Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

Join Cloudflare as a Distributed Systems Engineer within our dynamic Data Platform team, focusing on Analytics and Alerts. In this position, you will play a pivotal role in building and optimizing distributed systems that power our data analytics capabilities, providing real-time insights and alerts to enhance our customer experience.

Join Cloudflare as a Distributed Systems Engineer focusing on our Data Platform, where you will play a pivotal role in developing analytics and alert systems that enhance our services. You will collaborate with a talented team to design scalable and efficient systems to manage and analyze vast amounts of data. Your work will directly impact the performance and reliability of our offerings, ensuring our customers have the best possible experience.

Join Cloudflare as a Distributed Systems Engineer and help us build and maintain our innovative Data Platform. In this role, you'll be working on our Analytical Database Platform, focusing on enhancing data processing and storage technologies to support our global client base. If you are passionate about distributing systems and enjoy solving complex problems, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Join Cloudflare as a Distributed Systems Engineer specializing in our Data Platform. In this role, you will be at the forefront of building and optimizing systems that enhance data delivery, database management, and retrieval processes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate and improve our platform, ensuring seamless data access and performance.This position offers a unique opportunity to work in a dynamic environment, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to impact the way data is processed and utilized across our platform.

We are seeking a talented and driven Distributed Systems Engineer to join our dynamic Data Platform team at Cloudflare. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and help shape the future of data delivery, database management, and retrieval systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable, reliable, and efficient distributed systems that power our services.

Join Cloudflare as a Systems Engineer focusing on Metrics and Alerting to enhance our platform's capabilities. As part of our innovative team, you will be responsible for developing systems that monitor and alert on key performance metrics, ensuring seamless operations and improved user experiences. We value creativity and encourage you to bring your unique insights to our collaborative environment.

Join Cloudflare as a Distributed Systems Engineer focusing on our Data Platform, specifically in the area of Logs and Audit Logs. In this pivotal role, you will drive the design and implementation of scalable distributed systems that enhance our data processing capabilities.As part of our innovative team, you will collaborate with cross-functional partners to optimize data flow and ensure the integrity of logs across our infrastructure. Your expertise will contribute to building a robust platform that supports analytics and monitoring for our diverse customer base.

At Inngest, our Systems Engineers are the architects behind the backbone of our platform, crafting a robust execution layer, an efficient queueing system, and scalable state stores that interlink seamlessly. This role presents an exciting opportunity to tackle complex technical challenges while deriving immense satisfaction from your contributions.About Us: Inngest is pioneering innovative solutions to long-standing challenges faced by developers. Our mission is to create first-of-its-kind tools that enhance the daily workflow of developers, prioritizing user experience and performance. A strong product-centric mindset and a passion for developer tools are essential for success in this role.The Role: A successful Systems Engineer at Inngest must possess a blend of generalist and specialist skills. You will collaborate with our team to enhance the functionality of our queueing system (including debounce and concurrency mechanisms), manage vast amounts of data in our state store, and refine the API layers that facilitate user interactions. Your work will have a direct impact on millions of developers, and you will engage closely with designers, engineers, and founders to optimize user experience.Note: This position requires overlapping working hours with US PST. While residing in the San Francisco Bay Area is preferred, exceptional candidates from anywhere in the United States will be considered. Our engineering team operates in-person several days a week in San Francisco.

At Databricks, we are driven by a passion for empowering data teams to tackle the world’s most challenging problems — from transforming transportation to accelerating medical innovations. We achieve this by creating and maintaining the leading data and AI infrastructure platform, enabling our clients to leverage profound data insights for business enhancement. Founded by engineers with a customer-first mentality, we eagerly embrace every opportunity to tackle complex technical challenges, ranging from the design of next-generation UI/UX for data interactions to scaling our services across millions of virtual machines. Our journey has just begun.As a member of the Runtime team at Databricks, you will be instrumental in developing the next generation of distributed data storage and processing systems. These systems will surpass specialized SQL query engines in relational query performance while offering the programming abstractions necessary to support a variety of workloads, from ETL to data science.Example projects include:Apache Spark™: Contribute to the de facto open-source standard framework for big data.Data Plane Storage: Develop reliable and high-performance services and client libraries for managing vast amounts of data within cloud storage backends like AWS S3 and Azure Blob Store.Delta Lake: Design a storage management system that merges the scalability and cost-effectiveness of data lakes with the performance and reliability of data warehouses, providing features like ACID transactions and time travel.Delta Pipelines: Simplify the orchestration and operation of numerous data pipelines, enabling clients to deploy, test, and upgrade pipelines effortlessly.Performance Engineering: Create the next-generation query optimizer and execution engine that is fast, scalable, and robust.

About UsSieve is a pioneering AI research lab dedicated solely to video data. We harness exabyte-scale video infrastructure and innovative video understanding techniques, along with a multitude of data sources, to create datasets that advance the field of video modeling. Given that video constitutes 80% of internet traffic, it serves as a vital medium that fuels creativity, communication, gaming, AR/VR, and robotics. Our mission is to tackle the most significant challenge in the development of these applications: acquiring high-quality training data.With a small yet highly skilled team of just 15 members, we have formed strategic partnerships with leading AI labs and achieved $XXM in revenue last quarter alone. Our Series A funding round last year was backed by prestigious firms, including Matrix Partners, Swift Ventures, Y Combinator, and AI Grant.About the RoleAs a Distributed Systems Engineer at Sieve, you will be responsible for designing and implementing systems that efficiently manage the compute, scheduling, and orchestration of complex machine learning and ETL pipelines. Your work will ensure these systems operate quickly, reliably, and cost-effectively while processing large volumes of video data.You will thrive in this role if you are passionate about optimizing system uptime, have experience with cloud technologies, and enjoy working with high-performance distributed systems involving thousands of GPUs. Additionally, you will play a key role in developing excellent internal tools and CI/CD pipelines to facilitate rapid iteration.

About Our TeamJoin the innovative Sora team at OpenAI, where we are at the forefront of developing multimodal capabilities for our foundation models. As a dynamic hybrid of research and product development, we focus on seamlessly integrating advanced multimodal functionalities into our AI offerings, ensuring they are not only reliable and user-friendly but also aligned with our mission to foster broad societal benefits.About the PositionWe are seeking a dedicated Software Engineer specializing in Distributed Data Systems to architect and enhance the infrastructure that supports large-scale multimodal training and evaluation at OpenAI. In this role, you will oversee distributed data pipelines and collaborate closely with our researchers to translate their requirements into robust, high-performance systems. You will play a crucial role in fortifying the pipelines that underpin Sora’s rapid innovation cycles.We are looking for engineers with a keen eye for detail, substantial experience with distributed systems, and a proven track record of building reliable infrastructures in high-stakes environments.This position is based in San Francisco, CA, and follows a hybrid work model requiring three days in the office each week. We also provide relocation assistance to new team members.Key Responsibilities:Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure systems including distributed computing, data orchestration, distributed storage, streaming infrastructure, and machine learning infrastructure, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and secure.Ensure our data platform can scale dramatically while maintaining high levels of reliability and efficiency.Collaborate with researchers to deeply understand their needs and translate them into production-ready systems.Harden, optimize, and maintain vital data infrastructure systems that drive multimodal training and evaluation.Ideal Candidates Will Have:Extensive experience with distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure, coupled with a strong passion for data.A detail-oriented mindset and a commitment to building and maintaining dependable systems.Solid software engineering fundamentals and exceptional organizational skills.Comfort with ambiguity and rapid changes in a fast-paced environment.About OpenAIOpenAI is a pioneering AI research and deployment organization dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We strive to advance digital intelligence in a way that is safe and beneficial, pushing the boundaries of innovation and technology.

About Our TeamJoin the innovative Sora team at OpenAI, where we are at the forefront of developing multimodal capabilities for our foundation models. Our hybrid research and product team is dedicated to seamlessly integrating multimodal functionalities into our AI solutions, ensuring they are dependable, user-centric, and aligned with our vision of benefiting society at large.Role OverviewAs a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Distributed Data Systems, you will be instrumental in designing and scaling the infrastructure that facilitates large-scale multimodal training and evaluation at OpenAI. Your role will involve managing complex distributed data pipelines, collaborating closely with researchers to convert their requirements into robust, production-ready systems, and enhancing pipelines that are essential for Sora's rapid iteration cycles.We are seeking detail-oriented engineers with extensive experience in distributed systems who thrive in high-stakes environments and excel in building resilient infrastructure.This position is located in San Francisco, CA, and follows a hybrid work model, requiring three days in the office each week. We also provide relocation assistance for new team members.Key Responsibilities:Design, implement, and maintain data infrastructure systems, including distributed computing, data orchestration, distributed storage, streaming infrastructure, and machine learning systems, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and security.Ensure our data platform can scale exponentially while maintaining high reliability and efficiency.Collaborate with researchers to gain a deep understanding of their requirements, translating them into production-ready systems.Strengthen, optimize, and manage critical data infrastructure systems that support multimodal training and evaluation.You Will Excel in This Role If You:Possess strong experience with distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure, coupled with a keen interest in data.Exhibit meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to building and maintaining reliable systems.Demonstrate solid software engineering fundamentals and effective organizational skills.Thrive in environments characterized by ambiguity and rapid change.About OpenAIOpenAI is a trailblazing AI research and deployment organization committed to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence serves humanity. We continuously push the boundaries of AI capabilities and strive to create technology that benefits everyone.

P-186 At Databricks, we are passionate about empowering data teams to tackle some of the world’s most challenging problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. Our mission is to build and operate the leading data and AI infrastructure platform, enabling our customers to concentrate on the high-value challenges that are integral to their own objectives. Founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Databricks has rapidly evolved from a small office in Berkeley, California, to a global powerhouse with over 1000 employees. Trusted by thousands of organizations, from startups to Fortune 100 companies, we are recognized as one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies worldwide. Our engineering teams create highly sophisticated products that address significant needs in the industry. We continuously push the limits of data and AI technology while maintaining the resilience, security, and scalability essential for our customers' success on our platform. We manage one of the largest-scale software platforms, consisting of millions of virtual machines that generate terabytes of logs and process exabytes of data daily. At this scale, we frequently encounter cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must effectively shield our customers from these challenges. Modern data analysis leverages advanced techniques, such as machine learning, that far exceed the capabilities of traditional SQL query engines. As a Software Engineer on the Runtime team at Databricks, you will be instrumental in developing the next generation of distributed data storage and processing systems that outshine specialized SQL query engines in relational query performance, while providing the flexibility and programming abstractions to support a variety of workloads, from ETL to data science. Examples of projects you may work on include: Apache Spark™: Contributing to the de facto open-source framework for big data. Data Plane Storage: Developing reliable, high-performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing vast amounts of data on cloud storage backends like AWS S3 and Azure Blob Store. Delta Lake: A storage management system that merges the scalability and cost-effectiveness of data lakes with the performance and reliability of data warehouses, featuring low latency streaming. Its higher-level abstractions and guarantees, including ACID transactions and time travel, significantly reduce the complexity of real-world data engineering architectures. Delta Pipelines: Aiming to simplify the management of data engineering pipelines.

About Our TeamThe Platform Systems team at OpenAI is at the forefront of innovation, merging advanced AI technologies with large-scale distributed systems. We are tasked with creating the engineering and research infrastructure essential for training OpenAI's premier models on some of the most powerful, custom-built supercomputers globally.Our team is dedicated to developing the core software for model training, delving deep into the technological stack. This encompasses collective communication, compute efficiency, parallelism strategies, fault tolerance, failure detection, and observability. The systems we design are pivotal to enhancing OpenAI's research capabilities, facilitating reliable and efficient training at the leading edge of technology.We work in close partnership with researchers across the organization, continuously integrating insights from various OpenAI projects to advance our training platform.About the RoleAs a Software Engineer specializing in Platform Systems, you will architect and develop distributed systems that enhance visibility into large-scale training operations, ensuring their dependable operation at scale.Your responsibilities will include designing systems for failure detection, tracing, and observability that pinpoint slow or malfunctioning nodes, identify performance bottlenecks, and assist engineers in optimizing extensive distributed training tasks. This infrastructure is integral to the functionality of OpenAI's training stack and is continuously evolving to accommodate new use cases and increasingly intricate workloads.This position is central to our training infrastructure, merging systems engineering, performance analysis, and large-scale debugging.Key ResponsibilitiesDesign and develop distributed failure detection, tracing, and profiling systems tailored for large-scale AI training jobs.Create tools to identify slow, faulty, or errant nodes and deliver actionable insights into system behavior.Enhance observability, reliability, and performance across OpenAI's training platform.Troubleshoot and resolve issues within complex, high-throughput distributed systems.Collaborate effectively with systems, infrastructure, and research teams to advance platform capabilities.Adapt and expand failure detection and tracing systems to support new training paradigms and workloads.Ideal Candidate ProfilePossesses a deep passion for performance, stability, and observability in distributed systems.Demonstrates proficiency in systems engineering and performance analysis.Has experience in debugging high-throughput distributed systems.Exhibits strong collaboration skills with a track record of working with cross-functional teams.Shows adaptability and eagerness to embrace new technologies and methodologies.

Join Cloudflare as a Senior Systems Engineer specializing in our Data Platform. In this pivotal role, you'll be responsible for designing and implementing scalable systems that process vast amounts of data, ensuring performance and reliability across our services. Your expertise will drive innovative solutions that enhance our platform capabilities.

Why Join Achira?Become part of an exceptional team comprised of scientists, ML researchers, and engineers dedicated to transforming the landscape of drug discovery.Engage with cutting-edge machine learning infrastructure at an unprecedented scale, leveraging extensive computing resources, vast datasets, and ambitious goals.Take ownership of significant projects from conception through to architecture and deployment on large-scale infrastructures.Thrive in a culture that values thoroughness, speed, and a proactive, builder-oriented mindset.About the RoleAt Achira, we are developing state-of-the-art foundation models that address the most complex challenges in simulation for drug discovery and beyond. Our atomistic foundation simulation models (FSMs) serve as comprehensive representations of the physical microcosm, encompassing machine learning interaction potentials (MLIPs), neural network potentials (NNPs), and various generative model classes.We are looking for a Software Engineer who is enthusiastic about distributed computing and its applications in machine learning. You will play a pivotal role in designing and constructing the infrastructure for our ML data generation pipelines, model training, and fine-tuning workflows across large-scale distributed systems.Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring our compute clusters are efficient, observable, cost-effective, and dependable, enabling us to advance the frontiers of ML development. If you are passionate about distributed systems, performance optimization, and cloud cost efficiency, we encourage you to apply.You will be empowered to conceptualize and manage complex workloads across multiple vendors worldwide. Achira's mission revolves around computation, and providing seamless access to our uniquely tailored workloads at the lowest possible cost is critical to our success.

Join Krea's Innovative TeamAt Krea, we are at the forefront of developing next-generation AI creative tools. Our commitment lies in making AI an intuitive and controllable medium for creatives. We aspire to create tools that enhance human creativity rather than replace it.We view AI as a transformative medium that enables expressions across diverse formats—text, images, video, sound, and even 3D. Our focus is on creating smarter, more adaptable tools that leverage this medium effectively.The Role of Supercomputing and AI Infrastructure at KreaOur team is responsible for building and managing the foundational infrastructure that supports Krea's research and inference processes. This includes distributed training systems, over 1000 Kubernetes GPU clusters, and extensive petabyte-scale data pipelines. Much of our work involves creating bespoke solutions, such as custom distributed datastores, job orchestration systems, and advanced streaming pipelines, which are designed to handle modern AI workloads efficiently.Key Projects You Will Contribute To:Distributed Data Systems: Design and implement multi-stage pipelines to transform petabytes of raw data into clean, annotated datasets; run classification models across billions of images; deploy and integrate large language models to caption extensive multimedia data.GPU Infrastructure: Manage distributed training and inference across 1000+ GPU Kubernetes clusters; address orchestration and scaling challenges for large-scale GPU job processing; optimize research workflows across multiple datacenters.Distributed Training: Profile and enhance dataloaders streaming thousands of images per second; troubleshoot InfiniBand networking during extensive training runs; develop fault tolerance systems for large-scale pretraining; collaborate with researchers to refine reinforcement learning infrastructure.Applied ML Pipelines: Identify clean scenes in millions of videos utilizing distributed shot-boundary detection; tailor and train models to sift through billions of images for specific queries; construct systems that link raw cluster capacity with research outcomes.

About FaireAt Faire, we are reshaping the future of local commerce through our innovative online wholesale marketplace. We empower independent retailers worldwide, who collectively generate more revenue than giants like Walmart and Amazon, yet often struggle to compete individually. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, data, and machine learning, we connect a vibrant community of entrepreneurs, helping them discover unique products to enhance their offerings. Our mission is to provide these businesses with the tools and insights needed to thrive in a competitive landscape dominated by large corporations.By fostering the growth of independent businesses, Faire drives positive economic change in local communities globally. We seek driven, smart, and passionate individuals who share our commitment to supporting local economies. If you value community and innovation, we invite you to join our dynamic team.About This RoleAs a member of our Engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in building the software that powers our marketplace. The Platform group provides essential support to various teams across Faire, including Product Engineering, Data Science, Product Management, Strategy, and Finance, allowing them to excel without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. We prioritize rapid development and high-quality software, upholding best practices in engineering, security, maintainability, and scalability to serve millions of users effectively.In this position, you will be a key technical leader in the data domain, influencing multiple Platform and Product teams.Within the Platform group, you will collaborate with:The Data Infrastructure team, responsible for creating a secure, reliable, and cost-efficient platform for data ingestion, storage, computation, orchestration, and governance.The Analytics Platform team, which develops robust data warehousing capabilities and foundational data assets to facilitate swift, data-driven analytics.This role also involves engaging with technology infrastructure vendors and interacting with all data and analytics functions at Faire, ensuring the seamless integration of product analytics engineering for actionable insights.

At Exa, we are on a mission to create a cutting-edge search engine from the ground up, tailored specifically for AI applications. Our team is dedicated to developing large-scale infrastructure that efficiently crawls the internet, trains advanced embedding models for indexing, and constructs high-performance vector databases in Rust for optimized searching. We also manage a state-of-the-art $5M H200 GPU cluster that activates thousands of machines simultaneously.As a Software Engineer specializing in Distributed Data Systems, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the data infrastructure that drives our operations—from crawling billions of web pages to training sophisticated embedding models and delivering real-time search functionalities. You will enjoy significant autonomy in creating systems capable of scaling to hundreds of petabytes. This is your opportunity to work on data pipelines at an unprecedented scale.