1,049 distributed systems engineer jobs at 166 companies in Prunedale, CA

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Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$163k-$214k/yr OnsiteFull Time
IonQ
IonQNYSE: IONQ: Develops and sells trapped-ion quantum computers and cloud services.
6+ YOE6+ years backend engineering with Go or Rust, distributed systems fundamentals, event streaming and time-series experience, cloud-native deployments, observability, SQL, and operational/on-call ownership.
Go, Rust, gNMI, NETCONF, SNMP, REST, gRPC, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Kafka, Kinesis, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, SQL
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Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Ad Eventing
Los Gatos or New York
$499k-$900k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Netflix
NetflixNASDAQ: NFLX: Provider of global streaming entertainment and video content.
10+ YOE10+ years building distributed systems, 3+ years in ads domain, deep experience with high-throughput event ingestion and stream processing (Kafka/Flink/Spark Streaming), event deduplication/validation, schema design, and technical leadership.
Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, MOAT, IAS, DoubleVerify, Nielsen, VAST, VMAP, SSAI
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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 4 - Content & Business Products
Los Gatos, California, United States
$250k-$413k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Netflix
NetflixNASDAQ: NFLX: Global video streaming and media production service.
2+ YOE2+ years in distributed systems; proficient in Java or C#; strong knowledge of multithreading, observability; experience with microservices, data modeling, API design; on-call experience; good cross-functional communication.
Java, C#, OO design, Microservices, API design, gRPC, GraphQL, observability
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Lead Distributed Systems Engineer - Services Special Projects
Cupertino, California, United States
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Apple
AppleNASDAQ: AAPL: Designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and online services.
Design and build massively scalable, highly available services that power customer experiences.
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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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Distinguished Technologist, Distributed Systems & Agentic Query Optimization
San Jose or Houston or Durham or Andover
$170k-$413k/yr HybridFull Time
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard EnterpriseNYSE: HPE: Provides global edge-to-cloud technology solutions and IT infrastructure services.
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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System Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Santa Clara, California, United States
$152k-$288k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs graphics processing units and artificial intelligence hardware.
5+ YOEB.S. in CS/EE or equivalent; 5+ years developing and operating production software in Go and/or Python; strong Linux fundamentals; distributed-systems experience; experience with batch schedulers or long-running workflows.
Go, Python, Linux, Kubernetes, NFS, IBM LSF, Perl
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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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Software Engineer II (Distributed / Scalable Systems)
Milpitas, California, United States
$136k-$232k/yr OnsiteFull Time
KLA
KLANASDAQ: KLAC: Provides process control and yield management for semiconductor manufacturing.
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
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs GPU-accelerated computing and artificial intelligence hardware.
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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ML Systems Research Engineer, RL / Inference / Agent Systems
Santa Clara, California, United States
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AMD
AMDNASDAQ: AMD: Designs and manufactures computer processors and graphics technology.
Experienced ML systems engineer with strong Python and ML framework skills, experience in RL/inference systems, distributed experimentation, and GPU/infrastructure workflows; advanced degree preferred.
Python, PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, Kubernetes, Ray, Slurm, ROCm, HIP, CUDA
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Systems Design/Architecture Engineer 5
Seattle or San Jose
$149k-$293k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Adobe
AdobeNASDAQ: ADBE: Provides software for digital media creation and marketing analytics
15+ YOE15+ years systems and architecture experience, 10+ years in distributed computing, expertise in IAM, cryptography, network/cloud/application security, threat modeling, and strong communication; bachelor’s or equivalent.
AWS, Azure, GCP
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(Senior) Software Engineer for Distributed Systems (Cupertino, CA, US)
Cupertino, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
SAP
SAPFrankfurt Stock Exchange: SAP: Developer of enterprise business software and cloud applications.
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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Distinguished Technologist, Distributed Systems & Agentic Query Optimization
San Jose or Houston or Durham or Andover
$170k-$413k/yr HybridFull Time
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard EnterpriseNYSE: HPE: Providing global edge-to-cloud infrastructure and IT solutions for businesses.
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
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard EnterpriseNYSE: HPE: Provides edge-to-cloud IT infrastructure and platform services.
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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Sr. Software Engineer - ML and Distributed Systems, Amazon Personalize
Mountain View, California, United States
$193k-$262k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Amazon
AmazonNASDAQ: AMZN: Global online retail and cloud computing technology provider.
5+ YOE5+ years professional software development, experience scaling distributed systems and ML pipelines, leadership/mentorship experience, proficiency in software lifecycle and system design.
Amazon Personalize, AWS
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Staff Software Engineer - Rust and Distributed Systems (Bay Area, hybrid)
Santa Clara, California, United States
HybridFull Time
Fortanix
Fortanix: Provides confidential computing and data security for multicloud environments.
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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Senior Software Engineer - Systems
Santa Clara, California, United States
$150k-$400k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Boson AI
Boson AI: Develops generative AI and large-scale audio foundation models.
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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Software Engineer Intern (Distributed NoSQL Database Systems) - 2027 Summer
San Jose, California, United States
OnsiteInternship
ByteDance
ByteDance: Developing AI-driven content platforms and mobile applications.
Pursuing undergraduate or master’s in CS/CE or related; knowledge of databases, distributed systems, query processing, multithreading; experience coding in C/C++, Golang, Java, or Python.
C/C++, Golang, Java, Python, Faiss, Milvus, DuckDB, ClickHouse, TiKV, RocksDB, GCP, AWS, Azure