Distributed Systems Engineer​/AI Security Startup

Staff Distributed Systems Engineer — AI Infrastructure (Open Source)

We’re an early‑stage, well‑funded AI infrastructure company operating in stealth. Our open‑source projects have tens of thousands of Git Hub stars and are used widely across the AI developer ecosystem. We’re hiring a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to help design and scale the core platform behind these tools.

$ - $ per year

You’ll take ownership of major distributed systems components, with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability. This is a senior technical role with architectural responsibility.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Distributed execution runtimes for ephemeral AI workloads
• Low‑latency control planes and coordination services
• Scheduling, isolation, and resource management
• Systems optimisation across compute, network, and storage
• Contributing to and maintaining key open‑source projects

• 8+ years in distributed systems or low‑level infrastructure
• Startup experience building a product or side projects related to technology passion
• Strong experience with Go, Rust, or C++
• Solid understanding of concurrency, networking, and distributed algorithms
• Experience with large‑scale systems and production reliability
• Comfortable working in open‑source environments

Nice to have
: micro‑VMs, container isolation, serverless/ephemeral compute, WASM, ML infra.

• High‑impact work used by thousands of developers
• Greenfield architecture with no legacy constraints
• Competitive compensation + meaningful equity

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Science and Information Technology