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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
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 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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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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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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Machine Learning Engineer - Distributed ML Systems
San Francisco or Melbourne
RemoteFull Time
Pluralis Research
Pluralis Research: Decentralized protocol for collaborative and open-source AI model training.
5+ YOE5+ years in distributed systems and large-scale ML training; senior/staff engineer level.
Python, DeepSpeed, Megatron, FSDP, gRPC
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Staff Systems Engineer - Software Systems
Emeryville or Santa Clara
$170k-$247k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Atomic Machines
Atomic Machines: Develops AI-powered robotic platforms for autonomous micro-scale manufacturing.
7+ YOE7+ years building complex software systems; strong software architecture skills; extensive Python experience; familiarity with C++, Rust, or Go; distributed systems, gRPC, REST APIs, IPC, embedded/real-time, robotics integration, and automated testing/CI/CD.
Python, C++, Rust, Go, gRPC, REST APIs, IPC, CI/CD
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Agentic Systems Engineer
San Mateo, California, United States
HybridFull Time
Sol
Sol: AI-native HRIS platform for modern workforce management.
Experience building distributed systems, orchestration/workflow/runtime infrastructure, agent frameworks, governance/auditability, observability, and heavy use of AI tools in development.
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Frontend Engineer — Distributed Systems OS
San Francisco, California, United States
$150k-$200k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Clera
Clera: AI talent agent matching professionals with high-growth startup roles
2+ YOE2+ years software development; experience defining frontend architecture; hands-on Kubernetes; strong APIs/backend experience; background in distributed systems; strong communication and critical thinking.
Kubernetes, Grafana, WebSockets, GitOps
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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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Software Systems Engineer
Bellevue or Austin or Fremont
$144k-$204k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Meta
MetaNASDAQ: META: Develops social networking platforms and virtual reality technologies.
6+ YOEBachelor's degree and 6+ years in systems software for Linux production, large-scale infra, low-level components, distributed systems, and strong documentation.
C, C++, Python, Linux, Kernel modules, Device drivers, Platform management agents, BMC/IPMI/Redfish, Hardware telemetry frameworks, Telemetry and monitoring
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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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