Senior Software Engineer Distributed Systems Jobs

Who We Are Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that’s why we’re building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles. With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected. Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors. About the Role As a Principal Software Engineer, you will help define and build the high-performance, highly reliable foundation of the Nuro Driver. This role spans Device Platform, Performance, and Onboard Systems, requiring deep technical leadership across sensor and compute integration, onboard runtime systems, distributed execution, and autonomy software performance. You will architect hardware-agnostic device interfaces, inter-device communication pipelines, runtime APIs, and onboard software platforms that enable Nuro’s autonomy stack to run safely and efficiently across current and future vehicle platforms. You will also lead system-wide performance and reliability efforts, including latency reduction, resource efficiency, observability, automated validation, and tooling for debugging complex onboard systems. This is a highly cross-functional and high-impact role. You will partner with autonomy, hardware, safety, validation, opera

Ignite your curiosity. Solve the unsolvable. At Leidos, we do more than write code—we decode the unknown. Our San Diego-based research and engineering team takes on some of the nation’s toughest defense challenges using advanced signal processing, ocean remote sensing, and high-performance computing. We’re seeking a Software Engineer / Computer Scientist who enjoys solving complex problems and pushing the limits of performance. In this role, you’ll work alongside a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers with expertise in hydrodynamics, physics, acoustics, and signal processing to build impactful software that turns massive, complex data sets into meaningful insight. If you are motivated by innovation, energized by collaboration, and excited to see your work support real-world missions, this could be the right opportunity for you. What You’ll Do Collaborate with scientists and engineers to design, develop, and optimize advanced algorithms for next-generation radar, optical, and infrared sensor systems. Build scalable, high-performance backend systems for scientific computing in distributed environments. Integrate, refactor, and improve scientific codebases to increase efficiency and scalability. Translate and optimize existing code for GPU/CUDA acceleration and parallel or distributed execution. Test, document, maintain, and enhance complex software in Linux/Unix environments. Contribute in a collaborative environment that values technical excellence, creativity, and continuous growth. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related field with 4+ years of backend software development experience, or a Master’s degree with 2+ years of experience. Equivalent experience may be considered in place of a degree. U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance; active Top Secret clea

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We’re hiring talented Software Engineers for the Snowflake Dynamic Tables team in Berlin, Germany. Join us to build the next generation data platform that enables customers to transform data with declarative SQL while maintaining control over cost, latency, and throughput. We are looking for strong engineers who are enthusiastic about building new cutting-edge technologies, who look forward to tackling complex database problems, and pick up and understand deep technical areas quickly. You will work alongside seasoned engineers and grow in your scope and influence. AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: Work with a talented and collaborative team of engineers and Product Managers in our globally distributed team to design and build Dynamic Tables capabilities Design, implement, support, and evolve new features and performance improvements Help shape technical and product direction with senior teammates Break ambiguous problems down, weigh the tradeoffs, and make technical and product decisions Analyze and solve performance, correctness, and fault-tolerance challenges at scale Dig into unfamiliar parts of a large system to root cause and solve problems Ensure operational readiness of what you build and help meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, a

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 a global company that connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities. Our drivers and passengers entrust Lyft with their personal information and travel details to get where they are going and expect us to keep that data safe. Lyft's Privacy team is composed of engineers and analysts dedicated to ensuring appropriate data protections are applied to our drivers' and passengers' data. Our goal is to make privacy the default setting for our internal engineers and our customers. We help design architectures, build a scalable data platform, and define policies to reduce the exposure of user data and ensure appropriate privacy and security protections are applied across the company. We are looking for a highly motivated, collaborative, team-focused and technically strong Software Engineer to join our Privacy team. As a member of this team, you will design and build systems that make privacy the default at Lyft. Every day, you'll partner with engineering, product, legal, and compliance stakeholders on high-impact projects — from building data redaction pipelines to enabling users to exercise their privacy rights to deploying data management systems across a diverse set of Lyft services. You'll bring strong engineering instincts, a passion for privacy, and the ability to lead large projects from idea to execution. Responsibilities: Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code Promote appropriate tech and engineering best practices Partner with teams across Lyft on organizational privacy initiatives Partner with senior engineers to design, build, and maintain systems that enhance privacy across the organization Independently lead tasks from idea to execution Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Parti

Who we are At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences. Our dedication to remote-first work , and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you’re part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we’re acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands. . Hiring and how we work We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions! Also, while we are a remote-first company, you may be asked to report in person on an ad-hoc basis for team gatherings, functional off-sites or customer meetings. . See yourself at Twilio Join the team as Twilio’s next Software Architect, (L6). About the job This position is needed to define and drive architectural vision, strategy, and alignment across multiple products and domains at company scale. As a senior-most technical leader, you’ll set long-term technical vision, establish architectural guardrails, and ensure coherence across distributed systems and platforms. You will drive cross-organizational initiatives, solve complex and ambiguous technical challenges, and elevate the technical standard for Twilio company-wide. Responsibilities In this role, you'll: Set and communicate long-term architectural vision, aligning teams and leadership across Twilio. Lead cross-product architecture reviews, standardize engineering practices, and drive foundational technical investments. Solve the most complex, ambiguous technical challenges at platform and company-wide scale. Mentor and guide principal and staff engineers, fostering a culture

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 Infrastructure builds the systems engineers depend on to ship stable, scalable, and efficient services. We're hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to run cross-functional programs across our infrastructure and data platform teams. This role blends program delivery with product sense: you'll own the roadmap for your area, set priorities, and act as the voice of the customer back into how we build. Responsibilities Run infrastructure programs end to end, from kickoff through delivery Own the roadmap for your platform area: shape the strategy, sequence the work, and make the prioritization calls Drive data platform migration and modernization work, coordinating across engineering, data, and platform teams to keep dependencies and timelines under control Be the voice of the customer: partner with engineering teams across Lyft, surface their pain points, and feed that back into priorities and roadmaps Define success metrics and adoption goals, gather and document customer requirements, and make sure what ships actually solves the problem Build feedback loops with customer teams and turn what you hear into concrete improvements Partner with engineering and infrastructure leads to build plans, call out risks early, and keep stakeholders aligned Own program health: track milestones, surface blockers before they slip, and keep decision-makers in the loop Use your technical background in distributed systems and data infrastructure to ask sharp questions and build plans the team believes in Share in the team's release oncall rotation Experience 5+ years in Technical Program Management or a TPM/PM hybrid role A background in software, data, or systems engineering, enough to go deep with engineers Experience owning a roadmap: setting strategy, prioritizing across competing demands, and defining what suc

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Your opportunity At New Relic, we provide our customers real-time insights, so they can innovate faster. Our software delivers insightful observability tools across different technologies and distributed systems, enabling software engineering teams to quickly identify, understand and tackle issues, analyze performance and get the most of their software and infrastructure. Service Levels is one of New Relic's most commercially critical products — it powers SLO compliance and reliability measurement for thousands of customers. We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a senior, high-performing team building the next generation of service level management at scale. You'll lead a team that includes lead-level engineers with deep domain expertise, and your value will come from enabling their best work — not directing it. You'll own delivery, quality, and team health while partnering closely with product and design to ship features that directly impact New Relic's commercial momentum. What you'll do Lead a full-stack engineering team of 6-8 across backend (Java/Spring Boot) and frontend (React/TypeScript) Own end-to-end delivery — sprint planning, execution, quality, and release Set clear expectations, manage performance equitably, and develop engineers at every level Partner with Product Manager and XD to translate requirements into technically sound, deliverable plans Drive architectural discussions and hold the team to engineering excellence standards Identify

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Vice President, Software Engineering Overview Decision Stream is Mastercard's next-generation AI-native decisioning platform, designed to power intelligent, real-time decisions across fraud, authentication, payments, and risk. Built with a startup mindset and enterprise-scale ambition, the platform combines innovation, speed, and engineering excellence to redefine decisioning across Mastercard's global ecosystem. We are seeking a visionary and hands-on VP of Software Engineering to help build and scale the platform. This leader will partner closely with Product, Architecture, AI, and Platform Engineering teams to drive technology strategy, architecture, engineering execution, and organizational growth. What You'll Do Lead Through Technical Excellence • Serve as a senior technology leader and role model for engineering teams. • Drive architecture, design, and technology decisions across distributed systems, streaming, AI, and cloud-native platforms. • Engage deeply with engineers, architects, and product leaders to solve complex technical challenges. • Influence engineering standards, software quality, and operational excellence. Build and Scale the Platform • Help shape and deliver a highly scalable, resilient, and secure decisioning platform operating at Mastercard scale. • Balan

MongoDB’s Storage Layer Services (SLS) team is re-architecting the MongoDB cloud storage layer and sits at the heart of our next-generation cloud storage architecture. This relatively new team is building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that both enhance today’s Atlas storage stack and enable more customer workloads to run more efficiently. As the Site Reliability Engineering Manager for SLS, you will partner with the teams building these storage services to define SLOs, shape capacity plans, and ensure the reliability, durability, and operational safety of the storage layer that underpins Atlas. You’ll help grow and lead a small, senior team of SREs as founding members of this organization, playing a crucial role in executing on a multi-year roadmap for MongoDB’s cloud storage architecture. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model. Responsibilities Build and lead a team of 6-8 engineers, fostering a positive culture, handling career growth and performance conversations, and proactively removing blockers Define and drive a clear technical vision and comprehensive roadmap for our multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs Contribute through hands-on technical work, such as leading architectural design reviews, reviewing PRs, and stepping in to guide the team through complex operational challenges Act as the primary liaison for the Storage Layer Services SRE team, collaborating closely with other engineering leaders to ensure platform alignment and manage stakeholder expectations You may be a good fit if you Have 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems, with 2+ years managing engineering teams Possess a customer-focused mindset, treating internal developers as your primary users Value efficiency in processes and operations, and have a track record of optimizing team workflows Pr

MongoDB’s Storage Layer Services (SLS) team is re-architecting the MongoDB cloud storage layer and sits at the heart of our next-generation cloud storage architecture. This relatively new team is building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that both enhance today’s Atlas storage stack and enable more customer workloads to run more efficiently. As the Site Reliability Engineering Manager for SLS, you will partner with the teams building these storage services to define SLOs, shape capacity plans, and ensure the reliability, durability, and operational safety of the storage layer that underpins Atlas. You’ll help grow and lead a small, senior team of SREs as founding members of this organization, playing a crucial role in executing on a multi-year roadmap for MongoDB’s cloud storage architecture. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City for our hybrid working model. Responsibilities Build and lead a team of 6-8 engineers, fostering a positive culture, handling career growth and performance conversations, and proactively removing blockers Define and drive a clear technical vision and comprehensive roadmap for our multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs Contribute through hands-on technical work, such as leading architectural design reviews, reviewing PRs, and stepping in to guide the team through complex operational challenges Act as the primary liaison for the Storage Layer Services SRE team, collaborating closely with other engineering leaders to ensure platform alignment and manage stakeholder expectations You may be a good fit if you Have 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems, with 2+ years managing engineering teams Possess a customer-focused mindset, treating internal developers as your primary users Value efficiency in processes and operations, and have a track record of optimizing team workf

MongoDB’s Storage Layer Services (SLS) team is re-architecting the MongoDB cloud storage layer and sits at the heart of our next-generation cloud storage architecture. This relatively new team is building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that both enhance today’s Atlas storage stack and enable more customer workloads to run more efficiently. As the Site Reliability Engineering Manager for SLS, you will partner with the teams building these storage services to define SLOs, shape capacity plans, and ensure the reliability, durability, and operational safety of the storage layer that underpins Atlas. You’ll help grow and lead a small, senior team of SREs as founding members of this organization, playing a crucial role in executing on a multi-year roadmap for MongoDB’s cloud storage architecture. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Cork for our hybrid working model. Responsibilities Build and lead a team of 6-8 engineers, fostering a positive culture, handling career growth and performance conversations, and proactively removing blockers Define and drive a clear technical vision and comprehensive roadmap for our multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs Contribute through hands-on technical work, such as leading architectural design reviews, reviewing PRs, and stepping in to guide the team through complex operational challenges Act as the primary liaison for the Storage Layer Services SRE team, collaborating closely with other engineering leaders to ensure platform alignment and manage stakeholder expectations You may be a good fit if you Have 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems, with 2+ years managing engineering teams Possess a customer-focused mindset, treating internal developers as your primary users Value efficiency in processes and operations, and have a track record of optimizing team workflows Pref

Observability Pipelines (OP) is Datadog's on-premise, vendor-agnostic telemetry pipeline product. As an Engineering Manager on the team, you'll own people management and engineering execution for one of OP's core missions, spanning areas like Integrations (ingesting from and routing to the many source and destination systems customers rely on), streaming insights, cost control, or pipeline capabilities, reliability and scalability. You'll partner directly with Product to help shape the roadmap, and work closely with your peer EMs and senior ICs to define how OP operates and grows. This is an opportunity to build your management craft while having real influence over the technical direction of a fast-growing product area. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Own people management and engineering execution Establish a strong operating rhythm for the team Drive high standards for on-call rotations and incident response Partner with Product on the roadmap, balancing product priorities with technical realities Lead, coach, and grow the careers of engineers on your team Who You Are: Experienced managing engineers directly, comfortable owning a team’s operating rhythm end-to-end, from planning through execution and stakeholder communication to incident and on-call ownership Have a technical background in distributed systems and data infrastructure Have experience with on-premises or customer-installed software concepts A product-minded partner to have on the team — you enjoy working with Product on strategy Experience with high-performance or Rust-based data pipeline systems Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications o

At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. As a small team, we’re all generalists that work across the full stack (built in Typescript end-to-end). We’re looking for experienced engineers that thrive in an environment of autonomy and individual responsibility to help us build the future of product development. Location & work mode Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in the US and Europe. You can work from anywhere within these regions. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel. What you'll do Work closely with founders and design to implement new concepts and ideas Build AI-powered functionality into the core of Linear Update our realtime collaborative content editor used across all internal surfaces Build new user-facing features with beautiful and scalable UI components Obsessively improve application performance Refine our software development processes to keep the team operating at high velocity What we're looking for 5+ years of experience building customer-facing products at a high-quality software company Strong React and TypeScript fundamentals, with experience across the full stack (Browser technologies, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL) Track record of driving complex, end-to-end features (not just incremental improvemen

At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. As a small team, we’re all generalists that work across the full stack (built in Typescript end-to-end). We’re looking for experienced engineers that thrive in an environment of autonomy and individual responsibility to help us build the future of product development. Location & work mode Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in the US and Europe. You can work from anywhere within these regions. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel. What you'll do Work closely with founders and design to implement new concepts and ideas Build AI-powered functionality into the core of Linear Update our realtime collaborative content editor used across all internal surfaces Build new user-facing features with beautiful and scalable UI components Obsessively improve application performance Refine our software development processes to keep the team operating at high velocity What we're looking for 5+ years of experience building customer-facing products at a high-quality software company Strong React and TypeScript fundamentals, with experience across the full stack (Browser technologies, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL) Track record of driving complex, end-to-end features (not just incremental improvemen

At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. As a small team, we’re all generalists that work across the full stack (built in Typescript end-to-end). We’re looking for experienced engineers that thrive in an environment of autonomy and individual responsibility to help us build the future of product development. Location & work mode Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in the US and Europe. You can work from anywhere within those regions. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel. What you'll do Build new user-facing features with everything from database models to GraphQL resolvers and UI components Optimize our data synchronization stack by applying better serialization protocols Add real-time collaborative editing to our content editor Improve performance by profiling and tweaking virtualized list rendering Add analytics, monitoring, and alerts to our service so that we can better respond to operational incidents Open-source any non-trivial innovations that come out of our work on the product Redefine best-in-class software development processes so that we can build a purpose-built product. What we're looking for 5+ years of experience building customer-facing products at a high-quality software company Strong React and Typ