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Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$163k-$214k/yr OnsiteFull Time
IonQ
IonQNYSE: IONQ: Develops and sells trapped-ion quantum computers and cloud services.
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
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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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Engineer, Supercomputing & Distributed Systems
San Francisco, California, United States
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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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Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco or New York City or Seattle or Ann Arbor or United States or Canada
$151k-$206k/yr RemoteFull Time
Censys
Censys: Maps the internet to discover and manage security risks.
5+ YOE5+ years building distributed systems, strong Go and cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP), familiarity with messaging, databases, scalability and reliability concepts.
Go, AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, BigTable, Cloud Spanner, HBase, Cassandra, gRPC, REST, Protobuf, MessagePack, Kubernetes
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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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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
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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 Francisco or Alameda County or Contra Costa County or Marin County or Napa County or San Mateo County or Santa Clara County or Solano County or Sonoma County
$160k-$180k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Discord
Discord: A platform providing voice, video, and text communication services.
2+ YOE2+ years building backend systems, experience with distributed systems, operating/maintaining critical tier 0 services, knowledge of monitoring and alerting, familiarity with open source and cloud environments.
Elixir, GCP, AWS, Salt, Terraform, k8s
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Systems Engineer
California or Oregon or Washington
OnsiteFull Time
VAST Data
VAST Data: Enterprise AI infrastructure and unified data platform.
5+ YOE5+ years supporting enterprise storage sales; expertise in storage architectures, distributed storage, file systems, virtualization, high-performance networking, and security; customer-facing presentations and technical leadership.
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Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems
Cupertino, California, United States
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Apple
AppleNASDAQ: AAPL: Designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and online services.
Building infrastructure and tools to improve engineer productivity and streamline software creation, build, and distribution.
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(Senior) Quality Specialist for Distributed Systems (Riverside, CA, US)
Riverside, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
SAP
SAPFrankfurt Stock Exchange: SAP: Developer of enterprise business software and cloud applications.
Experience with distributed systems, system administration on Linux, proficiency in two of Java/C++/Python, BS/MS in CS or Electrical Engineering, strong architecture and cloud platform knowledge.
Linux, Java, C++, Python, Hadoop, HDFS, Spark
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