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Founding Backend / Infra Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$300k/yr On-SiteFull Time
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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Staff Distributed Systems Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$188k-$246k/yr OnsiteFull Time
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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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
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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Sr Software Development Engineer - Distributed Systems
Pleasanton, California, United States
$190k-$285k/yr HybridFull Time
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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Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems - NIM Factory
Santa Clara or California or Texas or New York
$168k-$322k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years building distributed microservices, cloud and container systems; experience with Docker, K8s, Helm, Prometheus; BS/MS in CS or equivalent; mentorship and cross-team collaboration skills.
Docker, K8s, Cloud Endpoints, Helm, Prometheus, Temporal, Kafka, Redis, CI/CD
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Distinguished Technologist, Distributed Systems & Agentic Query Optimization
San Jose or Houston or Durham or Andover
$170k-$413k/yr HybridFull Time
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 Systems
San Jose or Austin
$131k-$245k/yr HybridFull Time
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
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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
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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Staff Systems Engineer - Software Systems
Emeryville or Santa Clara
$170k-$247k/yr OnsiteFull Time
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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Software Systems Engineer
Bellevue or Austin or Fremont
$144k-$204k/yr OnsiteFull Time
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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Software Engineer II (Distributed / Scalable Systems)
Milpitas, California, United States
$136k-$232k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOEDevelop production software for distributed systems; OO design; experience in C#, Java, or Python; databases; Docker/Kubernetes; multi-threaded/distributed systems; Bachelor's degree with experience.
Docker, Kubernetes, C#, Java, Python, SQL, NoSQL, Git
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System Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Santa Clara, California, United States
$152k-$288k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOEB.S. in CS/EE or equivalent experience; 5+ years developing and operating production software in Go and/or Python; strong Linux fundamentals; distributed-systems expertise; experience with shared compute clusters and batch schedulers.
Go, Python, Linux, Kubernetes, NFS, IBM LSF, Perl
2w
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Systems Design/Architecture Engineer
Seattle or San Jose
$149k-$293k/yr OnsiteFull Time
15+ YOE15+ years in systems development or architecture (10+ in distributed computing); proficiency across IAM, cryptography, network/cloud/application security; threat modeling experience; strong communication; bachelor\u0002s degree or equivalent experience.
AWS, Azure, GCP
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Distinguished Technologist, Distributed Systems & Agentic Query Optimization
San Jose or Houston or Durham or Andover
$170k-$413k/yr HybridFull Time
15+ YOE15+ years engineering and architectural leadership experience building large distributed systems, cloud-native architecture knowledge across public clouds, experience with distributed query engines, analytics, and strong technical communication.
Spark, Kafka, Parquet, Go, Java, BigQuery, AWS, GCP, Azure
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Distinguished Technologist, Distributed Systems & Agentic Query Optimization
San Jose or Houston or Durham or Andover
$170k-$413k/yr HybridFull Time
15+ YOE15+ years engineering and architectural leadership experience building and operating large distributed systems and cloud platform services; strong data engineering, distributed query, cloud-native, and AI-first prototyping skills.
Spark, Kafka, Parquet, Go, Java, BigQuery, AWS, GCP, Azure
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Staff Software Engineer - Rust and Distributed Systems (Bay Area, hybrid)
Santa Clara, California, United States
HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years engineering experience with backend and distributed systems; strong Rust or systems-language skills; microservices, Kubernetes, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), CI/CD, Linux, SQL/NoSQL, security/confidential computing experience; mentoring and architecture leadership.
Rust, C/C++, Go, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, CI/CD, Linux, SQL, NoSQL, Intel SGX, AMD SEV, Nitro Enclaves, Runtime Encryption
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ML Systems Research Engineer, RL / Inference / Evaluation
Santa Clara, California, United States
$179k-$306k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Build RL, inference, and evaluation infrastructure for ML systems; strong Python and ML framework experience; distributed systems and experiment management; BS in CS/CE/EE/ML or equivalent.
Python, PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, Kubernetes, Ray, Slurm, ROCm/HIP, CUDA
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Senior Software Engineer - Systems
Santa Clara, California, United States
$150k-$400k/yr OnsiteFull Time
3+ YOE3+ years building and operating backend systems; distributed systems fundamentals; experience with data pipelines; proficiency in a systems language; cloud, container, CI/CD experience.
Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Go, Rust, Java, C++, Python, AWS, GCP, K8s, CI/CD, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP, A2A
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Senior Software Development Engineer - Distributed KV Caching and Storage Systems
San Jose, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
3+ YOEBS in CS or equivalent, strong coding in C/C++/Java/Go/Python/Rust on Linux, solid distributed systems and storage fundamentals, debugging and performance analysis, experience operating large-scale services.
C, C++, Java, Go, Python, Rust, Linux, Redis, Tair, MemoryDB, RocksDB, pika, TiDB, RDMA, CXL, ZNS SSD, io_uring
2mo
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Senior Lead Software Engineer, Back-End Distributed Systems (AWS, Go, Kubernetes, MCP, Lua, Python)
Cambridge or McLean or New York or Plano or San Jose
OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOE6+ yrs software engineering; 1+ yr cloud (AWS); BS; backend distributed systems exp; Go, Lua, Python, AWS, Kubernetes.
AWS, Kubernetes, Go, Lua, Python, JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, SQL, HTML/CSS, Docker, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL
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Principal EPC Engineer - Power & Energy Systems Architect
Odessa or Pleasanton
HybridFull Time
10+ YOEBS in Electrical Engineering required; PE strongly preferred or ability to obtain. 10+ years EPC power-systems experience including HV/MV distribution, on-site generation/microgrids, BESS integration, and familiarity with NEC/IEEE/NERC/ERCOT.
ETAP, SKM, PSS/E, SCADA, EMS
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