771 distributed systems engineer jobs at 348 companies in Cotati, CA

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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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Distributed Systems Engineer, IoT
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Orion Sleep
Orion Sleep: Manufacturer of AI-powered smart mattress covers for sleep optimization.
Experience scaling MQTT-based IoT systems from 0-1, making architecture decisions, and building cloud platforms; generalist software engineering experience required.
MQTT
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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 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
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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
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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/Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Emeryville or Santa Clara
$180k-$230k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Atomic Machines
Atomic Machines: Develops AI-powered robotic platforms for autonomous micro-scale manufacturing.
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
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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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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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AI Systems Engineer, Codex Agents
San Francisco, California, United States
$230k-$385k/yr OnsiteFull Time
OpenAI
OpenAI: Develops artificial intelligence models and generative AI software services.
Engineering role building AI systems for Codex agents; experience with distributed systems, inference, and production workloads.
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Senior Product Systems Engineer
Golden or San Francisco or Toulouse
$160k-$210k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Loft Orbital
Loft Orbital: Deploy and operate satellite missions for organizations and governments.
Strong systems engineering background across software and hardware; experience defining architecture, interfaces, and requirements; expertise with distributed systems and APIs; strong communication and documentation skills.
CONOPS, ICDs, OBSW, APIs
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Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch
United States or Seattle or Los Angeles or San Francisco or New York City
$133k-$211k/yr RemoteFull Time
Elastic
ElasticNYSE: ESTC: Software platform for search, security, and observability.
Expertise in distributed systems and consensus algorithms, strong Java/JDK skills, deep algorithms knowledge, experience building/debugging large distributed systems, and managing projects involving multiple engineers.
Java, JDK, Lucene, Netty, Elasticsearch
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ML Systems & Performance Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Engram
Engram: Developing persistent memory layers for enterprise AI systems.
5+ YOE5+ years building training/inference systems; strong engineering skills; experience with ML frameworks, GPUs, distributed systems; bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
PyTorch, JAX, GPUs
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Sr. Systems Engineer, Sales & Marketing
San Francisco or Seattle or United States
$132k-$273k/yr RemoteFull Time
Pinterest
PinterestNYSE: PINS: Visual discovery engine for finding inspiration and creative ideas.
10+ YOE10+ years engineering experience; proficiency in Python and at least one of Java, Node.js, or Javascript; experience building/operating distributed systems, GenAI/ML integrations, Salesforce integrations, and working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS).
Python, Java, Node.js, Javascript, AWS, REST, gRPC, LLM, Cursor, Claude Code, Salesforce, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud
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Sr Systems Engineer (Contract, LATAM)
San Francisco or Buenos Aires or Argentina
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Nexus
Nexus: Develops a zero-knowledge Layer 1 blockchain for verifiable finance.
Experience with systems programming (Rust, C++, or Go), high-performance or distributed systems, profiling and benchmarking, strong English communication, and working on low-latency execution paths.
Rust, C++, Go
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Senior Software Engineer, Engine & Distributed Systems
San Francisco or New York City
$220k-$240k/yr HybridFull Time
StackAI
StackAI: Build and deploy custom AI agents without writing code.
5+ YOE5+ years building backend distributed systems; experience with durable execution/workflow orchestration (Temporal, Cadence, Airflow), strong Python and FastAPI skills, Postgres familiarity, concurrency, fault tolerance, and recovery.
Temporal, Cadence, Airflow, Python, FastAPI, Postgres, PydanticAI, LangGraph
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Systems Reliability Engineer (SRE)
San Francisco or New York City
$150k-$170k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Claryo
Claryo: AI-powered spatial software for optimizing warehouse operations
3+ YOE3+ years SRE/infrastructure experience, strong Linux and networking fundamentals, experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, observability tooling, and debugging distributed systems in production.
Linux, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Azure, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, RTSP, WebRTC
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Software Engineer, Distributed Systems - Infra
San Francisco, California, United States
$180k-$275k/yr HybridFull Time
Gamma
Gamma: AI platform that generates presentations, documents, and websites from text.
3+ YOE3–5+ years backend experience; Node.js or Python; PostgreSQL/Redis; high-traffic systems; product-minded; collaborative; experience with real-time collaboration or AI is a plus.
Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis
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Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Monitoring Service (Distributed Systems)
San Francisco, California, United States
$215k-$260k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Crusoe
Crusoe: Provides energy-efficient cloud infrastructure powered by stranded and renewable energy.
8+ YOE8+ years software development with ownership of production distributed systems; expertise in sharding, replication, streaming, time-series/log systems; Go and Kubernetes familiarity; on-call experience and strong communication.
Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Vector, Go, Kubernetes, CI/CD