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Lead Software Engineer 2 in United States

2,624 active opportunities · Updated October 2026

Explore current lead software engineer 2 jobs across United States. Filter by work mode, employment type, experience, department, date posted and distance.

Hiring demand

51/100

steady · 561 related jobs

Hiring trend

-78.6%

Job postings compared with the previous 30 days

Remote options

15.7%

Share of matching jobs listed as remote

Typical salary

$177.2K – $177.2K/yr

Based on 31 salary observations

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -13.7%

NVIDIA is looking for a hands-on Solutions Architect Manager to lead a team of GPU, networking & software solution architects and engineers. Do you want to build and lead a group that designs, debugs, and deploys new AI hardware and software technologies into production in customer data centers? As part of the NVIDIA SA organization, you will drive people and technical leadership for end-to-end solutions deployments at some of NVIDIA's most strategic technology customers, while directly contributing to designs and deep-dive debugging and shaping our product roadmap with customer feedback. What you will be doing: Recruit & manage a team of solutions architects, system/network and software engineers focused on large-scale GPU and AI networking deployments. Set priorities, allocate resources, mentor, and ensure high-quality customer delivery across multiple concurrent projects - while remaining directly involved in key technical reviews, design decisions, and critical debug efforts. Provide deep subject-matter expertise in advanced GPU and network systems and serve as the senior technical point of contact for strategic customers. Personally lead and guide complex compute/network configuration and performance debugging, working side-by-side with your team to deliver performant, reliable clusters. Guide your team as they lead network / compute / software architecture discussions, and support server, network, and cluster bring-up, including on-site data center work where needed. Systematically collect and synthesize customer-specific requirements across your portfolio. Partner with GPU/Network Systems Engineering, Product Management, and Sales to influence roadmap priorities and packaging of reference designs and solutions. Demonstrate SME in advanced GPU & network systems and be a trusted technical advisor to NVIDIA's strategic customers. Bring customer-sp

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingDemand 51/100Company trend -88.6%

$177.2K – $208.6K/yr · Jobiba est.

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Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About the Role: Notion’s Data Foundations team builds and operates the batch and streaming infrastructure behind our product features, analytics, search, and AI experiences. We’re looking for a hands-on technical leader to shape the next generation of this platform as Notion serves larger customers, expands globally, and supports more data-intensive products. You’ll identify the highest-leverage problems, set direction, build and develop a high-performing team, and lead multi-quarter initiatives across our data lake, streaming, distributed-compute, governance, and reliability systems. You’ll stay close to critical technical decisions while creating clear ownership, growing engineers and technical leaders, and helping the team execute as one—partnering closely with Data Engineering, Data Product, Search, AI, Infrastructure, and Security. This role can be based in either San Francisco or New York City. We work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (our Anchor Days) because we do our best thinking and building together in person. We’re looking for someone who’s excited to work alongside the team during those days. What You

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingTop 10% payDemand 51/100Company trend -88.6%

From $299K/yr

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Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About the Role We’re rolling out Go support at production scale at Notion, and we need an owner who can make it durable. You’ll lead the work to turn Go into a fully supported, well-operated platform: reliable and scalable service patterns, paved paths for our tooling stack, and the guardrails that make building in Go feel fast and safe. This role matters because our next wave of AI and agent-driven products will require backend services where Node won’t always be the right fit, and the platform decisions we make now will compound for years. While Go is the core focus, this role sits within Developer Experience and will regularly tackle other high-leverage engineering productivity challenges, developer experience ranging from AI-assisted development workflows and remote agent environments to CI performance, deployments, and reliability tooling. This role can be based in either San Francisco or New York City. We work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (our Anchor Days) because we do our best thinking and building together in person. We’re looking for someone who’s excited to work alongside the team during those days.

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📍 San Francisco, CA, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingAbove median payDemand 51/100Company trend -86.4%

From $177.2K/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of the backend systems powering Pinterest's AI-driven product experiences — Pinterest Assistant, visual editing and content creation tools and future LLM-based products. You'll design and ship backend systems while architecting the broader platform strategy that enables these experiences to scale across surfaces and teams. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll move between deep technical execution, system-level architecture and cross-team technical leadership. What you'll do: Define the backend and platform architecture for AI-driven product experiences — visual-chat, AI image generation and editing, and agentic or LLM-based products — partnering with Engineering, Product, ML and UX leaders to shape the technical vision and roadmap. Architect end-to-end systems

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedDemand 51/100Company trend -100%

$177.2K – $208.6K/yr · Jobiba est.

What you’ll do Act as the technical lead for large parts of the scanner platform: system architecture, codebase structure, and long-term maintainability. Own core runtime foundations: distributed control, state management, fault handling, and reliability. Drive engineering rigor: testability, code quality, review standards, performance regression prevention, and release processes. Build robust observability: logs, metrics, traces, and replayable diagnostics (with privacy constraints). Collaborate with hardware and recon/ML teams to define interfaces, data contracts, timing/synchronization, and failure modes. Lead complex refactors (e.g., message passing / RPC boundaries, modularization, concurrency model) without halting forward progress. What we’re looking for Deep software architecture experience for real-world systems: robotics, instrumentation, medical devices, or other complex distributed products. Strong Python and concurrency background (asyncio, multiprocessing, profiling, performance engineering). Track record of shipping systems that are observable, debuggable, and resilient. Strong technical leadership: clarity, pragmatic trade-offs, and mentoring. Useful experience Building but rock-solid systems: clear interfaces (gRPC/protobuf or equivalent), strong state modeling, and failure handling. High-leverage engineering habits on a lean team: good tests, CI, reproducible dev environments, and fast code review. Practical performance + concurrency work in Python (asyncio, profiling, multiprocessing) and comfort debugging distributed behavior. Security-minded device software: safe defaults, encrypted data paths, and disciplined handling of PII/PHI. Operational thinking: remote updates/management, excellent logging, and diagnostics that make real hardware debuggable.

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📍 Massachusetts, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingTop 25% payDemand 51/100Company trend -88.5%

From $234K/yr

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The ML Observability team builds cutting-edge tools to monitor, explain, and improve AI systems in production, particularly those leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI. We provide robust, scalable observability for AI workloads, including drift detection and model evaluation, and behavior tracing, enabling customers to ship AI with confidence. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll lead the development of new features and foundational capabilities within Datadog’s LLM Observability product. You will shape product direction, drive experimentation, and apply your deep understanding of both AI systems and software engineering to solve open-ended problems in the fast-moving AI landscape. Your work will directly impact how our customers monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize LLM-based applications in production. Join us in building the foundational tools that make AI systems observable, understandable, and reliable in the real world. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Drive design and implementation of LLM observability features. Ideate, prototype, and scale new product features to provide insights and drive improvements for generative AI systems Work cross-functionally with other eng teams, product, UX, and applied science to iterate fast and find product-market fit Develop and extend tools for tracing, evaluating, and debugging LLMs Influence architecture decisions and mentor engineers to build resilient, high-performance systems Stay close to customer pain points and use those insights to guide product and engineering priorities Stay current with industry trends and advancements in machine learning and observability, driving innovation within the team Who You Are: You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or r

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingAbove median payDemand 51/100Company trend -88.5%

From $200K/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

We are looking for a talented engineer to lead evaluation of startup acquisition opportunities in the AI, cloud and security space. You will drive product evaluations, prepare and manage technical architecture discussions with target groups in Product and Engineering and provide roadmap suggestions for M&A and investments for Datadog. You will be a key partner to Datadog’s C-level leadership and highly visible at the most senior levels of Datadog. The role is reporting into the Senior Director of Product Strategy and falls within the Product organization. We are looking for an innovative and strategic thinker who is passionate about the latest tech being developed by startups in the cloud, AI and security space. The ideal candidate enjoys researching and evaluating new technologies, works effectively with cross-functional teams, and communicates opinions concisely to our leadership team. Broad understanding of relevant Cloud Technologies and deep understanding of the full coverage of Datadogs current offerings is necessary. The Corporate Development team is small and values authentic, strong-willed individuals who think creatively and proactively. This role leads technical due diligence from a product and architecture perspective across our acquisition pipeline. You'll scope and stand up proof-of-concept and sandbox environments to stress-test candidate products, then give an honest, unvarnished view of their quality and depth - the kind of assessment that holds up regardless of deal momentum. You'll assess technical architecture, flag the risks and open questions that matter most early, and turn that into a clear post-acquisition integration path. Working closely with engineering, you'll keep the evaluation focused on what's actually decision-relevant, then translate the findings into strategic recommendations for leadership and help carry the integration through by partnering with the right people on the other side. What You’l

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingAbove median payDemand 51/100Company trend -88.5%

From $200K/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

We are looking for a talented engineer to lead evaluation of startup acquisition opportunities in the AI, cloud and security space. You will drive product evaluations, prepare and manage technical architecture discussions with target groups in Product and Engineering and provide roadmap suggestions for M&A and investments for Datadog. You will be a key partner to Datadog’s C-level leadership and highly visible at the most senior levels of Datadog. The role is reporting into the Senior Director of Product Strategy and falls within the Product organization. We are looking for an innovative and strategic thinker who is passionate about the latest tech being developed by startups in the cloud, AI and security space. The ideal candidate enjoys researching and evaluating new technologies, works effectively with cross-functional teams, and communicates opinions concisely to our leadership team. Broad understanding of relevant Cloud Technologies and deep understanding of the full coverage of Datadogs current offerings is necessary. The Corporate Development team is small and values authentic, strong-willed individuals who think creatively and proactively. This role leads technical due diligence from a product and architecture perspective across our acquisition pipeline. You'll scope and stand up proof-of-concept and sandbox environments to stress-test candidate products, then give an honest, unvarnished view of their quality and depth - the kind of assessment that holds up regardless of deal momentum. You'll assess technical architecture, flag the risks and open questions that matter most early, and turn that into a clear post-acquisition integration path. Working closely with engineering, you'll keep the evaluation focused on what's actually decision-relevant, then translate the findings into strategic recommendations for leadership and help carry the integration through by partnering with the right people on the other side. What You’l

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -100%

As an Engineering Manager on Coder’s Core Workspaces team, you’ll lead engineers building and evolving the systems behind our agentic development experience. You’ll help make agents more capable, reliable, and useful across real development environments. You’ll guide technical direction while growing the team and keeping execution sharp. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Product, and Design across the agent harness, integrations, and developer workflows. What you’ll do here Lead and grow a team within our Workspaces organization. Set technical direction across the agent harness, integrations, and workflows. Stay close to the code and contribute to architecture and implementation decisions. Evolve agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, and long-running workflows. Extend our provider-agnostic architecture as models and capabilities change. Partner with Product and Design to turn agent capabilities into useful developer experiences. Improve reliability, performance, and operability across agentic systems. Coach engineers, raise the technical bar, and create clarity around priorities and tradeoffs. What we’re looking for Experience managing and growing software engineering teams. Strong hands-on engineering experience with React and TypeScript . Experience with Go . Hands-on experience building systems around LLMs and agentic workflows. Experience with model APIs, tool calling, context management, or agent loops. Strong distributed systems knowledge. Working knowledge of AWS . Strong technical judgment and comfort working through ambiguity. A track record of helping engineers grow while maintaining a high execution bar. Bonus tacos if you have Experience building coding agents, developer tools, or cloud development environments. Experience with MCP , agent tools, or multi-agent systems. Experience with remote execution, sandboxing, or isolated compute. Experience building abstractions across multiple model providers. Deep experience with AWS, Kube

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📍 Hartford, Hartford, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +340.2%

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary The Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead (AI & Automation) will provide technical leadership for the design, development, modernization, and support of critical applications supporting Prior Authorization Operations (PAOps) under PBM line of business. This role will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable, cloud-native solutions that enable intelligent workflow automation, AI-driven decisioning, document processing, and business process optimization. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with strong software engineering and cloud architecture expertise, coupled with practical experience implementing Generative AI, Agentic AI, and Large Language Model (LLM) solutions in production environments. This individual will collaborate closely with Data Engineering, Data Science, Product, and Business teams to deliver highly available, secure, and scalable applications while driving innovation through AI-powered solutions. Key areas of focus include: Application architecture, development, and production support Cloud-native engineering and platform modernization Microservices and distributed systems AI/GenAI, Agentic AI, and LLM-based solutions Event-driven and streaming architectures Engineering best practices, mentoring, and technical leadership R

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📍 Hazelwood, Macau S.a.r., United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -10.8%

Senior Software Engineer - Vehicle Health Management Company: The Boeing Company The Boeing Company is looking for Senior Software Engineer – Vehicle Health Management to join our Government Vehicle Health Management Systems (GHVMS) software team in Hazelwood, MO . This position in the Boeing Global Services (BGS) organization will primarily support Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Air Dominance programs. The Senior Project Engineer will lead the full lifecycle of embedded software development integrated within specialized devices and systems, ensuring compliance with industry, customer, safety, and regulatory standards. This role directs the translation of complex customer requirements into effective software designs, overseeing code reviews, system integration, and improving software efficiency and stability on specialized hardware. Serving as a technical authority, the engineer guides testing, debugging, and the adoption of emerging technologies, tools, and regulatory changes to advance product performance. Additionally, the position leads the evaluation and coordination of internal and supplier teams, ensuring adherence to project plans and quality standards while providing strategic oversight of embedded software project management activities. In GVHMS, we develop software that enables maintainers to keep military aircraft mission-ready and safe. As a software engineer on our team, you will create solutions that monitor and predict the health of aircraft throughout their lifecycle. Your solutions will be used to enable smarter maintenance decisions, automate processes, and reduce costs. You will also have the opportunity to develop with emerging technologies, such as AI, to advance our software capabilities and drive the future of predictive

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -95.5%

$190.4K – $285.6K/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. What you’ll do Responsibilities Lead the technical design and architecture of major platform initiatives, author design documents and build consensus across engineering teams. Define technical roadmaps for complex, multi-quarter projects that span multiple teams. Make critical architectural decisions for company documentation infrastructure, balancing scalability, reliability, and developer experience. Evaluate and set direction for integrating emerging technologies, including AI/LLM capabilities, into company documentation platforms and authoring tools. Establish and evolve engineering standards, best practices and technical guidelines for the team and broader organization. Partner with engineering teams across the company to understand documentation needs and design integrated solutions. Design, build and maintain scalable, reliable and performant services and systems. Contribute high-quality code across the full stack and navigate codebases with different languages and tools. Debug and resolve complex production issues and improve system reliability. Take ownership of system health and incident response. Who you are Minimum requirements Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related field, plus four (4) years of experience in Software Engineering. Must have four (4) years of experience in each of the following: - Working in a full stack environment with a foc

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
✓ Quality checkedDemand 51/100Company trend -13.7%

$177.2K – $208.6K/yr · Jobiba est.

We’re looking for a technical architecture expert with hands-on development experience to define the architecture of the Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods Platform and collaborate with engineering to build the platform. This is a technical engineering role and requires familiarity with NVIDIA’s GPU acceleration libraries, experience in Retail, CPG, logistics, or marketplaces, and knowledge of enterprise AI architectures will make you an ideal candidate. Join us and take the lead in building the retail platform and help us develop the future of AI in retail! Your mission is to leverage NVIDIA’s existing retail and supply chain blueprints, along with proven workflows and best practices codified through customers and ISV engagements, to define the architecture and build the Retail & CPG platform. You will be responsible for architecting and collaborating with engineering teams across NVIDIA, to build the platform. Built on NVIDIA’s full stack—including Agentic AI, Physical AI, and accelerated computing—this platform will power our three strategic pillars: digital commerce, supply chain, and intelligent stores. What you'll be doing: You will work with Retail & CPG product management, business development, and developer relations teams to harness their deep expertise in supply chain and retail to architect and build a platform that makes it easier for our ecosystem and customers to build AI solutions at scale. The platform will use our NVIDIA Nemo microservices and Nemotron open-source models, with initial priority on Agentic AI for supply chain, digital commerce and employee productivity. This role will initially be an individual contributor with developer experience building AI agents and will collaborate with a strong technical retail and supply chain team, as well as horizontal engineering team(s). Define product, technical vision and architecture Develop platform s

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📍 United States· Remote
✓ Quality checkedDemand 51/100Company trend +340.2%

$177.2K – $208.6K/yr · Jobiba est.

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary CVS Health is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale Generative AI solutions that power next-generation healthcare experiences. This role goes beyond hands-on coding—you will define technical strategy, establish architectural standards, and guide multiple teams in building secure, scalable, and cost-effective AI platforms across AWS (Bedrock) and Google Cloud (Vertex AI API). You will partner with product, security, compliance, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure solutions meet business objectives, regulatory requirements, and performance goals. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with leadership skills—capable of influencing cross-org architecture decisions, mentoring engineering teams, and driving responsible AI practices in production. Key Responsibilities Lead end-to-end platform delivery of highly scalable, secure AI services and applications leveraging AWS Bedrock (Foundation Models, Knowledge Bases, Agents, Guardrails) and Google Cloud Vertex AI (Gemini via Vertex AI API, Agent Builder, Vector Search, Search & Grounding) Architect and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, integrating proprietary data from sources like Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage/BigQuery, and using Bedrock Knowledge Bases and/or Vertex AI Search & Groundi

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