6,182 distributed systems software engineer jobs at 1,664 companies in United States
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GovCloud Distributed Systems Software Engineer
Herndon or Bellevue or San Francisco or New York City
$149k-$224k/yrHybridFull Time
SalesforceNYSE: CRM: The #1 AI CRM driving customer success together.
5+ YOERelated technical degree and 5+ years of backend software development. Requires Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby; distributed systems, critical services, Agile, TDD, AI development tools, and advanced prompt engineering experience.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude, OpenAI API, Spinnaker, Zookeeper, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos, Java, Golang, Python, Ruby, PostgreSQL, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex
Parasail: AI inference cloud providing production-ready open-model services for AI-native startups.
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)
San Francisco or New York City or Austin or Seattle
$175k-$300k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Fluidstack: Building and operating civilization-scale data center infrastructure for AI.
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
United States or Canada or San Francisco or New York City or Seattle or Ann Arbor
$151k-$191k/yrRemoteFull Time
Censys: Internet intelligence and cybersecurity software providing threat hunting and attack-surface management to governments and enterprises.
5+ YOERequires 5+ years of software engineering experience building distributed systems, object-oriented programming in Go, cloud provider experience, and familiarity with message queues, databases, AI, and maintainable code.
Go, AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, BigTable, Cloud Spanner, HBase, Cassandra, gRPC, REST, Protobuf, MessagePack, Kubernetes, AI
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Emeryville or Santa Clara
$180k-$230k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Fab2: Fab2 is a privately held semiconductor manufacturer building fabs, chipmaking tools, components, and design software.
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.
Orion Sleep: Consumer sleep-technology selling smart mattress covers with biometric tracking and AI-powered temperature control.
Experience scaling MQTT-based IoT systems from 0-1, making architecture decisions, and building cloud platforms; generalist software engineering experience required.
Principal Software Engineer, Distributed Systems Engineer - DGX Cloud
Durham or United States
$248k-$397k/yrHybridFull Time
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Computing platform for AI and accelerated graphics.
15+ YOE15+ years software engineering experience with Kubernetes, GPU cluster scheduling, systems programming (Go or Python), BS in relevant field or equivalent, strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
IonQNYSE: IONQ: Public quantum technology delivering trapped-ion computing, networking, sensing, and security systems to enterprise and government customers.
12+ YOE12+ years backend engineering experience, production Go and/or Rust proficiency, distributed systems and data infrastructure experience (streaming, time-series storage), cloud-native deployment, observability, and on-call ownership.
Dedalus Labs: AI infrastructure startup providing persistent Linux virtual machines for developers building AI agents.
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.
NetflixNASDAQ: NFLX: Global subscription-based streaming entertainment service and content producer.
Requires large-scale infrastructure experience, hands-on Kubernetes, distributed systems, backend services, AWS or cloud, Linux environments, strong communication and problem-solving skills, and Golang, Java, or Python experience.
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/yrOnsiteFull Time
Discord: Private American gaming communications platform serving players and communities through voice, video, and text chat.
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.
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Computing platform for AI and accelerated graphics.
5+ YOEBachelor's degree in computer science or electrical engineering, or equivalent experience; 5+ years developing and operating production software in Go and/or Python; strong Linux and distributed-systems expertise.
NetflixNASDAQ: NFLX: Global subscription-based streaming entertainment service and content producer.
2+ YOE2+ years in distributed systems; RESTful services; scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure; Java or OO languages; multi-threading; BS in Computer Science or related field.
RubrikNYSE: RBRK: Public cybersecurity and AI operations software helping organizations protect, monitor, and recover data, identities, and workloads.
3+ YOEBachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent; 3+ years in distributed file systems; distributed systems, scalable backend development, and C++ coding experience required.
Visionist: Employee-owned defense contractor providing software, analytics, and UX services for national-security missions.
8+ YOE8 years software development; experience with JavaScript/TypeScript/Python; distributed systems and cloud; AWS; DevOps; IaC; CI/CD; high-side development environments; TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, AWS, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD