Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

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 Scribd, Inc., we are dedicated to enhancing human understanding through our suite of innovative products, including Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable. Our mission revolves around transforming access into deeper insights and expertise for billions globally.Our CultureWe foster a culture where authenticity and boldness are encouraged; where constructive debates lead to commitment, and where every team member is empowered to prioritize customer needs.We believe that exceptional work emerges from harmonizing individual flexibility with a strong sense of community. Our Scribd Flex program allows employees to select their preferred work style and location, while also emphasizing the importance of intentional in-person interactions to enhance collaboration and culture. All employees are expected to participate in occasional in-person meetings, regardless of their location.We look for team members who embody “GRIT”—the intersection of passion and perseverance towards long-term goals. GRIT serves as a framework for our operations: setting and achieving Goals, delivering impactful Results, contributing Innovative ideas, and building a strong Team through collaboration.Join us at Scribd (pronounced “scribbed”) as we ignite human curiosity and create a world filled with stories and knowledge, democratizing the exchange of ideas and empowering collective expertise.The TeamOur ML Data Engineering team is responsible for powering metadata extraction, enrichment, and content understanding across our platforms.

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.

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.

About Scribd:At Scribd Inc. (pronounced “scribbed”), we ignite human curiosity by fostering a world rich in stories and knowledge. Join our innovative team as we democratize the flow of ideas and information, empowering collective expertise through our diverse product offerings: Everand, Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable.This job posting represents an open and approved position within our organization.We cultivate a culture where authenticity and boldness thrive; where we engage in vibrant discussions and embrace the unexpected; and where every employee is empowered to take meaningful actions with a firm customer focus.Our work structure emphasizes a balance between individual flexibility and community engagement. Through our Scribd Flex program, employees can collaborate with their managers to determine the most effective work style that meets their personal needs. A core principle of Scribd Flex is prioritizing intentional in-person interactions that foster collaboration, culture, and connection. Therefore, occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd employees, irrespective of their location.What do we seek in new team members? We hire for “GRIT.” GRIT embodies the blend of passion and perseverance towards long-term goals. At Scribd Inc., we believe in the possibilities this can unlock and encourage our employees to adopt a GRIT-driven approach to their work. In practical terms, GRIT represents our standards: we look for individuals who can set and accomplish Goals, deliver Results in their roles, contribute Innovative ideas and solutions, and positively impact the Team through collaboration and attitude.

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.

Join Cloudflare as a Software Engineer specializing in Distributed Systems and Infrastructure. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable systems that enhance the performance and reliability of our services. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions that support our mission to help build a better Internet.

About Us:At Ambience Healthcare, we are not just another scribe; we are pioneering an AI intelligence platform that reintegrates humanity into healthcare, delivering significant ROI for health systems nationwide.Our innovative technology empowers providers to concentrate on delivering exceptional care by alleviating the administrative burdens that distract them from their patients and essential duties. Ambience offers real-time, coding-aware documentation and clinical workflow support across various healthcare settings at the leading health systems in North America.Our teams operate with unwavering dedication and extreme ownership to develop optimal solutions for our healthcare partners. We cherish transparency, positivity, and deep contemplation, holding each other to high standards because we recognize that the challenges we tackle are of utmost importance.Recognized as the leader in enhancing clinician experience by KLAS Research in their Emerging Solutions Top 20 Report, honored by Fast Company as one of the Next Big Things in Tech, acknowledged by Inc. as one of the best AI companies in healthcare, and selected as a LinkedIn Top Startup in 2024 and 2025. We're proudly supported by Oak HC/FT, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAI Startup Fund, and Kleiner Perkins — and we're just beginning our journey.The Role:Ambience is responsible for processing millions of patient encounters across the largest health systems in the country. These organizations rely on us for real-time clinical workflows where latency and reliability significantly influence patient care. A delay during a patient visit is not merely a negative metric; it can lead to a physician abandoning the tool.In this position, you will oversee the core systems that enable Ambience to scale with reliability: database architecture, caching, multi-tenancy, and performance optimization that influences the user experience for clinicians. You will design database architectures that accommodate our growth, construct caching systems that prevent EHR API latency from affecting critical processes, and develop multi-tenant infrastructures that protect customer data while enhancing performance.Your ultimate goal will be to create infrastructure that other teams rely on effortlessly.Our engineering roles are hybrid, requiring presence in our San Francisco office three times a week.

At Browserbase, we revolutionize web browsing for AI agents and applications. Our innovative headless browser infrastructure automates interactions with websites, simplifies form filling, and replicates user actions seamlessly.Having successfully raised a $40M Series B last year, we are on an accelerated growth trajectory. Supported by esteemed investors such as Kleiner Perkins, CRV, and Notable Capital, our dynamic team is committed to realizing our CEO's vision for empowering the best AI tools and transforming web automation.Our Core Infrastructure team is essential for maintaining the efficiency of our operations. This group tackles significant distributed systems challenges, ensuring our platform's speed, reliability, and scalability.

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.

OverviewPluralis Research is at the forefront of innovation in Protocol Learning, specializing in the collaborative training of foundational models. Our approach ensures that no single participant ever has or can obtain a complete version of the model. This initiative aims to create community-driven, collectively owned frontier models that operate on self-sustaining economic principles.We are seeking experienced Senior or Staff Machine Learning Engineers with over 5 years of expertise in distributed systems and large-scale machine learning training. In this role, you will design and implement a groundbreaking substrate for training distributed ML models that function effectively over consumer-grade internet connections.

Role OverviewJoin our innovative team as a Distributed Systems Engineer at Archil, where you will play a pivotal role in developing cutting-edge storage solutions. You will work across the entire technology stack, tackling challenges as they arise and significantly shaping our product's technical and strategic direction.Your responsibilities will include:Being on-call for our production systems to assist customers promptly in case of issues.Innovating and implementing unprecedented features in our storage services.Designing interactions within distributed systems to ensure atomicity and idempotency.Deploying and standardizing infrastructure across various cloud environments.Navigating evolving customer requirements amidst ambiguity.

Join Baseten as a Software Engineer focusing on GPU Networking and Distributed Systems. In this pivotal role, you'll collaborate with talented engineers and researchers to develop cutting-edge solutions that leverage GPU technology for high-performance networking operations. Your contributions will be instrumental in shaping the future of distributed systems, enhancing performance, scalability, and reliability.

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.

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.