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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
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
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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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
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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
3w
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Systems Engineer II
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$85k-$90k/yr RemoteFull Time
7+ YOE7+ years engineering experience in large distributed server environments; bachelor’s degree or equivalent; experience with automation, CI/CD, networking, and large-scale upgrades; strong communication and documentation skills.
Powershell, Python, JavaScript, NodeJs, Nginx, Apache, bind, iptables, Git, GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, Travis, TeamCity, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Jinja, OpenStack, GCP, Azure
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 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
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 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
1w
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(Senior) Software Engineer for Distributed Systems (Cupertino, CA, US)
Cupertino, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems, proficiency with Linux and Python/Ruby/Bash, strong system architecture and cloud platform knowledge.
Linux, Python, Ruby, Bash, Hadoop, HDFS, Spark
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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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ML Systems Integration Engineer
Sunnyvale or Toronto
OnsiteFull Time
BS/MS in CS/CE/EE or related, strong Python and/or C++, Linux and OS fundamentals, excellent debugging, analytical and communication skills; experience with distributed systems, telemetry, and hardware-adjacent software preferred.
Python, C++, Linux
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