Senior Distributed Systems Engineer Jobs

Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Platform Client Data streams are mission-critical at Datadog, powering near real-time communication across the vast majority of our services. Our Streaming Platform group builds the core infrastructure and abstractions that ensure Datadog remains a trusted partner for engineers worldwide. See our blog post . The Streaming Platform Client team sits at the heart of this ecosystem. We own the Rust client library (producers and consumers) with language bindings for Java, Go, and Python. We focus on building intuitive APIs and abstractions that make a powerful distributed system easy to adopt and operate for the hundreds of internal users of our library. Our library runs on critical data paths that handle hundreds of millions of messages per second making performance, observability, and reliability paramount. We also develop and operate the service that bridges the clients fleet with the platform's control plane, handling complex balancing, scaling, and static stability challenges. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help us evolve these features. You will collaborate directly with our users, tackle performance-critical code, and solve complex distributed systems challenges across the control plane, client libraries, and data plane. 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: Work within a distributed, high-impact team spanning Europe and the US, building critical technologies that power data pipelines for dozens of internal teams and hundreds of services. Architect and implement resilient interactions between our client libraries and the control plane. Optimize our high-throughput, low-level streaming library to push the boundaries of performance and efficiency. Champion the developer experience by providing

Who We Are At OKX, we believe that the future will be reshaped by crypto, and ultimately contribute to every individual's freedom. OKX is a leading crypto exchange, and the developer of OKX Wallet, giving millions access to crypto trading and decentralized crypto applications (dApps). OKX is also a trusted brand by hundreds of large institutions seeking access to crypto markets. We are safe and reliable, backed by our Proof of Reserves. Across our multiple offices globally, we are united by our core principles: We Before Me , Do the Right Thing , and Get Things Done . These shared values drive our culture, shape our processes, and foster a friendly, rewarding, and diverse environment for every OK-er. About the Opportunity Our internal platform engineering team builds and maintains the systems that drive enterprise efficiency and support OKX's rapid global growth. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you'll be a key technical leader — driving architecture decisions, solving complex engineering challenges, and raising the technical bar across the organisation. What You’ll Be Doing Own and drive architecture and design for large-scale, complex internal platform systems Define and influence the long-term technical roadmap, ensuring scalability and reliability at global scale Lead platform modernisation initiatives — architecture evolution, technical debt reduction, and reliability improvements Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, and Business stakeholders to deliver robust, scalable solutions Champion AI and intelligent automation adoption to improve operational efficiency at scale Provide technical mentorship and guidance to senior engineers across teams What We Look For In You Bachelor's or above in CS/Engineering; deep Java expertise with extensive large-scale distributed systems experience 8+ years in software engineering with a strong track record of technical leadership at scale Hands-on architecture ownership across complex, cross-team platform del

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Senior Privacy Software Engineer on the Privacy Infrastructure team, you will design and build the foundational platforms, services, and controls that enable Roblox to protect user data and meet global privacy obligations at scale. You will develop privacy-by-design solutions that support data governance, user privacy rights, data discovery, retention, auditing, and regulatory compliance across a rapidly growing ecosystem of products and services. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, data platforms, security, and privacy engineering. You will partner closely with engineers, product teams, security, legal, and policy stakeholders to build scalable privacy infrastructure that is deeply integrated into Roblox's development workflows. Your work will directly influence how we responsibly manage data for millions of users while enabling innovation across the platform. You Will Design and build scalable privacy infrastructure that enables Roblox to discover, govern, protect, and manage personal data at scale. Develop backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that embed privacy controls into engineering workflows and enable fulfillment of user privacy rights at global sc

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

Zoox is looking for an experienced software engineer to work on large-scale simulation pipelines used to validate the behavior of the Zoox self-driving vehicle. These are data and GPU intensive workloads built on Ray.io and Kubernetes. Given the massive scale and criticality of these pipelines, ensuring their reliability and efficiency has a significant impact on the company's ability to safely and quickly iterate on autonomy development. We are a small, scrappy team within the larger Autonomy organization. Although this role primarily involves off-vehicle pipelines, you will work closely with engineers developing the on-vehicle algorithms and models in our autonomy stack. We stay close to the end users - autonomy engineers - and think about the end to end use case for these validation pipelines. This is a hands-on role with a high degree of independence and ownership. You will be expected to contribute towards the framework’s architecture, reliability, efficiency, and grow its capabilities to support new use cases. You should have a track record of keeping production systems running with high availability. Experience with robotics or autonomous systems is not required but an understanding of the robotic data lifecycle is preferred. In this role, you will: Improve the cost efficiency, reliability, and performance of our validation and simulation pipelines Create production-grade APIs, SDKs, and tools to enable a varied set of validations of autonomous behaviors Improve the ML training pipelines supporting the autonomous behavior org Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of industry experience Experience optimizing large-scale distributed systems for cost and efficiency Experience with AWS or similar providers Proficiency with Python and familiarity with C++ Bonus Qu

Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Platform Client Data streams are mission-critical at Datadog, powering near real-time communication across the vast majority of our services. Our Streaming Platform group builds the core infrastructure and abstractions that ensure Datadog remains a trusted partner for engineers worldwide. See our blog post . The Streaming Platform Client team sits at the heart of this ecosystem. We own the Rust client library (producers and consumers) with language bindings for Java, Go, and Python. We focus on building intuitive APIs and abstractions that make a powerful distributed system easy to adopt and operate for the hundreds of internal users of our library. Our library runs on critical data paths that handle hundreds of millions of messages per second making performance, observability, and reliability paramount. We also develop and operate the service that bridges the clients fleet with the platform's control plane, handling complex balancing, scaling, and static stability challenges. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help us evolve these features. You will collaborate directly with our users, tackle performance-critical code, and solve complex distributed systems challenges across the control plane, client libraries, and data plane. 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: Work within a distributed, high-impact team spanning Europe and the US, building critical technologies that power data pipelines for dozens of internal teams and hundreds of services. Architect and implement resilient interactions between our client libraries and the control plane. Optimize our high-throughput, low-level streaming library to push the boundaries of performance and efficiency. Champion the developer experience by pro

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

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Foundation AI organization, you will sit at the epicenter of our foundation model efforts. While the research world is focused on architecture, you will be the architect of the data flywheel that makes VideoGen and 3DGen possible. You aren't just building pipelines; you are building the infrastructure that defines how our models perceive and generate virtual worlds in three dimensions and across time. In this role, you will partner directly with our AI researchers to advance beyond experimental datasets and into the realm of dynamic, high-fidelity data synthesis and evaluation. You will bridge the gap between research prototypes working locally to scaling for millions of users. You will design, implement, and scale robust, high-performance infrastructure to crawl, create, curate, store, and serve the massive datasets required for these models. We are seeking accomplished software engineers with a passion for data, experience building large distributed systems, and a commitment to writing high-quality, well-tested code to solve complex data challenges at scale. Your contributions will ensure that our foundation models receive the highest quality dat

Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. Senior Software Engineer Overview At Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. As a Senior Software Engineer working on the Appian platform, your mission will be to ensure Appian is always fast, scalable, and up to whatever tasks our customers configure it to do. You will solve problems of scale and flexibility that most engineers never see, building a product capable of serving our customers in ways you never imagined. In this role, your scope extends from the high-performance data layer to the cross-platform user interface and design tools. Team Description The Platform Engineering team is at the center of building Appian’s high-throughput, enterprise-grade architecture. This is a squad of builders operating at the intersection of full-stack engineering, distributed systems, and real-time data processing. We don't just write code; we architect the foundational engine that powers mission-critical applications worldwide. We build, optimize, and maintain high-performance software, empowering enterprise organizations to execute complex, high-volume workloads with speed, resilience, and quality. In this role, you will: Engine for Reliability & Scale: Manage the availability, latency, scalability, and overall efficiency of the product by designing high reliability and fault tolerance directly into software and systems. Resolve & Prevent Emergent Issues: Respond directly to high-impact technical challenges, writing robu

Senior Software Developers collaborate with Business and Quality Analysts, Designers, Project Managers and more to design software solutions that will create meaningful change for our clients. They listen thoughtfully to understand the context of a business problem and write clean and iterative code to deliver a powerful end result whilst consistently advocating for better engineering practices. By balancing strong opinions with a willingness to find the right answer, Senior Software Developers bring integrity to technology, ensuring all voices are heard. For a team to thrive, it needs collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an aspirational tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. You will leverage deep technical knowledge to solve complex business problems and proactively assess your team’s health, code quality and nonfunctional requirements. Job responsibilities You will learn and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns You will use and advocate for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients You will create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices You will collaborate with a variety of teammates to build features, design concepts and interactive prototypes and ensure best practices and UX specifications are embedded along the way. You will apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems You will efficiently utilize DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and

Who We Are Nuro is a self-driving technology company on a mission to make autonomy accessible to all. Founded in 2016, Nuro is building the world’s most scalable driver, combining cutting-edge AI with automotive-grade hardware. Nuro licenses its core technology, the Nuro Driver™, to support a wide range of applications, from robotaxis and commercial fleets to personally owned vehicles. With technology proven over years of self-driving deployments, Nuro gives the automakers and mobility platforms a clear path to AVs at commercial scale, empowering a safer, richer, and more connected future. About the Role The Mapping team in Nuro takes a machine learning-first path to unblock geographic capability with lower costs. This team plays a crucial role in the advancement of autonomous driving systems by creating and improving different components in the full lifecycle of ML models for multiple teams in this organization. We are searching for an engineer with experience building reliable and scalable machine learning infrastructure and a strong desire to contribute to the future of robot navigation for logistics and transportation. About the Work Mainly focus on building and improving HD map generation and release pipelines. Develop scalable workflows to manage first party and third party map data. Develop and manage APIs for internal users to access data. Improve and refactor existing workflows and toolings to boost efficiency. Engage with other mapping teams to help identify issues and establish long-term relationships that include knowledge sharing. About You BS in Computer Science, Robotics or another quantitative area. You have experience in one or more of the following areas: large-scale distributed systems; data storage and processing systems; advanced algorithms using C++ and Python; multithreading; and software performance tuning and optimization. Ability to efficiently develop, debug, and support new technologies in a changing environment. Str

About Hexnode Hexnode is a global leader in Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), trusted in over 100 countries and managing millions of devices worldwide. With continuous innovation across Apple, Windows, Android, macOS, Linux, and tvOS ecosystems, Hexnode is redefining enterprise mobility and cybersecurity. As we expand our Extended Detection and Response (XDR) capabilities, we are building a next-generation data platform designed for massive scale, real-time intelligence, and high-performance security analytics. The Role We are looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to architect, scale, and optimize the core data infrastructure powering our XDR product. In this role, you will take ownership of the strategic evolution of our data layer — ensuring seamless ingestion, storage, indexing, search, and retrieval of high-volume security telemetry and device data. You will play a key role in transforming our platform into a highly scalable, cost-efficient, secure, and analytics-ready ecosystem that supports real-time detection, investigation, and advanced data science workflows. This is a high-impact individual contributor role focused on architecture, platform modernization, and long-term scalability. Key Responsibilities Architect and evolve the data layer to support high-throughput ingestion, real-time processing, and low-latency search across massive datasets. Evaluate existing search and storage platforms and drive modernization initiatives toward more scalable, performant, and cost-effective solutions. Design and implement optimized indexing, partitioning, and data structuring strategies for efficient querying and retrieval. Build and manage scalable data lake architectures that support advanced analytics, threat intelligence, and data science workflows. Define strategies for lifecycle management, retention, tiered storage, and cost optimization across the data platform. Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery across distributed systems. I

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Principal Software Engineer on Creator Services Data, you’ll be leading the company’s efforts to build the next generation Data Storage systems to power the millions of experiences on the Roblox Platform. We run the mission critical cloud services, Data Stores , Memory Stores , and Badges , which are crucial for storing game state such as inventory and scores, implementing leaderboards, server lists, and trading, and tracking player progress and achievements. Our team is also responsible for building dashboards to provide insights to Creators using cloud services including Client/Server Performance , Data Stores , and Memory Stores . Finally, our team owns the Roblox Extended Services platform, which provides the capability for large experiences to purchase additional resources for existing services like Data Stores and new services built around compute and generative AI. At its core, this team is focused on solving complex back end distributed systems and storage problems at scale. However, our scope extends to full stack projects spanning all the way from the infrastructure layer, through data storage and data pipelines, microservices, telemetry, game servers,

Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Data Platform organization builds and operates the systems that power how data is stored, moved, and consumed across Robinhood. This organization spans three core pillars: Storage (Postgres, DynamoDB, and caching systems), Streaming (real-time event infrastructure), and Data Lake (ingestion and compute systems built on Delta Lake). Together, these platforms support transactional workloads, real-time data processing, and large-scale analytics that are critical to Robinhood’s products and operations. The team owns the full lifecycle of data—from low-latency order path systems to near real-time and batch analytics—serving millions of users and internal teams across the company. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer , you will serve as the technical lead across the Data Platform organization, shaping architecture and guiding execution across multiple teams. You’ll work on complex distributed systems challenges such as database sharding and proxy architectures, real-time streaming and CDC systems, and large-scale data ingestion and compute platforms. You’ll define and drive key technical bets, partner with engineering leaders to align platform capabilities with business needs,