... distributed systems • Experience leading teams and mentoring more junior developers • Familiarity with Typescript and a relevant frontend framework (e.g. React) • You've been a startup founder ...
... distributed systems • Experience leading teams and mentoring more junior developers • Familiarity with Typescript and a relevant frontend framework (e.g. React) • You've been a startup founder ...
Role As a distributed systems engineer, you'll work across the stack to solve problems as they come up and help build Archil volumes. You'll have significant influence over the technical and product ...
Role As a distributed systems engineer, you'll work across the stack to solve problems as they come up and help build Archil volumes. You'll have significant influence over the technical and product ...
Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$140 - $210/hr
About the Role As an infrastructure engineer at Sieve, you'll design and engineer systems that ... hyper-fast distributed systems at the scale of thousands of GPUs, and building great internal ...
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Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$140 - $210/hr
About the Role As an infrastructure engineer at Sieve, you'll design and engineer systems that ... hyper-fast distributed systems at the scale of thousands of GPUs, and building great internal ...
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The Distributed Systems Engineer will own the observability platform and build critical infrastructure tools that ensure seamless operation and management of the company's hyperscale fleet.
The Distributed Systems Engineer will own the observability platform and build critical infrastructure tools that ensure seamless operation and management of the company's hyperscale fleet.
... distributed systems • Experience leading teams and mentoring more junior developers • Familiarity with Typescript and a relevant frontend framework (e.g. React) • You've been a startup founder ...
... distributed systems • Experience leading teams and mentoring more junior developers • Familiarity with Typescript and a relevant frontend framework (e.g. React) • You've been a startup founder ...
Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$208K - $269K/yr
Distributed systems and data pipeline engineering. Time-series observability stacks (Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics). API design and versioning at scale. Workflow and orchestration engines ...
Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$208K - $269K/yr
Distributed systems and data pipeline engineering. Time-series observability stacks (Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics). API design and versioning at scale. Workflow and orchestration engines ...
Experience with high-scale distributed systems * Experience leading teams and mentoring more junior developers * Familiarity with Typescript and a relevant frontend framework (e.g. React) * You've ...
Experience with high-scale distributed systems * Experience leading teams and mentoring more junior developers * Familiarity with Typescript and a relevant frontend framework (e.g. React) * You've ...
... distributed systems • Experience leading teams and mentoring more junior developers • Familiarity with Typescript and a relevant frontend framework (e.g. React) • You've been a startup founder ...
... distributed systems • Experience leading teams and mentoring more junior developers • Familiarity with Typescript and a relevant frontend framework (e.g. React) • You've been a startup founder ...
Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$175 - $300/hr
Distributed systems and data pipeline engineering. Time-series observability stacks (Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics). API design and versioning at scale. Workflow and orchestration engines ...
Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$175 - $300/hr
Distributed systems and data pipeline engineering. Time-series observability stacks (Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics). API design and versioning at scale. Workflow and orchestration engines ...
Distributed Systems Engineer
Portland, OR · On-site
... engineering practices like unit testing, profiling and effective logging. Experience in functional/scaleable languages (Scala preferred, Python, R may be considered) Experience delivering distributed ...
Distributed Systems Engineer
Portland, OR · On-site
... engineering practices like unit testing, profiling and effective logging. Experience in functional/scaleable languages (Scala preferred, Python, R may be considered) Experience delivering distributed ...
Distributed Systems Engineer
New York, NY · On-site +1
$125K - $250K/yr
The Role We are looking for a distributed systems engineer to join a startup using zero-knowledge proofs to scale smart contract applications. You will be responsible for building Rust-based rollup ...
Distributed Systems Engineer
New York, NY · On-site +1
$125K - $250K/yr
The Role We are looking for a distributed systems engineer to join a startup using zero-knowledge proofs to scale smart contract applications. You will be responsible for building Rust-based rollup ...
Sr. Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$123K - $168K/yr
As a distributed systems engineer, you'll work across the stack to solve problems and help build Archil volumes, with significant influence over the technical and product direction. Responsibilities ...
Sr. Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$123K - $168K/yr
As a distributed systems engineer, you'll work across the stack to solve problems and help build Archil volumes, with significant influence over the technical and product direction. Responsibilities ...
Government Security Clearance Experience: 3-8 years of experience in systems engineering, distributed systems, or complex software platforms * Computer Science * Electrical Engineering * Software ...
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Government Security Clearance Experience: 3-8 years of experience in systems engineering, distributed systems, or complex software platforms * Computer Science * Electrical Engineering * Software ...
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Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
$107K - $146K/yr
Distributed Systems Engineer to Build the Future of Enterprise AI SaaS Location: Remote (US time zones preferred) | Full-time Are you a distributed systems wizard who dreams of architecting the ...
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
$107K - $146K/yr
Distributed Systems Engineer to Build the Future of Enterprise AI SaaS Location: Remote (US time zones preferred) | Full-time Are you a distributed systems wizard who dreams of architecting the ...
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
$107K - $146K/yr
They are seeking a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to improve the efficiency and reliability of their large-scale distributed data system, focusing on performance enhancements and architectural ...
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
$107K - $146K/yr
They are seeking a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to improve the efficiency and reliability of their large-scale distributed data system, focusing on performance enhancements and architectural ...
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA · On-site
$122K - $166K/yr
The Senior Distributed Systems Engineer will optimize communication stacks for large-scale distributed training, ensuring performance and reliability across GPU workloads. Responsibilities : • ...
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA · On-site
$122K - $166K/yr
The Senior Distributed Systems Engineer will optimize communication stacks for large-scale distributed training, ensuring performance and reliability across GPU workloads. Responsibilities : • ...
Systems Engineers at Inngest build the core of our product: the durable execution layer, queueing system, state stores, and the distributed systems that connect them together. It's extremely fun ...
Systems Engineers at Inngest build the core of our product: the durable execution layer, queueing system, state stores, and the distributed systems that connect them together. It's extremely fun ...
Sr. Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$123K - $168K/yr
Role As a distributed systems engineer, you'll work across the stack to solve problems as they come up and help build Archil volumes. You'll have significant influence over the technical and product ...
Sr. Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$123K - $168K/yr
Role As a distributed systems engineer, you'll work across the stack to solve problems as they come up and help build Archil volumes. You'll have significant influence over the technical and product ...
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA · On-site
$122K - $166K/yr
... systems to train next-generation foundation models. They are seeking a deeply technical engineer to co-design and optimize the communication stack for large-scale distributed training, focusing on ...
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA · On-site
$122K - $166K/yr
... systems to train next-generation foundation models. They are seeking a deeply technical engineer to co-design and optimize the communication stack for large-scale distributed training, focusing on ...
Distributed Systems Engineer, L5
$100K - $700K/yr
We are looking for Distributed Systems Engineers to help evolve and innovate our infrastructure. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team to bring new perspectives as we solve the ...
Distributed Systems Engineer, L5
$100K - $700K/yr
We are looking for Distributed Systems Engineers to help evolve and innovate our infrastructure. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team to bring new perspectives as we solve the ...
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Job description
Job Summary:
Arcade.dev is transforming AI from chatbots to agents that can take actions against real systems. The role involves building the infrastructure for managing AI tools, designing and deploying high-performance software, and creating integrations with major platforms.
Responsibilities:
• Build the infrastructure to manage the backplane for all future AI tools
• Design, build, test, and deploy high-performance, secure, production-grade software.
• Develop SDKs and frameworks that make it easy for other developers to build custom tools
• Help set industry standards for tool calling and authorization (for example, we helped write the MCP authorization spec)
• Create integrations with major platforms and LLMs (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, OpenAi, Anthropic, etc.)
• Shape the roadmap for the team
• Build leverage (via AI) - projects that take a week today should take a day next time.
• Share your work with our customers and community, building our (and your) brand.
Qualifications:
Required:
• An insatiable desire to ship.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience comprising of:
• 5+ years of backend development experience with either Python, Go, Ruby, Typescript, or a similar language and API & Web frameworks.
• 2+ years of experience with infrastructure and deployment (AWS/GCP, Terraform, Helm, etc)
• Strong experience building and maintaining production APIs.
• Track record of writing clean, well-documented, well-tested code.
• User-centered approach to designing developer-centric products and tools.
Preferred:
• Experience building developer tools or SDKs
• Familiarity with LLMs and AI frameworks (Langchain, LlamaIndex, etc)
• Open-source contributions
• Experience with high-scale distributed systems
• Experience leading teams and mentoring more junior developers
• Familiarity with Typescript and a relevant frontend framework (e.g. React)
• You’ve been a startup founder or early-state startup employee before and love it
Company:
Arcade is an MCP runtime that helps AI Agents securely connect to APIs, data, and enterprise systems Founded in 2024, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.
Arcade.dev is transforming AI from chatbots to agents that can take actions against real systems. The role involves building the infrastructure for managing AI tools, designing and deploying high-performance software, and creating integrations with major platforms.
Responsibilities:
• Build the infrastructure to manage the backplane for all future AI tools
• Design, build, test, and deploy high-performance, secure, production-grade software.
• Develop SDKs and frameworks that make it easy for other developers to build custom tools
• Help set industry standards for tool calling and authorization (for example, we helped write the MCP authorization spec)
• Create integrations with major platforms and LLMs (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, OpenAi, Anthropic, etc.)
• Shape the roadmap for the team
• Build leverage (via AI) - projects that take a week today should take a day next time.
• Share your work with our customers and community, building our (and your) brand.
Qualifications:
Required:
• An insatiable desire to ship.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience comprising of:
• 5+ years of backend development experience with either Python, Go, Ruby, Typescript, or a similar language and API & Web frameworks.
• 2+ years of experience with infrastructure and deployment (AWS/GCP, Terraform, Helm, etc)
• Strong experience building and maintaining production APIs.
• Track record of writing clean, well-documented, well-tested code.
• User-centered approach to designing developer-centric products and tools.
Preferred:
• Experience building developer tools or SDKs
• Familiarity with LLMs and AI frameworks (Langchain, LlamaIndex, etc)
• Open-source contributions
• Experience with high-scale distributed systems
• Experience leading teams and mentoring more junior developers
• Familiarity with Typescript and a relevant frontend framework (e.g. React)
• You’ve been a startup founder or early-state startup employee before and love it
Company:
Arcade is an MCP runtime that helps AI Agents securely connect to APIs, data, and enterprise systems Founded in 2024, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.