Distributed Systems Engineer Jobs

As a Staff Engineer on the Data Platform Experience team, you'll help shape how Datadog engineering teams build, operate, and evolve products on the Observability Data Platform. You'll lead the design and delivery of shared platform capabilities that reduce developer friction, improve operational visibility, and enable engineering teams to move faster with confidence. This role combines deep distributed systems expertise with technical leadership across multiple teams, influencing platform strategy while remaining hands-on in the code. You'll have the opportunity to solve company-wide challenges spanning cost intelligence, operational tooling, platform health, and developer experience. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: Lead strategic engineering initiatives that improve how product teams build, operate, and evolve services on the Observability Data Platform. Design and build scalable platform capabilities for cost intelligence, including cloud cost allocation, trend analysis, and optimization recommendations. Develop operational intelligence and self-service tooling that helps engineering teams understand platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and improve operational efficiency. Drive reusable platform services and developer workflows that increase engineering autonomy while reducing operational complexity across multiple products. Provide technical leadership across teams by influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards through hands-on technical contributions. Participate in the team's on-call rotation and continuously improve platform reliability, observability, and operational excellence. Who You Are: You have experience designing and building large-scale SaaS or cloud platforms with deep expertise i

This new team will architect the platform foundation and infrastructure that enables a "build once, run anywhere" model, ensuring our AI-powered modernisation suite operates seamlessly regardless of a client's security or network constraints. We are looking for engineers to join this high-visibility initiative, where you will solve unique distributed systems puzzles and help shape the future of how global enterprises leverage GenAI. We are looking for an experienced software engineer who thrives on solving infrastructure constraints and building enterprise facing platforms. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who can architect complex distributed systems, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams to deliver a platform that minimizes deployment friction and meets customers’ compliance requirements. This role can be based out of our Gurgaon office or Remotely in India. The ideal candidate for this role will have 8+ years of software development and operations experience, with a focus on building platforms and distributable software infrastructure 2+ years of experience leading, coaching, and mentoring a team of engineers to achieve high-impact results Deep experience designing distributable applications that run in air-gapped or highly restricted network environments Strong proficiency in containerization and orchestration, with the ability to design systems where the host executes containerized applications under strict security monitoring Experience building Service Host architectures that provide shared routing, proxy layers, and API gateways for multiple underlying services Experience managing persistent storage solutions (blob/file storage) within distributed systems Understanding of security-first design, specifically regarding the execution of untrusted code, fine-grain access control, and rigorous input validation Experience designing auto-update mechanisms for software that cannot directly access the public internet Curiosity,

We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join our growing Gurugram Products & Technology team to provide technical direction, direct architecture, and implement core parts of a new platform we are building to make it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB. As a Staff Engineer on this new team, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership to teams developing cutting edge technologies related to enabling deployment at scale of AI applications. You will take on challenging, high-visibility projects that improve and enhance the performance, scalability, and reliability of the distributed systems infrastructure for this new product. MongoDB engineering teams pride themselves on building high-quality software and living MongoDB cultural values every day – we value intellectual curiosity and honesty, and building together in an environment that prioritizes collaboration over competition. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model. Position Expectations Work closely with research, product management, product engineering, product design, peers as well as other teams within the company to define the first version and future evolution of the service Design, build and deliver well-tested core pieces of the platform in collaboration with other vested parties Contribute to shaping architecture, code reviews and development practices, developer experience as the teams and product grow Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects Qualifications Strong background in building core components for high scale compute and data distributed systems 8+ years experience of building distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale and an interest in working with Python, Go and Java Proven success in designing, writing, testing, debugging, performance tuning, possessing a strong grip on the foundational materials of computer science and maint

Join the Atlas Search Query team to design and develop the next generation of Search query architecture, optimization, and execution. Atlas Search is a growing cloud service that allows users to execute complex search and vector search queries using the MongoDB Query Language. Our users can focus on relevance and data retrieval instead of the machinery needed to search data at scale. Our team is building a cloud-based distributed system responsible for the core components of search including data ingestion, performance, query language, query execution, for both relevance-based search and vector search. Our product is being adopted quickly and there are many interesting projects. This is a technical role where you will be responsible for the success of complex Search Query feature development. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in San Francisco, CA for our hybrid working model. What You’ll Do Lead complex projects across the MongoDB ecosystem, for instance, development of a new Search aggregation framework within the MongoDB aggregation framework. Set project level strategy, architect features, and lead projects to successful execution Identify, design, and implement features enhancing our query language, performance, and operability Perform code reviews with peers and make recommendations on how to improve our software development processes Influence and grow team members through active mentoring and leading by example What We Look For 5+ years experience in data management/search systems, ideally with a strong query processing and optimization background Experienced in the development and maintenance of stateful distributed systems Eager to shape the technological direction of a complex system and have the ability to lead initiatives through collaboration with others Experienced in debugging and profiling multithreaded applications written in Java and Rust Bonus: experience with designing high-volume query engines, such as a datab

Join the Atlas Search team to design and develop the next generation of Semantic and Vector Search infrastructure. Atlas Search is a growing cloud service that allows users to execute complex search and vector search queries using the MongoDB Query Language. Our users can focus on relevance and data retrieval instead of the machinery needed to search data at scale. Our team is building a cloud-based distributed system responsible for the core components of search including data ingestion, performance, query language, query execution, for both relevance-based search and vector search. Our product is being adopted quickly and there are many interesting projects. This is a technical role where you will be responsible for the infrastructure and features enabling our at-scale cloud service powering vector and semantic search. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in the San Francisco Bay Area for our hybrid working model. What You’ll Do Lead complex projects across the MongoDB ecosystem, for instance, development of a new Search deployment framework within the MongoDB managed cloud Set project level strategy, architect features, and lead projects to successful execution Identify, design, and implement features enhancing our reliability, performance, security and efficiency Perform code reviews with peers and make recommendations on how to improve our software development processes Influence and grow team members through active mentoring and leading by example What We Look For 5+ years experience in data management/search systems, ideally with a strong distributed systems and infrastructure background Experienced in the development and maintenance of concurrent, stateful services Eager to shape the technological direction of a complex system and have the ability to lead initiatives through collaboration with others Experienced in writing features, debugging and optimizing multithreaded applications written in Java Familiarity with LLM

The MongoDB Cloud Services Team is a diverse group of contributors working together to help our users manage MongoDB at global scale. The Cloud Team is responsible for MongoDB Atlas: our database as a service offering, and fastest growing product, which allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes. The Backup Team delivers essential infrastructure to help our customers in their hour of need - providing the ability to quickly restore a massive, distributed database to any point in time at the click of a button. The Backup Team’s mission is to make MongoDB backup more reliable, faster, and also cheaper. This team is responsible for the Backup Agent (Go), the extensive server-side infrastructure (Java) which manages 100s of TB of data and processes billions of operations per day, and the user interface (Javascript) that customers use to manage their backups. Common project themes are performance, scaling, and ease of use. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York for our hybrid working model. We're looking for someone who is Skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.) Fond of chasing down tough problems in a distributed systems environment Cool under pressure - has wrangled production crises, and secretly finds this a little fun Experienced with Linux, and able to correlate application performance problems with underlying hardware limits Comfortable working across the stack of a modern web application Always striving to expand their knowledge Curious, collaborative and intellectually honest Responsibilities Work closely with product teams, considering the user’s perspective while helping the team achieve success Collaborate with team members over best practices and core concepts Hold yourself accountable to your actions, maintaining the balance between accomplishing goals with research & development Own our

The Infrastructure Engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining a self-service internal development platform that enables MongoDB engineering teams to reliably deploy and operate their own production services and products. We work with numerous engineering teams across the company to understand their infrastructure requirements and development workflows, develop broadly applicable self-service platform services and tooling, continuously monitor how platform services are being utilized, and look for ways to improve developer productivity through automation and education. We are big open source enthusiasts and use a number of open source tools in our stack (contributing upstream whenever possible). Some of the tools we use regularly include Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Crossplane, Terraform, Helm, Drone, Prometheus, and Grafana. However, technology is nothing without a stellar team of engineers that are focused on doing high quality work and working as a team to solve complex distributed computing and platform engineering problems. This is where you come in! We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model. Our ideal candidate Has built and operated large-scale distributed systems in cloud providers (AWS strongly preferred) Has a strong backend programming background. Fluency in Go is strongly preferred; deep experience with another compiled or strongly-typed backend language is acceptable Has experience working with AI coding agents and can demonstrate building high quality context to yield high quality outputs Has experience designing and implementing medium-to-large software projects, including driving design reviews and mentoring less-senior engineers Pragmatic, detail-oriented, self-motivated, and understands the benefits of collaboration Strong experience operating production Kubernetes clusters, not just deployed to it Has practical experience defining and operating against SLI/SLOs for services they owned Str

The Team Platform Engineering is the department within SRE that is responsible for a range of critical infrastructure and operational functions that support the broader engineering organization. Among these are our multi-cloud-provider Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, load balancing (including our public-facing edge and internal service mesh), and observability and alerting systems. The Fleet Management team provides the core runtime environment that empowers our developers to build and ship products to delight our customers. We manage the end-to-end lifecycle of our Kubernetes fleet, alongside the critical components that ensure cluster reliability and security (e.g., CoreDNS, cert-manager, and Gatekeeper). As our infrastructure scales to support new use cases and products, we are spearheading a migration from Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to an Operator-driven lifecycle management model. This role can be based out of our Austin, Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, Raleigh, or San Francisco offices, remotely in the United States region, or our European office in Dublin. Responsibilities Contribute to developing and maintaining a scalable and secure runtime environment on top of Kubernetes that supports product needs across MongoDB Provide internal support for our Kubernetes ecosystem, partnering with engineering teams to help them solve domain-specific problems Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve critical issues Prioritize blameless post-mortems and dedicate engineering time to systemic fixes, ensuring you aren’t paged for the same issue twice You may be a good fit if you Have 6+ years of experience in software development and operating distributed systems Are proficient in Go, Python, or a similar language, with a strong commitment to code quality and testing practices (writing unit, integration, and E2E tests) Have deep experience using and extending containerization technologies, preferably Kubernetes Have a solid understanding

About the Role The worldwide data management software market is massive – IDC forecasts it to be $137.6 billion by 2026! At MongoDB, we are transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading modern data platform and were the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity. The Storage Layer Services Team is currently re-architecting the MongoDB Cloud Storage Layer. This is a relatively new team in MongoDB that sits at the heart of the next generation MongoDB Cloud Storage Architecture, and the team is working to build performant multi-tenant distributed storage services both to enhance our existing MongoDB cloud storage architecture and to power more of our customers' use cases more efficiently. We are looking for talented Senior Engineers to join the team and be founding members of the team, where you will play a crucial role in our multi-year roadmap. Our team champions a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. If you want to work on a collaborative team that applies distributed systems fundamentals to deliver core storage features of a popular database, join us! Let’s change what’s possible for application developers, system architects, and database operators. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Sydney for our hybrid working model. Candidate Profile Minimum of 5 years of experience in programming, debugging, and performance tuning of distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming and performance profiling Experience with distributed systems Proven experience in building, deploying, and operating multi-tenant cloud services with a focus on operational excellence Familiarity with database internals or experience building core components for data processing systems Hands-on experience in developing performance-sensitive so

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing Gurugram Products & Technology team to provide technical direction, shape architecture, and build key operational foundations of a new platform we are building to make it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on this new team, you will be responsible for enabling deployment at scale of AI applications and improving the performance, scalability, and reliability of the distributed systems infrastructure for this new product. The platform's SRE team owns the operational foundations: the Kubernetes fleet, networking, observability and alerting, and tenant isolation. MongoDB engineering teams pride themselves on building high-quality software and living MongoDB cultural values every day – we value intellectual curiosity and honesty, and building together in an environment that prioritizes collaboration over competition. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model. Position Expectations Operate and improve the multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure that runs customer workloads Build for reliability, making services and infrastructure available, resilient, fault-tolerant, and self-healing Identify and configure key metrics to detect incidents and quantify service health, availability, and performance Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve issues involving platform infrastructure Mentor early-career SREs and contribute to the team’s operational practices as it grows Qualifications Strong background in software development and operating distributed systems 6+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems, with proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar programming language Experience operating Kubernetes in production and debugging below the abstraction layer, including scheduling, cluster networking, and node-level issues Expertise in cloud infrastructure platforms, in

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Marketplace teams are at the heart of our products and decision-making, owning everything from rider pricing to driver earnings, incentives, and efficient matching. We’re looking for passionate, driven engineers to build systems that empower our riders and drivers to have the best transportation experience possible through prediction, adaptivity, and personalization. We’re looking for someone who is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and impactful environment to create reliable solutions to distributed computing, ML, and data problems. The Pricing team is a centerpiece of Lyft’s Marketplace org, determining prices for all rideshare products and supporting new initiatives. Rider Engagement develops rider-facing engagement levers and optimizes user pricing experience to drive both short term and long term business outcomes. We work with Product & Science to solve and implement complex pricing requirements, balancing the needs of riders, drivers, and the business goals. As an owner of one of the most critical flows in the company, you will work on a wide array of challenges such as latency-sensitive concurrency problems, large scale distributed systems, and experimentation. If you’re interested in playing a large part in demand / supply management and improving the Lyft customer experience, this could be a great fit for you. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience. Work closely with cross-functional teams and partner teams to develop solutions based on technology and business needs, and advance team’s goals and priorities Independently lead features from idea to positive execution and launch Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintaina

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Core Services powers the passenger and driver state machines from request and accept through drop-off and payment completion. The team enables new ride variations like autonomous vehicles, taxis, scheduled, business concierge, health and more. The “Core Services” are a suite of distributed Python and Golang systems central to Lyft’s backend. As a software engineer on the team, you will work on integrating new rider and driver products and features onto the state machine and enhancing the performance and reliability of ride state transitions. If you are excited about solving back-end distributed systems problems and owning a mission-critical part of Lyft’s operations, this team is for you. As a Software Engineer at Lyft, you will collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional teams, such as product, data science, and analytics, to lead and execute large projects—from concept to efficient execution. We are looking for motivated engineers who are passionate about solving challenging technical problems and excited to work in a fast-paced, innovative, and cross-functional environment. In this role, you will tackle some of the most interesting and impactful problems in ridesharing. Key traits for success include being passionate about Lyft’s business and product, a quick learner, a collaborative mindset, and an eagerness to drive initiatives both within and across teams. You'll be joining a small, close-knit team with engaged and collaborative co-workers. Responsibilities: Design, develop, deploy, monitor, operate and maintain existing or new elements of the Fulfillment tech stack Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Have a good grasp and ability to explain the various tradeoffs made in decisions Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledg

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. We're looking for someone who gets excited about building data infrastructure at massive scale and cares deeply about the gaming communities we serve. Someone with passion for building lovable products for Discord users and Discord engineers. We're building the next generation Data Platform that powers decisions for one of the most vibrant platforms in the world. If you're the kind of Staff Engineer who sees ambiguity as an invitation — who builds systems that make whole teams faster, shapes technical strategy across the org, and wants your decisions to directly impact millions of gamers worldwide — we want to talk to you. To learn more about Discord's Data Platform, read our engineering blog, including how we built our modern data stack leveraging open-source tools! This position is based in our San Francisco office. What You'll Be Doing Own the technical direction of major Data Platform initiatives like GRC, scaling, or stream processing, from problem to production system and post-launch health Be a force multiplier: build reusable primitives, unblock teammates, and raise the quality bar across the team Stay a top code contributor. You write real production code while helping others reach the same bar Partner with XFN stakeholders to translate business problems into clear technical strategy Champion debate, decide, and commit and 80/20 thinking to drive robust technical solutions supporting multiple team What you should have 7+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of driving large, ambiguous technical initiatives end-to-end Expertise in distributed systems and data infrastructu

Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. What you’ll do Responsibilities Design, develop, maintain, and support application programming interfaces (APIs), backend services, and distributed systems using Ruby, Java, Go and Scala. Build, test, deploy, and maintain software infrastructure to support large-scale production systems. Design and develop software systems using analytical techniques and mathematical models to evaluate system performance, predict outcomes, and assess design tradeoffs. Develop and execute software testing, validation, debugging, and documentation procedures to ensure system reliability and performance. Diagnose and resolve production issues across multiple services and layers of the technology stack. Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine technical feasibility, design approaches, and implementation timelines within cost and resource constraints. Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to design and implement new features for large-scale systems. Design and build systems to securely store, manage, and modify production data and services. Improve engineering standards, development tools, and software development processes to enhance system quality and efficiency. Who you are Minimum requirements Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, plus 2 years of software development experience. Must also have 2 years of experi

About the Team API Multimodal builds the developer-facing products and infrastructure that bring OpenAI’s image, audio, and real-time model capabilities into the world. We are responsible for high-scale APIs for image generation, speech transcription, speech generation, and low-latency voice interactions. We partner closely with Research and Inference to bring frontier model capabilities to developers and use customer feedback to improve our models. About the Role As a software engineer on API Multimodal, you will build and operate the products and distributed systems behind OpenAI’s image, audio, and real-time APIs. You will work across model integration, API design, and production infrastructure to turn new research capabilities into reliable developer experiences. This hands-on role combines backend and systems depth with product judgment: you will own projects end to end, partner with Research, Inference, and Safety, and help make multimodal AI useful at scale. Model training experience is not required. In this role, you will: Design, build, and ship developer-facing APIs and backend services that serve frontier models. Architect low-latency streaming, request, session, and model integration systems that make complex multimodal interactions reliable and intuitive at scale. Work directly with Research to bring new model capabilities into production, shape the systems around them, and incorporate feedback from real-world developers and customers. Own the availability, latency, scalability, and cost efficiency of the services you build. Own projects from technical design and implementation through launch and ongoing iteration, while raising the team’s engineering standards. Your background might look something like: 7+ years of professional experience, excluding internships, in backend, infrastructure, platform, or product engineering roles. A track record of designing, building, and operating production backend services, developer-facing APIs, or distributed syste