Software Engineer Distributed Systems Jobs

A Career with Point72's Technology Team As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly improving our company’s IT infrastructure, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open-source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity. WHAT YOU'LL DO Build high-impact, real-time treasury and financing systems used across global trading time zones, delivering tools that materially change how desks operate Design and implement scalable C#/.NET services and APIs that process trades, financing, and liquidity data with low latency and high reliability Partner with traders, funding managers, and operations to gather, refine, and translate business requirements into production software Lead the adoption and continuous improvement of DevOps practices within the team, including source control, continuous integration, and automated deployment workflows Develop responsive front-end components using React or another modern front-end framework to create intuitive internal user experiences Implement comprehensive automated testing strategies, including unit tests, integration tests, and test-driven development workflows Operate and support production systems: diagnose and resolve elevated software incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement proactive remediation measures Identify, evaluate, and introduce new technologies and architecture patterns to improve performance, reliability, and developer productivity Collaborate and mentor as part of a distributed development team across the USA, Poland, and India to scale the platform and grow team capabilities WHAT'S REQUIRED Bachelor’s degree in computer science or another technical or scientific field 8 to 12 years of object-oriented

The MongoDB Query Execution Team is hiring software engineers who want to join us in developing a high performing, reliable and modular distributed query system. Our engineers work on implementing and maintaining execution algorithms, building new query language features, tuning database performance, and more to power our customers' critical workloads. This role can be based out of our Dublin office or remotely in Ireland. Relocation can be supported. Position Expectations Understand and improve current functionality of the MongoDB query engine Contribute high quality C++ code and give and solicit feedback in code reviews Identify, design, implement, test, and support new features related to query performance and robustness, query language enhancements, diagnostics for query performance problems, and integration with other products and tools Work constructively with peers to deliver excellent technical solutions Candidate Profile 5+ years of experience in systems programming Experience in databases and/or data management systems is a huge plus, but not a requirement Hands-on experience building industrial-strength software Solid computer science fundamentals, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture Experience with large code bases, preferably in C++, C, Rust or a similar compiled language B.Sc in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience Interest in the theory and practice of database query engines. Hands-on experience or M.Sc./Ph.D in the domain is a plus Success Measures In three months you’ll have contributed to the development of a project slated for the next major version, as well as fixed a few bugs in a minor version of our latest stable release series In six months, you’ll have taken on code review responsibilities and are independently delivering complex functionality and squashing bugs independently In twelve months, you’re leading the development of a new major feature and are h

About Taskrabbit: Taskrabbit is a marketplace platform that conveniently connects people with Taskers to handle everyday home to-do’s, such as furniture assembly, handyman work, moving help, and much more. At Taskrabbit, we want to transform lives one task at a time. As a company we celebrate innovation, inclusion and hard work. Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast-paced. We’re looking for talented, entrepreneurially minded and data-driven people who also have a passion for helping people do what they love. Together with IKEA, we’re creating more opportunities for people to earn a consistent, meaningful income on their own terms by building lasting relationships with clients in communities around the world. Taskrabbit is a hybrid company with employees distributed across the US and EU and a Built In — Best Places to Work (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) continually ranked across multiple national and regional categories. Join us at Taskrabbit, where your work will be meaningful, your ideas valued, and your potential unleashed! This role operates on a hybrid schedule requiring two days of in-office collaboration per week. The position must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area. About the Role We're hiring a Software Engineer II within our Fulfillment organization — the backend systems that get the right job to the right Tasker and see it through to completion. You'll join Fulfillment Lifecycle, the team that decides how jobs are matched to Taskers for our partner and marketplace business, increasingly using unstructured data and experimentation to make matching smarter and fulfillment more reliable. The team is part of a company-wide platform modernization effort, breaking a legacy monolith into well-bounded, API-first services. We're hiring for a strong backend engineer who thrives on complex, data-intensive problems, is comfortable with ambiguity, and takes pride in well-tested, observable, production-ready code. What You'll Work On B

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the Role Anthropic's Infrastructure organization is foundational to our mission of developing AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable. The systems we build determine how quickly we can train new models, how reliably we can run safety experiments, and how effectively we can scale Claude to millions of users — demonstrating that safe, reliable infrastructure and frontier capabilities can go hand in hand. Developer Productivity owns the end-to-end experience of how engineers and researchers at Anthropic develop, build, test, and ship code at scale. This role focuses on the configuration and experimentation systems that let teams safely roll out changes, run controlled experiments, and make data-driven decisions across our products and infrastructure — from feature flagging and dynamic configuration to A/B testing platforms that support both research and production workloads. Responsibilities Own the technical strategy and roadmap for config and experimentation infrastructure, translating team-level goals into concrete execution plans and partnering with teams focused on deployment, testing, and more Maintain and enhance the architecture for feature flagging, dynamic configuration, and experimentation systems, ensuring the hardest problems get solved — whether by you directly or by working through others Design and build scalable, reliable distributed infrastructure and shared libraries that support high-volume experimentation and config workloads across all engineering teams Own and evolve the platforms and tooling that let engineers and researchers safely ship config changes, run experiments, and measure impact

Zoox is on a mission to reimagine transportation and ground-up build autonomous robotaxis that are safe, reliable, clean, and enjoyable for everyone. We are still in the early stages of deploying our robotaxis on public roads, and it is a great time to join Zoox and have a significant impact in executing this mission. The ML Platform team at Zoox plays a crucial role in enabling innovations in large-scale Foundation models, VLMs, and VLAs to make autonomous driving as seamless as possible. The Opportunity Are you excited to drive our ML Performance Optimization initiatives and make our ML models that enable autonomous driving as fast and efficient as possible? You will get to work with SOTA accelerators, cutting-edge techniques in distributed training, quantization, distillation, and pruning, among other things, working closely with all the Autonomy teams within Zoox - Perception, Prediction, Planner, Simulation, Collision Avoidance, and have the opportunity to significantly push the boundaries of how ML is practiced within Zoox. We build and operate the base layer of ML tools, model development, and serving systems that our applied research teams use for in- and off-vehicle ML use cases. You will work alongside a team of strong software engineers and act as a force multiplier for our internal customers. This team has many growth opportunities as we expand our robotaxi deployments and venture into new ML domains. If you want to learn more about our stack behind autonomous driving, please look here. If you want to learn more about our ML Infrastructure, here is one of our past talks at re:Invent. In this role, you will: Design, implement, and operate cutting-edge ML Training OR Inference performance optimization techniques to scale our VLM, VLA, and Foundational models and deploy them efficiently in our robotaxi. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including ML researchers, software engineers, data engineers, and hardware

About Anyscale At Anyscale , we're on a mission to democratize distributed computing and make it accessible to software developers of all skill levels. We’re commercializing Ray , a popular open-source project that's creating an ecosystem of libraries for scalable machine learning. Companies like OpenAI , Uber , Spotify , Instacart , Cruise , and many more, have Ray in their tech stacks to accelerate the progress of AI applications out into the real world. With Anyscale, we’re building the best place to run Ray, so that any developer or data scientist can scale an ML application from their laptop to the cluster without needing to be a distributed systems expert. Proud to be backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition with $250+ million raised to date. About the role As a Distributed LLM Inference Engineer, you will help systems and optimizations that push the boundaries of performance for inference at large scale. This is an incredibly critical role to Anyscale as it allows us to achieve a market leading position for AI infrastructure. As part of this role, you will Iterate very quickly with product teams to ship the end to end solutions for Batch and Online inference at high scale which will be used by open-source Ray users and customers of Anyscale Work across the stack integrating Ray Data and LLM engine providing optimizations achieving low cost solutions for large scale ML inference Integrate with Open source software like vLLM, work closely with the community to adopt these techniques in Anyscale solutions, and also contribute improvements to open source Follow the latest state-of-the-art in the open source and the research community, implementing and extending best practices We'd love to hear from you if you have Familiarity with running ML inference at large scale with high throughput and low latency Familiarity with deep learning and deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch) Solid understanding of distributed systems, ML inference challenges Bonus points

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! Why this role? The Data Infrastructure team at Cohere is responsible for the storage and data movement layer underlying every model training run. We're building the unified storage layer that feeds our training workloads. It needs to serve petabytes of training data and model checkpoints fast enough to keep thousands of GPUs busy across several training clusters. In this role, you’d have an opportunity to build this system from the ground up. You’d be a key contributor, working on a problem few teams have had to solve at this scale. In this role, you will: Design, build, and operate the distributed storage system that feeds model training and evaluation. Run this system multiple on Kubernetes clusters at petabyte scale. Work with researchers and training-infra teams on how jobs actually read and write data, and turn that into throughput, latency, and durability requirements Work through the networking, I/O, and consistency problems of moving large datasets and checkpoints across regions and backends, with GPU idle time and time-to-insight as the measures of success You may be a good fit if you have: Strong storage fundamentals,

The MongoDB Customer Observability Team is a diverse group of contributors working together to help our users manage MongoDB at global scale. The team is responsible for MongoDB Atlas: our database-as-a-service offering and fastest-growing product, which allows users to deploy globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team to tackle exciting challenges within the Observability space. You'll contribute to developing tools and platforms that help our users understand the health and performance of their MongoDB deployments. This includes collecting metrics, monitoring slow queries, and offering actionable insights such as index and schema suggestions that improve the speed, efficiency, and overall reliability of their databases. This role provides a unique opportunity to drive engineering excellence across both dimensions of observability, leveraging technologies being developed within the Customer Observability group and contributing directly to the success of our customers and our product teams. If you're passionate about large-scale systems, digging deep into telemetry data, and building tools that make a real impact both internally and externally, we’d love to have you on board! We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model. We're looking for someone who Has at least 5 years of experience as a backend or full stack engineer Enjoys collaboration and being part of a team Is approachable, curious, and intellectually honest Is a backend engineer with a willingness to take on frontend tasks or a full-stack developer with a bias towards backend Has written backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.) Has experience with the design and architecture of a modern, scalable web application Enjoys chasing down difficult problems in a distributed environment and on an database diagnostic/operation level Always strives to expand their knowledg

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the Role Anthropic's Infrastructure organization is foundational to our mission of developing AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable. The systems we build determine how quickly we can train new models, how reliably we can run safety experiments, and how effectively we can scale Claude to millions of users — demonstrating that safe, reliable infrastructure and frontier capabilities can go hand in hand. Developer Productivity owns the end-to-end experience of how engineers and researchers at Anthropic develop, build, test, and ship code at scale — from the source control and language ecosystems that underpin our monorepo, to the build and CI infrastructure that keeps thousands of daily builds running reliably across multiple cloud providers, to the developer acceleration tooling that deeply integrates Claude into engineering workflows. Team Matching: Team matching is determined after the interview process based on interview performance, interests, and business priorities. Please note we may also consider you for different Infrastructure teams. Responsibilities: Own the technical strategy and roadmap for your area, translating team-level goals into concrete execution plans Define infrastructure architecture, ensuring the hardest problems get solved — whether by you directly or by working through others Design and build scalable, reliable distributed infrastructure and shared libraries that support high-volume workloads across all engineering teams Own and evolve build environments, package management, and dependency systems to enable fast, reproducible builds Define and implement language ecosystem standar

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! The Build Systems team within Figma’s Developer Experience organization owns Figma’s build and CI infrastructure, enabling engineers to ship changes to production quickly and safely. We build and operate core platforms across our polyglot monorepo, including build systems, artifact repositories, merge queues, test frameworks, and CI pipelines. We’re looking for an experienced technical leader to help shape these platforms, uplevel the team, and deliver high-impact platforms that accelerate engineering velocity. The ideal candidate has deep experience with large monolithic codebases, builds durable and scalable systems, and is motivated by solving high-leverage problems that amplify productivity across the engineering organization. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States. What you'll do at Figma: Drive technical roadmap and strategy for the Build Systems team Partner with cross-functional teams and leadership to identify developer pain points and design elegant, scalable solutions Lead complex, multi-quarter initiatives reducing build/test times and improving CI reliability, all while balancing technical excellence with pragmatic delivery Design, build, and maintain modern developer tools including scalable build systems, distributed CI platforms, and test frameworks that serve thousands of engineers Architect and implement large-scale infrastructure on AWS that powers our entire build pipeline to ensure reliability, performance, and cost

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. The Infrastructure product organization develops New Relic infrastructure instrumentation agents, next generation data processing and management services, vulnerability management, and security testing capabilities for on-prem and cloud customers. We work with data at a scale using a diverse tech stack (Go, Java, JavaScript, React GraphQL, Kubernetes, many public cloud web services, and more). As a senior backend engineer, you will help us build and extend next generation solutions such as a control plane for customers to manage their data pipelines at scale. New Relic is looking for engineers who are interested in building a brand-new observability experience. This high-impact engineering position is a phenomenal opportunity to own and build a set of next generation services and capabilities for the company. We are searching for a motivated engineer who is ready for a career-defining role in their next opportunity. We look forward to talking with you! What you'll do ● Design, Build, maintain, and scale back-end services and their support tools. ● Participate in architectural definitions with a high degr

Role Overview We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help shape the next generation of our enterprise SaaS platform. You’ll combine deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership, helping teams design scalable systems, modernize our platform and solve complex engineering challenges. You’ll work across backend, frontend, cloud and AI technologies while defining technical direction and staying close to the engineering work. A key part of this role will be driving the adoption of AI-native software engineering practices, including AI-PDLC (AI-enabled Product Development Lifecycle) and Spec-Driven Development, using tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and other AI coding and agentic development tools. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, designing systems at scale, influencing architecture, establishing modern engineering practices and mentoring experienced engineers. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do Define and evolve the technical architecture of our SaaS platform and create high-level and low-level designs (HLD/LLD) for complex systems. Translate business and product requirements into scalable technical designs, implementation plans and engineering deliverables. Establish and drive Spec-Driven Development, using structured requirements, architecture specifications, API contracts, data models and acceptance criteria to guide development. Drive adoption of AI-PDLC, integrating AI across requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, code review, deployment and operations. Establish AI-assisted development workflows using Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and similar AI coding agents, while maintaining engineering quality, security and architectural consistency. Design secure, scalable and reliable distributed, microservices and event-driven systems. Build and evolve backend services and APIs primarily using Node.js/TypeScript and Python, while remaining open to other modern technology stacks. Cont

The MongoDB Atlas team is a diverse group of contributors working together to help our users manage MongoDB at global scale. We are 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. We're seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Atlas Identity and Access Management (IAM) team. IAM is a platform and a product team. We serve internal engineers by providing them a secure and durable suite of services, and we serve external customers by providing them user facing features and products. We are the owners of Atlas’ authentication (OAuth, SSO, Federated Identity) and authorization (RBAC, ABAC) systems, along with many others. The IAM team’s mission is to enable customers to securely build their applications with Atlas through our best in class user experience. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City, NY for our hybrid working model. Role Responsibilities Design, architect, build, and deliver core pieces of IAM Lead projects from specification to delivery Mentor and grow other team members Improve our codebase, best practices, and design principles Define your top priorities and focuses, communicate them, and execute against them Lead and contribute to complex technical projects and initiatives Candidate Profile 5+ years experience of software engineering, primarily focused on backend systems Proficient in a modern compiled programming language (Java, Go, C#, C++, etc.) Willingness to learn JavaScript and/or TypeScript along with modern frontend technologies (React, Redux, etc.); prior experience a plus Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Desire to collaborate with colleagues and mentor fellow engineers Is curious, collaborative, empathetic, and intellectually honest Has a passion for problem solving and learning new things in the domains of computer science and software engineering Expe

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. What is our Mission Toast has established itself as the leading hospitality platform in the US, and we are now setting our sights on the global stage. As part of the International team, in our mission to expand globally, we are building what it takes to help our customers thrive. You will join a high-impact, high-ownership engineering team solving complex technical challenges. We are looking for leadership that balances technical excellence with a strong customer mindset to drive continuous growth for both the team and our platform. A day in the life (Responsibilities) Lead complex projects within a cross-functional collaborative and supportive environment. Design, build, deploy and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems critical to our customers’ success. Mentor and provide technical guidance to team members, leading technical discussions and promoting best engineering practices. Work directly with pilot customers (sometimes in the restaurant!) to ensure successful delivery and operation Advocate for best coding practices, raising the bar for yourself, your team, and the company. Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team. What you'll need to thrive (Requirements) 8+ years of experience in delivering high quality, reliable services to production using Java, Kotlin or other object oriented language(s) Proven track record of architecting, supporting and debugging large distributed & multi threaded applications. Drive to work across our tech stack and support other engineers in resolving challenging problems Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wi

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Staff Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure Tagline: Build the engine that builds Okta. 🚀 Your Mission: Define the Future of Developer Velocity at Okta Are you a software engineer who believes that an exceptional developer platform is the key to unlocking engineering-wide innovation? Are you obsessed with building the high-leverage tools, services, and automated infrastructure that make building, testing, and deploying software a seamless experience? Okta's Platform & Infrastructure team is the central nervous system for all of Okta Engineering. We build and own the entire internal developer platform—the CI/CD pipelines, the build-and-test orchestration, and the multi-cloud infrastructure that powers it all. This isn't just about maintaining systems. It's about building a scalable, resilient, and blazing-fast "paved road" that empowers hundreds of engineers to ship high-quality code, multiple times a day. Our scale is immense. We run tens of thousands of automated tests for every single commit . As Okta grows, this CI/CD workload presents a monumental engineering challenge. Your primary goal will be to attack this problem head-on. You will be a key builder in our quest to shrink massive, distributed compute jobs from hours or days down to just minutes . This role requires deep systems thinking, clever orchestration, and a passion for wringing every last drop of performance out of the infrastructure. 💻 What You'll Do (The Impact