Senior Distributed Systems Engineer Jobs

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! About the role. We’re building the next generation of agentic AI infrastructure at Cohere. This team sits at the intersection of ML systems, distributed infrastructure, and developer experience, creating the platform that powers autonomous AI agents at scale. You’ll work on hard, forward-looking problems with few established patterns, including secure code execution, agent state management, model routing, identity and authentication, and resource management for long-running agent workflows. This role is a strong fit for someone who combines systems depth with ML intuition. You should be comfortable building reliable infrastructure, thinking through distributed systems tradeoffs, and understanding how emerging agentic capabilities shape platform design. What you’ll work on. Secure execution environments for agent-generated code Identity, authentication, and trust boundaries for agents Model routing and orchestration across different model types and environments Rate limiting, quotas, and resource management for agent workflows State management, memory, and filesystem abstractions for agents. In this role you will: Turn emerging M

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role As a Research Engineer in our Video team, you will help build the next generation of production-grade foundation models for human-centric video generation. You will join a highly focused team working at the intersection of large-scale generative modeling, distributed systems, and production engineering. Our mission is to develop and optimize video base models that power realistic, controllable, and emotionally expressive synthetic humans at scale. This is not pure research. This is applied research with direct product impact. You will work on advancing training recipes, scaling distributed systems, improving evaluation frameworks, and optimizing inference to ensure our models are high quality, stable, and efficient enough for real-world deployment. Your work will directly influence models used by tens of thousands of businesses worldwide. What you’ll do You will own and execute end-to-end research and engineering projects, from hypothesis to production impact. This includes: Developing and scaling latent video diffusion models tailored for human-centric video generation Designing conditioning mechanisms to improve control (pose, emotion, script, camera) without sacrificing fidelity Advancing distr

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. Lyft is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer from a scope of disciplines. We are growing our team with people who want to build, improve and incorporate technologies that make the lives of our community more enriched. As an engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with teams like product, data science, analytics, and operations on code that empower us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our passengers and drivers. About the Team: The Business Travel team enable organizations to provide customized ride benefits at scale - whether that's employees expensing business trips and earning rewards. As a backend engineer, you'll build systems that power complex benefit rules, location restrictions, and integrations with expense providers like Concur and Expensify. This is a high-growth area for Lyft with meaningful impact potential. Responsibilities: Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Have the ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Implement tasks with good quality code leading to positive execution Participate in resolving ongoing incidents Unblock, support, effectively communicate, and obtain buy-in within your team to achieve results Experience: 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and shipping production systems at scale Strong system design instincts — you can reason through distributed systems trade-offs, identify failure modes, and choose the right architecture for the problem Practical experience with AI development to improve product experiences Hands-on experience with large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure) Proficiency in object-oriented programming; experience with the

Who We Are Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. Are you bready* for a change? Toast is looking for a Senior Software engineer to join our enterprise quick service restaurant team. You will get to work across the entire Toast platform, including our POS, backend, and front end systems. As a member of the enterprise team, you will help ensure that the product is being built to meet the new and expanding needs of these customers. About this roll * (Responsibilities) Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s enterprise management products Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes Roll* features out to customers, including monitoring for success Collaborate with UX and PM on the definition and design of features Mentor and coach other engineers Do you have the right ingredients* ? (Requirements) 5+ years experience building backend services and APIs Extensive experience working with an Object Oriented Language like Java or Kotlin, with a deep understanding of testing, quality, and best practices Experience shipping production services and balancing getting things done with platform stability and reliability Experience building backend services and APIs and scaling distributed systems Experience building android applications with kotlin is a plus Experience building front end applications is a plus Focused on delivering positive impact for Toast customers Enjoys working in a team environment with a shared code-base Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics AI at Toast At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe le

P-1492 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started in Bengaluru , India ! As a software engineer with a backend focus, you will work with your team to build infrastructure for the Databricks platform at scale. The Role : We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with a deep understanding of low-level systems to join our team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and optimizing application frameworks that form the building blocks for all software development at Databricks. This is not a full-stack role; your expertise will be focused on the intricate details of system internals, performance, and efficiency. What we look for : Design, implement, and maintain core system infrastructure and low-level software components. Optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability through meticulous analysis and innovative solutions. Work with JVM internals, memory management, concurrency, and distributed systems. Collaborate with other senior engineers and architects to define technical strategies and roadmaps. Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence. Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architectural decision-making. Troubleshoot complex system issues and provide effective resolutions. Qualifications Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

P-926 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. The Role : We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with a deep understanding of low-level systems to join our team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and optimizing application frameworks that form the building blocks for all software development at Databricks. Your expertise will be focused on the intricate details of system internals, performance, and efficiency. What we look for : Design, implement, and maintain core system infrastructure and low-level software components. Optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability through meticulous analysis and innovative solutions. Work with JVM internals, memory management, concurrency, and distributed systems. Collaborate with other senior engineers and architects to define technical strategies and roadmaps. Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence. Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architectural decision-making. Troubleshoot complex system issues and provide effective resolutions. Qualifications Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. 7+ years of professional experience in software development. Deep understanding of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) internals, including garbage collection, JIT compilation,

Location Details: At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.​ This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. Join Our Team GoDaddy's Global Storage Engineering team operates one of the largest Ceph environments in the world, delivering the object, block, and file storage platforms that power GoDaddy's hosting infrastructure, internal services, OpenStack environments, and next-generation AI/HPC workloads. If you're passionate about distributed systems, storage architecture, and solving failure scenarios at massive scale, this is an opportunity to work on infrastructure few engineers will experience in their careers. Ceph is a strategic platform at GoDaddy — not an ancillary service. Our global footprint includes 80+ production clusters, 20,000+ OSDs, 1,830 storage nodes, 300 PB of raw capacity, and 69 billion objects spanning five datacenters across three continents. The platform supports RBD, RGW (S3/Swift), and CephFS workloads through more than 1,550 pools, 574,000 placement groups, and 900+ MDS daemons, creating engineering challenges that demand deep expertise in storage architecture, data durability, performance optimization, automation, and observability. As a Senior Ceph Storage Engineer, you'll serve as one of the principal technical leaders for GoDaddy's Ceph platform. You'll design the next generation of storage clusters, lead major platform upgrades, drive capacity and hardware strategy, and establish the standards that govern how the platform scales. You'll be the engineer the team turns to for the most complex storage challenges, helping shape multi-quarter architectura

Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity The Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team tackles some of Postman's most strategic technical challenges. We partner directly with enterprise customers to solve problems that don't fit neatly into existing product boundaries, building production-grade solutions that often become core product capabilities. As a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll operate at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer success. You'll deploy Postman's critical infrastructure into customer environments, solve complex distributed systems challenges, and build the enterprise foundations that enable customers to safely adopt AI at scale. This isn't consulting or professional services. You're an engineer building production systems alongside customers, turning real-world deployments into durable platform capabilities used by thousands of organizations. This team will build 0-to-1 products from scratch - innovative, strategic initiatives designed to unlock hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue. If you enjoy difficult engineering problems, working directly with customers, and building products from the field

Location Details: Canada, Remote At GoDaddy, the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) , and some work entirely remotely.​ This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. Join our team Contribute to the development of GoDaddy’s eCommerce and SSO infrastructure and Kubernetes systems on AWS. On a day-to-day basis you will be working on the team who designs, writes, tests and deploys the infrastructure and application management software for GoDaddy’s eCommerce applications. Expect to learn every day. What you'll get to do... Work as a polyglot engineer, writing and maintaining Infrastructure as code with frameworks/ ecosystems such as Java, Unix CLI, and NodeJS Build and operate infrastructure workflows and deployment pipelines using Kubernetes, Argo Workflows, Argo CD, and GitOps practices Design, build, and own services and APIs in Java, running on Kubernetes-based platforms across AWS and distributed systems Develop and support application and infrastructure delivery pipelines, enabling reliable releases of eComm, Auth and Infrastructure services Collaborate closely with other GoDaddy departments to help advance security and technical standards, maintain regulatory compliances while operating eComm & Auth platforms Your experience should include... 5+ years of strong backend software engineering experience in Java Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including Helm, Kustomize, or equivalent tools to deploy and manage backend services Experience building and operating high-volume, mission-critical production systems on AWS with continuous deployment (CD) practices Strong experience with infrastructure as code, supporting backend applications and services Experience with observability a

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 Team A rider taps "request ride" and within seconds, an autonomous vehicle is matched, dispatched, and on its way. The On-Road Experience team owns the systems that make that moment happen. The On-road Experience team builds the real-time distributed system behind Nuro's ride-hailing product. This is foundational infrastructure where correctness and performance have consequences on a real road. About the Role This is the perfect role if you love architecting performant, reliable distributed systems, processing real-time vehicle data, and building the foundational APIs that enable seamless product experiences. The position demands technical excellence, a deep understanding of system design, and a knack for solving tough problems. Come join us in defining the future! What you'll own Backend services for ride planning, vehicle matching, and real-time trip execution Partner API integrations (Uber and others) routing ride requests to Nuro vehicles Telemetry pipelines surfacing live vehicle state to riders and operations About You 4+ years of backend engineering experience with strong Go proficiency Experience designing and operating distributed systems where reliability isn't optional End-to-end product ownership — from requirements through launch and iteration Solid hands-on experience with GCP (CloudSQL, BigQuery, Redis, or equivalent) A track record of technical lead

About the Role Together AI is building the AI Acceleration Cloud, an end-to-end platform for the full generative AI lifecycle, combining the fastest LLM inference engine with state-of-the-art AI cloud infrastructure. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in building the next generation AI cloud platform – a highly available, global, blazing-fast cloud infrastructure that virtualizes cutting-edge ML hardware (GB200s/GB300s, BlueField DPUs) and enables state-of-the-art ML practitioners with self-serve AI cloud services, such as on-demand + managed Kubernetes and Slurm clusters. This platform serves both our internal StaaS products (inference, fine-tuning) and our external cloud customers, spanning dozens of data centers across the world. Some of what you’ll work on: Work on a distributed GPU scheduling system for the on-demand clusters product, Instant Clusters. Build out a global management plane for managing our data center compute, networking, and storage. Design and build new customer-facing cloud platform services, delivering killer enterprise AI cloud features. Responsibilities Identify, design, and develop foundational backend services that power Together’s cloud platform Analyze and improve the robustness and scalability of existing distributed systems, APIs, databases, and infrastructure Partner with product teams to understand functional requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs Write clear, well-tested, and maintainable software and IaC for both new and existing systems Conduct design and code reviews, create developer documentation, and develop testing strategies for robustness and fault tolerance Participate in an on-call rotation to address critical incidents when necessary Requirements 5+ years of demonstrated experience in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems and API microservices Experience designing, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources Excel

P-1415 Our mission at Databricks is to radically simplify the whole data lifecycle from ingestion to ETL, BI, and all the way up to ML/AI with a unified platform. To achieve this goal, we believe the data warehouse architecture as we know it today will be replaced by a new architectural pattern, Lakehouse ( CIDR 2021 paper ), open platforms that unify data warehousing and advanced analytics. This new architecture will help address several major challenges, including data staleness, reliability, total cost of ownership, data lock-in, and limited use-case support. To achieve this vision, Databricks is building the next generation (decoupled) query engine and structured storage system that can outperform specialized data warehouses in relational query performance. Yet we will retain the expressiveness and robustness of general purpose systems such as Apache Spark™ to support diverse workloads ranging from ETL to data science. You will be part of this multi-year journey. As part of this team, you will design these next-generation systems that leapfrog state-of-the-art within the following areas: Query compilation and optimization Distributed query execution and scheduling Vectorized execution engine Data security Resource management Transaction coordination Efficient storage structures (encodings, indexes) Automatic physical data optimization The responsibilities you will have: Drive requirements clarity and design decisions for ambiguous problems Produce technical design documents and project plans Develop new features Mentor more junior engineers Test and rollout to production, monitoring. What we look for: A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, or performance optimization Are comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables Be customer-oriented and focused on having an impact 5+ years of experience working in a related system Optional: PhD in databases or distributed systems About Dat

P-1377 Mission As a Senior ML and AI Technical Solutions Engineer, you play a critical role by helping customers debug and maintain stable GenAI and ML Workloads with AI agent systems using the Databricks Platform. You will develop product expertise end-to-end by advising a broad set of customers and use cases across the space - including products such as Agent Bricks, Vector Search and Model Serving. You will collaborate cross-functionally with other teams - whether that’s working with engineering to improve the product or interacting directly with the account team on a specific customer issue. TSEs have proven production troubleshooting and optimisation experience to help our customers’ workloads run smoothly and to achieve their strategic objectives with ML/AI technology with Databricks. Additionally, you are an early adopter of GenAI technology to improve your own efficiency and amplify the team's output. Reporting to a TSE manager - you will be part of a world class global support engineering organization for Databricks, known for your technical depth and delivering impeccable customer service. The Impact You Will Have Act as senior technical solution expert for complex issues spanning data pipelines, ML pipelines and/or AI applications, applying deep expertise in distributed systems. Analyse and troubleshoot production workloads at the code level, optimise for performance, reliability, latency, and cost. Diagnose and support Machine Learning and/or Large Language Model deployments, including real-time and batch inference, autoscaling, monitoring, logging, and alerting. Serve as a Subject Matter Expert guiding customers on experiment tracking, model registry, versioning, evaluation, labelling, tracing, and lifecycle observability. Provide high-quality support by guiding customers in leveraging Databricks AI to solve generative AI use cases & challenges, leveraging LLMs, MCP, AI Agents, RAG/Agentic RAG, APIs, vector embedd

Our mission at Databricks is to radically simplify the whole data lifecycle from ingestion to ETL, BI, and all the way up to ML/AI with a unified platform. To achieve this goal, we believe the data warehouse architecture as we know it today will be replaced by a new architectural pattern, Lakehouse ( CIDR 2021 paper ), open platforms that unify data warehousing and advanced analytics. The new architecture will help address several major challenges, including data staleness, reliability, total cost of ownership, data lock-in, and limited use-case support. A critical part of realizing this vision is the next generation (decoupled) query engine and structured storage system that can outperform specialized data warehouses in relational query performance, yet retain the expressiveness and of general purpose systems such as Apache Spark™ to support diverse workloads ranging from ETL to data science. As part of this team, you will be working in one or more of the following areas to design and implement these next gen systems that leapfrog state-of-the-art: Query compilation and optimization Distributed query execution and scheduling Vectorized execution engine Data security Resource management Transaction coordination Efficient storage structures (encodings, indexes) Automatic physical data optimization What we look for: A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, or performance optimization Experience working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables Motivated by delivering customer value and impact 5+ years of experience working in a related system (preferred) Optional: PhD in databases or distributed systems Pay Range Transparency Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based

P-97 Our mission at Databricks is to radically simplify the whole data lifecycle from ingestion to ETL, BI, and all the way up to ML/AI with a unified platform. To achieve this goal, we believe the data warehouse architecture as we know it today will be replaced by a new architectural pattern, Lakehouse ( CIDR 2021 paper ), open platforms that unify data warehousing and advanced analytics. The new architecture will help address several major challenges, including data staleness, reliability, total cost of ownership, data lock-in, and limited use-case support. A critical part of realizing this vision is the next generation (decoupled) query engine and structured storage system that can outperform specialized data warehouses in relational query performance, yet retain the expressiveness and of general purpose systems such as Spark™ to support diverse workloads ranging from ETL to data science. As part of this team, you will be working in one or more of the following areas to design and implement these next gen systems that leapfrog state-of-the-art: Query compilation and optimization Distributed query execution and scheduling Vectorized execution engine Data security Resource management Transaction coordination Efficient storage structures (encodings, indexes) Automatic physical data optimization What we look for: A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, or performance optimization Experience working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables Motivated by delivering customer value and impact 5+ years of experience working in a related system (preferred) Optional: PhD in databases or distributed systems Pay Range Transparency Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based o