8,042 distributed systems engineer jobs at 2,196 companies in United States
2mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Distributed Systems Engineer
United States
$120k-$250k/yr RemoteFull Time
Experience designing and delivering distributed systems in production; ownership end-to-end; strong programming fundamentals; familiarity with consensus, coordination, and distributed failure modes; clear communication.
Go, psrpc, gRPC, Raft, NATS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, GitHub
1mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$163k-$214k/yr OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOE6+ years backend engineering with Go or Rust, distributed systems fundamentals, event streaming and time-series experience, cloud-native deployments, observability, SQL, and operational/on-call ownership.
Go, Rust, gNMI, NETCONF, SNMP, REST, gRPC, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Kafka, Kinesis, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, SQL
2mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Senior Engineer – Distributed Systems
United States
HybridFull Time
7+ YOE7+ years building distributed systems (Go, Rust, or C++); deep networking and multiprocessing fundamentals; experience with real-time messaging; open to learning Elixir and Phoenix LiveView.
Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, Go, Rust, C++, TCP, UDP
1mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco or New York City or Austin or Seattle
$175k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Experienced engineer building observability, control planes, and API surfaces for large fleets; production service ownership, pager/incident experience, fluent with AI tooling and distributed systems.
LLM APIs, MCP servers, Claude Code, Cursor, Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, Temporal, Cadence, BMC/Redfish, Go, Python, Postgres, Kubernetes, ZTP, DHCP, DNS
1mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Distributed Systems Engineer, IoT
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Experience scaling MQTT-based IoT systems from 0-1, making architecture decisions, and building cloud platforms; generalist software engineering experience required.
MQTT
6d
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
United States or Canada or San Francisco or New York City or Seattle or Ann Arbor
$151k-$191k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOERequires 5+ years of software engineering experience building distributed systems, object-oriented programming in Go, cloud provider experience, and familiarity with message queues, databases, AI, and maintainable code.
Go, AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, BigTable, Cloud Spanner, HBase, Cassandra, gRPC, REST, Protobuf, MessagePack, Kubernetes, AI
1w
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
HybridFull Time
7+ YOERequires 7+ years of software engineering experience, distributed computing leadership, cloud architecture, resilient event-driven systems, scalable storage, observability, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Python, and SQL.
Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, GitHub Actions, GitHub, GCP, AWS, Python, SQL
3mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Ad Eventing
Los Gatos or New York
$499k-$900k/yr OnsiteFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years building distributed systems, 3+ years in ads domain, deep experience with high-throughput event ingestion and stream processing (Kafka/Flink/Spark Streaming), event deduplication/validation, schema design, and technical leadership.
Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, MOAT, IAS, DoubleVerify, Nielsen, VAST, VMAP, SSAI
2mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Distributed Systems Engineer SMTS/LMTS
New York City or San Francisco
$149k-$224k/yr HybridFull Time
Design and deliver scalable, reliable, secure backend distributed systems within the Security ecosystem; hands-on engineering, cross-functional collaboration, and end-to-end ownership with an AI-first mindset.
Salesforce Core, Data Cloud, Tableau Next, ATF, Agentforce
3mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Distributed Systems Engineer — Full Time
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Strong systems programming (Rust preferred); graduate-level knowledge of distributed/OS concepts; Kubernetes and cloud infra experience; hands-on with virtualization and storage; production-scale systems experience.
Rust, Go, C/C++, Kubernetes, Cloud Infrastructure, Linux, Virtualization, Kernel, Low-level systems
6d
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Staff/Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
New York City, New York, United States
$185k-$235k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Expertise in distributed execution, scheduling, storage, reliability, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, security, and performance optimization for mission-critical systems.
Kafka, Redpanda, Pulsar, SQS, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Temporal, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Typesense, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Microsoft
1mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOE6+ years product/program management experience building cloud-scale solutions; deep familiarity with the Terraform SDK; API design leadership; strong written/verbal communication and data/engineering fluency.
Terraform SDK
3mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Distributed Systems Engineer (L4) - Data Platform
United States
$71k-$464k/yr RemoteFull Time
2+ YOE2+ years in distributed systems; RESTful services; scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure; Java or OO languages; multi-threading; BS in Computer Science or related field.
Java, REST, Distributed Systems, Multi-threading
1mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Distributed Systems Architect / Systems Engineering Lead (ES)
Austin, Texas, United States
$104k-$174k/yr OnsiteFull Time
3+ YOEBachelor's in science/applied science/engineering,3+ years architecting distributed/high-availability systems,US citizenship,eligibility for classified access,strong communication and systems design skills.
Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Pulsar, Jira, Structurizr, C++, Python, TCP/IP
2mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
San Mateo, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend/infrastructure experience with Kubernetes and distributed systems; strong skills in Java, Spring Boot, or Golang; experience with cloud-native tech, IaC, and security for AI workloads.
Java, Spring Boot, Golang, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
3w
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Lead Distributed Systems Engineer - Services Special Projects
Cupertino, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Design and build massively scalable, highly available services that power customer experiences.
3w
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Emeryville or Santa Clara
$180k-$230k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years building or debugging hardware, embedded, networked, or similar systems; strong Python and one of C++, Rust, or Go; distributed systems and architecture experience; CI/CD, testing, or observability experience; bachelor's degree or equivalent.
Python, C++, Rust, Go, CI/CD, API, AI, ML
3mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Principal Software Engineer, Distributed Systems Engineer - DGX Cloud
Durham or United States
$248k-$397k/yr HybridFull Time
15+ YOE15+ years software engineering experience with Kubernetes, GPU cluster scheduling, systems programming (Go or Python), BS in relevant field or equivalent, strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
Kubernetes, Go, Python, Slurm, Bright Cluster Manager, DGX Cloud
3mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Distributed LLM Inference Engineer
San Francisco or Palo Alto
$170k-$247k/yr HybridFull Time
Familiarity with running ML inference at large scale with high throughput and low latency; experience with PyTorch; solid understanding of distributed systems.
PyTorch, Ray, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM
1mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (200045410)
United States
OnsiteFull Time
Not provided in posting.
Explore Jobs