895 distributed systems engineer jobs at 368 companies in Wayne, NJ
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Founding Backend / Infra Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$300k/yrOn-SiteFull Time
HiringCafe: Building a 100× better job search engine to take on Indeed and LinkedIn.
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.
San Francisco or New York City or Austin or Seattle
$175k-$300k/yrOnsiteFull Time
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
Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Decisioning & Optimization
New York City or Seattle or Los Angeles or Los Gatos
$499k-$900k/yrOnsiteFull Time
NetflixNASDAQ: NFLX: Provider of global streaming entertainment and video content.
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.
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
Principal Software Engineer: Distributed Systems (Config, Test, & Deployment)
Austin or New York City or San Francisco or Washington
$200k-$288k/yrHybridFull Time
CloudflareNYSE: NET: Provides security and performance services for internet properties.
10+ YOE10+ years software engineering experience, technical leadership across orgs, expertise in distributed systems, strong typed language mastery, API design, experience with LLMs, Kubernetes, RocksDB and large-scale systems.
Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems
New York, New York, United States
$200k-$350k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Clera: AI talent agent matching professionals with high-growth startup roles
4+ YOE4+ years in data systems/backend/platform engineering; proficiency in Haskell and/or TypeScript; experience with distributed and big data systems (Apache Spark, Hadoop); strong algorithms and query optimization skills.
D. E. Shaw Research: Developing custom supercomputers for biomolecular simulation and drug discovery.
Strong Linux fundamentals; experience with large-installation systems administration, HPC, Kubernetes, Python, distributed systems, and excellent communication skills. Candidates at all experience levels considered.
Tower Research Capital: Global quantitative trading firm developing automated algorithmic strategies.
5+ YOE5+ years experience; bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field; proficiency in Bash, Python, or Go; strong HPC and distributed workloads; IaC and Linux; cloud networking and storage; Terraform or similar tools; Slurm/HTCondor; Ray.
Terraform, Bash, Python, Go, Kubernetes, Linux, Slurm, HTCondor, Ray
Fanatics: Global digital sports platform for merchandise, collectibles, and betting.
5+ YOE5+ years in distributed systems; proficient in Java or Kotlin and Spring Boot; Kafka experience; Postgres/Redis; Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS); on-call production reliability.
VAST Data: Enterprise AI infrastructure and unified data platform.
5+ YOE5+ years supporting enterprise storage sales to large IT organizations; expertise in distributed storage architectures, DAS/NAS/SAN, file systems, virtualization, high-performance networking and security; strong presentation and communication skills.
Claryo: AI-powered spatial software for optimizing warehouse operations
3+ YOE3+ years in SRE/infrastructure/distributed systems; strong Linux/networking; production experience; Kubernetes and cloud platforms; observability tools; multi-layer debugging; on-call readiness.
MetaNASDAQ: META: Develops social networking platforms and virtual reality technologies.
8+ YOEBachelor's or equivalent, 8+ years in systems engineering/ML infrastructure, experience with distributed ML training/inference, PyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow, low-level C++/CUDA optimizations, and leading cross-functional ML systems projects.
Engineer, Advanced Distribution Management Systems
Akron or Fairmont or Greensburg or Reading or Morristown
OnsiteFull Time
FirstEnergyNYSE: FE: Provides electric power distribution and transmission services to customers.
2+ YOEABET‑level BS in Electrical/Civil/Mechanical Engineering required; FE preferred; PE acceptable alternative. 2–5+ years engineering experience depending on level. Experience with ADMS/SCADA/NMS and system testing required.
OpenAI: Develops artificial intelligence models and generative AI software services.
5+ YOE5+ years of software engineering experience; building infrastructure or tooling for developers; experience with build systems (Bazel, Buck, Pants, Gradle); scale CI; cross-team collaboration; strong developer experience; distributed systems debugging.
Asepha: AI-native clinical automation platform for pharmacies.
5+ YOE5+ years software engineering experience with backend focus; proficiency in Python or TypeScript; experience with APIs, data stores, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and agentic AI systems.