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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
San Francisco or New York City or Austin or Seattle
$175k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Fluidstack
Fluidstack: Provides high-performance cloud GPU infrastructure for AI development.
Experienced engineer building observability, control planes, and API surfaces for large fleets; production service ownership, pager/incident experience, fluent with AI tooling and distributed systems.
LLM APIs, MCP servers, Claude Code, Cursor, Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, Temporal, Cadence, BMC/Redfish, Go, Python, Postgres, Kubernetes, ZTP, DHCP, DNS
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Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco or New York City or Seattle or Ann Arbor or United States or Canada
$151k-$206k/yr RemoteFull Time
Censys
Censys: Maps the internet to discover and manage security risks.
5+ YOE5+ years building distributed systems, strong Go and cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP), familiarity with messaging, databases, scalability and reliability concepts.
Go, AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, BigTable, Cloud Spanner, HBase, Cassandra, gRPC, REST, Protobuf, MessagePack, Kubernetes
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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 SMTS/LMTS
New York City or San Francisco
$149k-$224k/yr HybridFull Time
Salesforce
SalesforceNYSE: CRM: Sells cloud-based customer relationship management and business software solutions.
Design and deliver scalable, reliable, secure backend distributed systems within the Security ecosystem; hands-on engineering, cross-functional collaboration, and end-to-end ownership with an AI-first mindset.
Salesforce Core, Data Cloud, Tableau Next, ATF, Agentforce
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Distributed Systems Engineer — Full Time
San Francisco, California, United States
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Dedalus Labs
Dedalus Labs: Infrastructure for building and deploying AI agent applications.
Strong systems programming (Rust preferred); graduate-level knowledge of distributed/OS concepts; Kubernetes and cloud infra experience; hands-on with virtualization and storage; production-scale systems experience.
Rust, Go, C/C++, Kubernetes, Cloud Infrastructure, Linux, Virtualization, Kernel, Low-level systems
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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
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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 - Data Platform - Logs and Audit Logs
Austin or San Francisco
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Cloudflare
CloudflareNYSE: NET: Provides security and performance services for internet properties.
3+ YOE3+ years software development experience in distributed systems/data pipelines; strong programming skills (Go preferred); experience with observability (Prometheus, Grafana), SQL, data streaming (Kafka, Flink) and infra tooling; on-call participation.
Go, Prometheus, Grafana, SQL, Kafka, Flink, Splunk, Datadog, Sumo Logic, S3, R2, GCS, SALT, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, GraphQL, Linux
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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
OnsiteFull Time
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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AI Systems Engineer, Codex Agents
San Francisco, California, United States
$230k-$385k/yr OnsiteFull Time
OpenAI
OpenAI: Develops artificial intelligence models and generative AI software services.
Engineering role building AI systems for Codex agents; experience with distributed systems, inference, and production workloads.
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Senior Product Systems Engineer
Golden or San Francisco or Toulouse
$160k-$210k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Loft Orbital
Loft Orbital: Deploy and operate satellite missions for organizations and governments.
Strong systems engineering background across software and hardware; experience defining architecture, interfaces, and requirements; expertise with distributed systems and APIs; strong communication and documentation skills.
CONOPS, ICDs, OBSW, APIs
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Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch
United States or Seattle or Los Angeles or San Francisco or New York City
$133k-$211k/yr RemoteFull Time
Elastic
ElasticNYSE: ESTC: Software platform for search, security, and observability.
Expertise in distributed systems and consensus algorithms, strong Java/JDK skills, deep algorithms knowledge, experience building/debugging large distributed systems, and managing projects involving multiple engineers.
Java, JDK, Lucene, Netty, Elasticsearch
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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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