5,965 distributed systems engineer jobs at 1,874 companies in United States

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Founding Backend / Infra Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$300k/yr On-SiteFull Time
HiringCafe
HiringCafe: Building a 100× better job search engine to take on Indeed and LinkedIn.
Own the crawlers, pipelines, and infrastructure powering a real-time job search engine. Strong Node.js and Python fundamentals; bonus points for security and reverse-engineering chops.
Node.js, Python, Elasticsearch, Redis
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Distributed Systems Engineer
United States
$120k-$250k/yr RemoteFull Time
LiveKit
LiveKit: Infrastructure for real-time voice and video AI applications.
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
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Senior Engineer – Distributed Systems
United States
HybridFull Time
Thenvoi
Thenvoi: Agentic mesh platform for AI agent communication and collaboration.
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
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Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco or New York City or Austin or Seattle
$175k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Fluidstack
Fluidstack: Provides high-performance cloud GPU infrastructure for AI development.
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
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Staff Distributed Systems Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$188k-$246k/yr OnsiteFull Time
IonQ
IonQNYSE: IONQ: Develops and sells trapped-ion quantum computers and cloud services.
8+ YOE8+ years backend experience; production Go and/or Rust; distributed systems, event streaming, time-series storage, Kubernetes/Docker, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure); observability and operational ownership; on-call experience.
Go, Rust, gNMI, NETCONF, SNMP, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Kafka, Kinesis, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, SQL
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Engineer, Supercomputing & Distributed Systems
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Krea
Krea: Develops generative AI tools for image and video creation.
Design and operate AI infrastructure; distributed systems; Python, Kubernetes; data tools; large-scale GPU clusters.
Python, Kubernetes, Torch, PyArrow, DuckDB, Arrow, SQL, Pandas, NumPy, PyTorch, NCCL, InfiniBand
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Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Decisioning & Optimization
New York or Los Angeles or Los Gatos or Seattle
$499k-$900k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Netflix
NetflixNASDAQ: NFLX: Global video streaming and media production service.
10+ YOE10+ years distributed systems, 3+ years ads domain; ML model serving; backend systems; architectural leadership; production deployment.
Distributed systems, ML model serving, Ad tech systems, APIs, infrastructure
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Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Decisioning & Optimization
New York City or Seattle or Los Angeles or Los Gatos
$499k-$900k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Netflix
NetflixNASDAQ: NFLX: Provider of global streaming entertainment and video content.
10+ YOE10+ years building large-scale distributed systems (3+ years in ads); expertise in ML model serving with sub-20ms P99, ad serving/bidding/pacing systems, API and platform design, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration.
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Distributed Systems Engineer SMTS/LMTS
New York City or San Francisco
$149k-$224k/yr HybridFull Time
Salesforce
SalesforceNYSE: CRM: Sells cloud-based customer relationship management and business software solutions.
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
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Distributed Systems Engineer — Full Time
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Dedalus Labs
Dedalus Labs: Infrastructure for building and deploying AI agent applications.
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
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Distributed Systems Engineer, Data & Inference Platform
San Francisco or Fremont or Palo Alto or Berkeley or Sunnyvale or Mountain View or San Jose or Oakland or Redwood City
HybridFull Time
Adaption
Adaption: Develops efficient AI systems that adapt in real-time.
5+ YOE5+ years building and operating distributed systems; experience with Ray/Spark/Flink/Beam/Dask; Python and at least one systems language; GPU/accelerator stack; Kubernetes; incident ownership.
Python, Go, Rust, C++, CUDA, NCCL, Ray, Spark, Flink, Beam, Dask, Kubernetes, TensorRT-LLM, Iceberg, Delta, Hudi
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Distributed Systems Engineer - Data Platform - Logs and Audit Logs
Austin or San Francisco
OnsiteFull Time
Cloudflare
CloudflareNYSE: NET: Provides security and performance services for internet properties.
3+ YOE3+ years software development experience in distributed systems/data pipelines; strong programming skills (Go preferred); experience with observability (Prometheus, Grafana), SQL, data streaming (Kafka, Flink) and infra tooling; on-call participation.
Go, Prometheus, Grafana, SQL, Kafka, Flink, Splunk, Datadog, Sumo Logic, S3, R2, GCS, SALT, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, GraphQL, Linux
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Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
San Mateo, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Parasail
Parasail: Provides scalable cloud infrastructure for AI model inference.
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)
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Sr Software Development Engineer - Distributed Systems
Pleasanton, California, United States
$190k-$285k/yr HybridFull Time
Workday
WorkdayNASDAQ: WDAY: Provides cloud-based software for financial and human capital management.
8+ YOE8+ years in software engineering or distributed systems, 5+ years production Java, experience with Apache Iceberg, Spark/Trino, multi-cloud (AWS/GCP), strong database and distributed-systems knowledge.
Java, Scala, Python, Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, Trino, Parquet, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana
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Principal Software Engineer, Distributed Systems Engineer - DGX Cloud
Durham or United States
$248k-$397k/yr HybridFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs graphics processing units and artificial intelligence hardware.
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
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Distributed Energy Systems Postdoc
University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University: Public research university providing academic education and research.
Postdoctoral position focusing on distributed energy resources; PhD in engineering; experience with CHP/DER, microgrids, and energy systems; strong communication skills.
DER, CHP, Microgrid, Energy systems, Optimization
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Distributed LLM Inference Engineer
San Francisco or Palo Alto
$170k-$247k/yr HybridFull Time
Anyscale
Anyscale: Cloud platform for scaling distributed machine learning applications.
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
2w
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Distinguished Technologist, Distributed Systems & Agentic Query Optimization
San Jose or Houston or Durham or Andover
$170k-$413k/yr HybridFull Time
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard EnterpriseNYSE: HPE: Provides global edge-to-cloud technology solutions and IT infrastructure services.
15+ YOE15+ years designing and operating large distributed systems and cloud platform services; expertise in distributed query engines, federated data, cloud-native architecture; strong communication and technical leadership skills.
Spark, Kafka, Parquet, Go, Java, BigQuery, AWS, GCP, Azure
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Software Engineer — Distributed Simulation Systems
Emeryville, California, United States
$100k-$400k/yr HybridFull Time
Astera Institute
Astera Institute: Conducts fundamental research in artificial intelligence and longevity science.
Strong C++ systems programming, distributed systems, networking, MuJoCo/3D physics, Linux, concurrency, and performance optimization.
C++, MuJoCo, Python, PyTorch, Linux, Networking, CUDA, GPU, ECS
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Staff ML Systems Engineer, Distributed Systems
Irvine, California, United States
$70k-$200k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Field AI
Field AI: Develops autonomous software brains for robots in unstructured environments.
5+ YOE5+ years in distributed systems/ML platforms; strong Python; experience with Ray/Spark/Dask/Flink; design scalable data pipelines; cross-functional collaboration.
Python, Ray, Spark, Dask, Flink, Kubernetes, DeepSpeed, PyTorch, TensorFlow
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Software Engineer – Distributed Systems
San Jose or Austin
$131k-$245k/yr HybridFull Time
IBM
IBMNew York Stock Exchange: IBM: Global technology providing enterprise software, cloud, and consulting.
6+ YOE6+ years software engineering with 2+ years designing/operating large-scale distributed systems; strong Java/Go/C++ skills; knowledge of consensus, replication, fault tolerance, Kubernetes, observability; Bachelor's preferred.
Java, Go, C++, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes, Iceberg, Delta, Hudi, Kafka, Flink, Pulsar, Trino, etcd, NVLink, PCIe