AI-Focused Senior Software Engineer
Location: Palo Alto, CA. Hybrid - 3 days Onsite.
Duration: 9 months
Pay Rates: $70/hr – $84/hr on W2
About the Team
The Enterprise AI team drives internal AI enablement. We evaluate high-impact AI opportunities, build platforms and patterns for easy adoption, and empower engineering teams to work smarter and faster. Operating at the intersection of applied AI, distributed systems, and enterprise operations, we boost efficiency—one AI-powered workflow at a time. Join this high-impact, high-autonomy team collaborating with engineering, product, and operations.
About the Role
Design, build, and operate platform/backend systems at scale. Own core infrastructure—from Kubernetes and cloud-native services to APIs and developer tooling—while partnering with product, AI, and security teams. This hands-on, high-ownership role involves production code, system design, code reviews, and engineering effectiveness.
What You'll Do
- Own end-to-end delivery of major platform initiatives (design to post-launch).
- Deep Kubernetes ownership: clusters, networking, operators, container lifecycle, multi-tenant orchestration.
- Design/optimize distributed services and cloud-native infra on AWS/GCP for scale/reliability/performance.
- Drive excellence: code standards, design reviews, automation, CI/CD.
- Collaborate with Product, AI, Security to align architecture with objectives.
- Mentor on architecture, trade-offs, delivery.
- Align engineering strategy with product roadmap/leadership.
What We're Looking For
- 6 years software engineering (backend/infra focus).
- Strong Python and/or Go (production code).
- Hands-on Kubernetes (build/operate clusters).
- Distributed systems in production.
- AWS/GCP fluency (compute, storage, IAM, networking, managed services).
- IaC (Terraform ) and CI/CD.
- Applied AI: agentic tools (Claude, LiteLLM), AI gateways, agent frameworks; backend integrations.
- System design judgment.
- Strong cross-team communicator.
Nice to Have
- Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
- Multi-cloud/hybrid (AWS, GCP, on-prem).
- API/AI gateways, policy (ABAC, OPA).
- Service mesh/PaaS design.
- Engineering productivity improvements at scale.
know more about current opportunities at LeadStack , please visit us on https://leadstackinc.com/careers/
Should you have any questions, feel free to call me on (513) 3184502 or send an email on waseem.ahmad@leadstackinc.com
Salary : $70 - $84