1,204 distributed systems engineer jobs at 254 companies in Soquel, 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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Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
San Mateo, California, United States
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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 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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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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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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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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Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems
Cupertino, California, United States
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Apple
AppleNASDAQ: AAPL: Designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and online services.
Building infrastructure and tools to improve engineer productivity and streamline software creation, build, and distribution.
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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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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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Production Systems Engineer, Automation
Menlo Park, California, United States
$144k-$204k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Meta
MetaNASDAQ: META: Develops social networking platforms and virtual reality technologies.
3+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent and 3+ years production systems/infrastructure experience; development in C, C++, or Python on Linux; experience with large-scale hardware infrastructure, distributed systems, monitoring/alerting, troubleshooting, and cross-functional communication.
C, C++, Python, Linux, CI/CD
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Lead Systems Engineer - Traffic Management
Durham or Miami or Palo Alto or Washington
$15k-$23k/yr HybridFull Time
Nubank
NubankNYSE: NU: Digital financial platform offering banking, credit, and investment services.
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
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Rhoda AI
Rhoda AI: Developing generalist robotic intelligence for real-world industrial automation.
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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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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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