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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 6 - Decisioning & Optimization
New York or Los Angeles or Los Gatos or Seattle
$499k-$900k/yr OnsiteFull Time
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
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.
2mo
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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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Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
San Mateo, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
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
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
3mo
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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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Distributed LLM Inference Engineer
San Francisco or Palo Alto
$170k-$247k/yr HybridFull Time
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
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
4w
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Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems
Cupertino, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Building infrastructure and tools to improve engineer productivity and streamline software creation, build, and distribution.
2w
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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
1mo
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Agentic Systems Engineer
San Mateo, California, United States
HybridFull Time
Experience building distributed systems, orchestration/workflow/runtime infrastructure, agent frameworks, governance/auditability, observability, and heavy use of AI tools in development.
3w
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Systems Integration Engineer
Austin or Menlo Park
$144k-$204k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOEBS in engineering or commensurate experience, 5+ years in system administration/engineering or hardware validation for compute/storage/networking, test-plan development, coding in Python/PHP/C++/Java, and cross-functional collaboration with distributed teams.
Python, PHP, C++, Java, git, IPMI, serial console, Linux
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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
2mo
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ML Systems Engineer
Menlo Park, California, United States
$300k-$400k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Experience with large-scale ML systems, GPU clusters, distributed training, and performance profiling; proficiency in RDMA, CUDA, and scheduling across Ray, Slurm, or Kubernetes.
CUDA, RDMA, NVLink, Ray, Slurm, Kubernetes, SGLang, Megatron-LM, vLLM
2mo
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Lead Systems Engineer - Traffic Management
Durham or Miami or Palo Alto or Washington
$15k-$23k/yr HybridFull Time
Experience operating large-scale cloud distributed systems, Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd/Envoy), AWS networking, IaC with Pulumi or Terraform, strong reliability/observability and AI-assisted workflows.
Kubernetes, Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, Finagle, AWS, ALB, NLB, VPC, Route 53, IAM, Pulumi, Terraform
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Research Scientist / Engineer - Training Systems
Palo Alto, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Proven experience improving large-scale distributed training performance; strong ML stack knowledge; expertise in training systems for multimodal data; ability to optimize compute, memory, and communication.
PyTorch, JAX, CUDA, Triton
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