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/yr HybridFull Time
Salesforce
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
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Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
San Mateo, California, United States
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Parasail
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)
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Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco or New York City or Austin or Seattle
$175k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Fluidstack
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
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Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
United States or Canada or San Francisco or New York City or Seattle or Ann Arbor
$151k-$191k/yr RemoteFull Time
Censys
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
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Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Zanskar
Zanskar: AI-native geothermal energy using artificial intelligence and geoscience to discover, develop, and operate geothermal power projects.
7+ YOERequires 7+ years of software engineering experience, distributed computing leadership, cloud architecture, resilient event-driven systems, scalable storage, observability, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Python, and SQL.
Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, GitHub Actions, GitHub, GCP, AWS, Python, SQL
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Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Emeryville or Santa Clara
$180k-$230k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Fab2
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.
Python, C++, Rust, Go, CI/CD, API, AI, ML
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Distributed Systems Software Engineer (Golang)
San Diego, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Apple
AppleNASDAQ: AAPL: Designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and digital services.
Build and run globally scaled service-enabling platforms and infrastructure using software-based solutions for satellite connectivity services.
Golang
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Distributed Systems Engineer, IoT
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Orion Sleep
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.
MQTT
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Principal Software Engineer, Distributed Systems Engineer - DGX Cloud
Durham or United States
$248k-$397k/yr HybridFull Time
NVIDIA
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.
Kubernetes, Go, Python, Slurm, Bright Cluster Manager, DGX Cloud
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Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$216k-$283k/yr OnsiteFull Time
IonQ
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.
Go, Rust, gNMI, NETCONF, SNMP, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Kafka, Kinesis, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, SQL, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune
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Distributed Systems Engineer — Full Time
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Dedalus Labs
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.
Rust, Go, C/C++, Kubernetes, Cloud Infrastructure, Linux, Virtualization, Kernel, Low-level systems
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Staff/Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
New York City, New York, United States
$185k-$235k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Helios Intelligence Platforms
Helios Intelligence Platforms: AI policy-intelligence platform and consulting firm serving government, lobbying, legal, compliance, and enterprise policy teams.
Expertise in distributed execution, scheduling, storage, reliability, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, security, and performance optimization for mission-critical systems.
Kafka, Redpanda, Pulsar, SQS, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Temporal, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Typesense, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Microsoft
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Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (200045410)
United States
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Microsoft
MicrosoftNASDAQ: MSFT: Multinational technology providing software, cloud, and AI solutions.
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Distributed Systems Engineer (L5) - Compute
United States
$388k-$619k/yr RemoteFull Time
Netflix
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.
Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, Golang, Java, Python
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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: 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.
Elixir, GCP, AWS, Salt, Terraform, k8s
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System Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Santa Clara, California, United States
$152k-$288k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
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.
Go, Python, Linux, NFS, IBM LSF, Kubernetes, Perl
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Distributed Systems Engineer (L4) - Data Platform
United States
$71k-$464k/yr RemoteFull Time
Netflix
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.
Java, REST, Distributed Systems, Multi-threading
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Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
San Francisco, California, United States
$160k-$194k/yr HybridFull Time
Verse
Verse: Energy intelligence software helping data center developers and large power users manage grid-connected energy assets.
Requires Python or Go, distributed systems, container deployments, microservices, monorepository workflows, service-oriented architecture, networking, security, and technical leadership. Kubernetes and GCP preferred.
Go, Python, Protobuf, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, Rust, Scala, Java, C, C++, gRPC
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Software Engineer, Atlas Distributed Systems
Palo Alto, California, United States
$158k-$237k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Rubrik
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.
C++, Kubernetes, Oracle, EC2, RDS, SSD, HDD, S3, Azure Blob, EBS, eBPF, AWS, Azure, GCP, ext4, NFS, SMB
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Software Engineer (Distributed Systems & Cloud)
Fort Meade, Maryland, United States
$150k-$190k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Visionist
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