Software Engineer Distributed Systems Jobs

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. Summary: As a Principal Software Engineer at Appian, you will be the primary technical strategist, responsible for shaping the architectural foundation of our platform. Your role involves anticipating future challenges and implementing innovative solutions today. You will drive complex cross-functional initiatives, ensuring Appian remains a leader in the low-code and automation industry. Responsibilities: Define the long-term architectural vision and governance for the Appian platform. Identify systemic technical risks and lead task forces to resolve architectural bottlenecks. Develop internal tools and SDKs to simplify infrastructure and enhance developer productivity. Conduct deep-dive troubleshooting for complex production issues. Promote AI-native engineering practices and integrate AI features into the platform. Lead the development of core platform libraries and high-risk prototypes. Participate in the Architectural Guild and review high-impact design documents. Mentor lead and senior engineers, and represent Appian in the tech community. Ensure operational resilience with self-healing and highly available systems. Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. 15+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in architecting large-scale distributed systems. Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns. Proven transformational leadership in technological migrations or strategies. Expertise in Java and Cloud-Native ecosyst

Software Engineer Build technology where every nanosecond matters. At Graviton, software isn't just a tool that supports trading. It is the infrastructure behind every research breakthrough, every trading decision and every competitive advantage. As a Software Engineer , you'll work on systems where performance, reliability and precision matter at an extraordinary scale. You'll partner closely with software engineers and quantitative researchers to build technology that processes enormous volumes of market data, powers quantitative research and supports live trading. You'll take on problems that don't have obvious answers — from designing high-performance systems and distributed infrastructure to eliminating bottlenecks measured in microseconds and building tools that make our researchers and engineers faster. Your work will go into production, be measured against real-world performance and have a direct impact on how our trading systems operate. If you enjoy solving hard engineering problems, understanding systems at a deep level and pushing technology to its limits, you'll feel right at home. What You'll Work On You'll work across the engineering stack that powers our quantitative research and trading platforms. Depending on your team, your work may include: Designing and building high-performance, low-latency systems in modern C++. Building distributed systems that process and analyze massive volumes of market data . Designing systems where latency, throughput and reliability directly influence trading performance . Working on Linux systems, networking, concurrency and multithreaded applications. Profiling systems, identifying bottlenecks and optimizing performance at the hardware and software level. Building robust infrastructure that supports quantitative research and live trading. Debugging complex production systems and solving problems where correctness and reliability are critical. Designing internal platforms and developer tools that accelerate research an

About Graphcore Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone. Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. Job Summary Join our dynamic Software Infrastructure team and take a pivotal role in scaling and managing our infrastructure. You will develop essential tools and services that empower our broader software team. Your contributions will enhance the build, test, deployment, and productisation processes of our Machine Learning Software components. Work with our High-Performance Computing (HPC) AI platforms and gain invaluable experience in distributed systems. The Team An exciting opportunity to join a new team within the Software Operations group. The Build Engineering team is a new function within Software Infrastructure, which focuses on the overall process of building and integration of the Machine Learn ing S oftware S tack. You will work closely with the QA and development teams to get an understanding of how our ML SW stack is built, helping to ensure good build practices, and proving that the stack works together and is reproducible in secure, sandboxed environments. Responsibilities and Duties Developing our internal t

Opportunity Overview: We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our Integrations team. In this role, you will be designing, developing, and scaling highly available healthcare integration systems supporting prior authorization workflows across providers, payers, and delegated entities. You'll direct a fast-paced, autonomous,agile team of software engineers in the design, development, and operational support of a growing enterprise integration platform. This is an opportunity to drive technical excellence at the intersection of healthcare interoperability and modern distributed systems. What you’ll do: Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership across architecture, system design, platform scalability, reliability, and operational excellence. Platform Engineering: Design and build scalable, resilient, and high-performing systems that support critical business workflows and enterprise integrations. Integration Solutions: Lead the development and maintenance of secure integrations with internal and external platforms, partners, and third-party systems. Cloud & Automation: Drive cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and software delivery practices that enable reliable and efficient releases. Distributed Systems: Design and support event-driven and distributed architectures that enable scalable and fault-tolerant processing. Operational Excellence: Establish monitoring, observability, and incident response practices to ensure system reliability, performance, and availability. Quality Engineering: Champion automated testing, quality assurance, and engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle. Production Support: Lead the resolution of complex production issues and drive continuous improvement in platform stability and operational efficiency. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, operations, data, security, and business stakeholders to deliver solutions aligned with organizational goals. Agile Delive

Opportunity Overview: This is a unique opportunity to join a high-caliber software engineering team that is experiencing rapid growth. You’ll play a key role in building impactful healthcare technology on a modern technology stack, with a focus on our core data and AI platforms. Your work will focus on enhancing the platform's key features, while also balancing scalability, reusability, and performance. As a Staff Engineer on the Application Engineering team, you’ll serve as a senior technical leader - responsible for designing and delivering high-quality, scalable software systems that power Cohere Health’s core platform. You’ll act as a multiplier, elevating the technical bar for the team, mentoring engineers, and partnering with product, data, and clinical teams to deliver solutions that meet compliance, quality, and performance standards. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on solving complex problems in healthcare, have deep expertise in building distributed systems, and want to influence architecture and engineering practices at scale. What you’ll do: Technical Leadership & Architecture Define and drive the architecture of large-scale, distributed application systems across the Cohere platform. Ensure solutions are secure, performant, maintainable, and compliant with NCQA, CMS, and payer requirements. Champion engineering best practices in CI/CD, testing, release management, and observability. Hands-On Engineering Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, primarily in modern frameworks (e.g., Python, TypeScript/React, Java/Kotlin). Lead the development of core features and APIs that directly impact providers, payers, and patients. Partner with DevOps and Data teams to ensure seamless integration, scalability, and operational readiness. Quality & Compliance Focus Embed automated testing, monitoring, and release safeguards into the development lifecycle. Proactively address compliance and audit-readiness requirements in application

About the Team API Frontiers turns OpenAI’s frontier models into production APIs that developers can use to build reliable products and agents. We own the core path connecting models to developers through the Responses API, with a focus on safety, reliability, and speed. Working closely with Research, Safety, Codex, and other API teams, we bring new model capabilities into production and improve them through developer feedback. About the Role We are looking for a backend software engineer to build and operate the services behind the Responses API. You will shape API behavior, bring new capabilities from research into production, and make long-running agent workflows dependable and fast. The work combines distributed systems engineering with product judgment: designing useful developer interfaces, managing staged rollouts, and following production issues through to durable fixes. In this role, you will: Design, build, and operate APIs and backend services that bring frontier model capabilities to developers. Partner with Research, Safety, Codex, and API teams to define API behavior and deliver safe, staged launches. Build API capabilities for agent workflows, including task delegation, context sharing, and parallel execution. Strengthen long-running request reliability across timeouts, cancellation, streaming, and background execution. Improve request-processing performance and tail latency through profiling, efficient systems code, and persistent connections. Turn developer feedback and production failures into better observability, diagnostics, and lasting product improvements. Your background might look something like: 5+ years of experience building and operating backend services or developer-facing APIs in production. Strong software engineering fundamentals, with practical knowledge of distributed systems, concurrency, and asynchronous execution. Ability to diagnose production failures and performance bottlenecks using observability data and profiling. Product

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. About the role: As a New Grad Software Engineer, you'll join a team of exceptional builders working on products that are reshaping how the world creates software. You'll have the opportunity to work on everything from our AI-powered development platform to the distributed systems that enable real-time collaboration for millions of developers. This is a chance to define your career while defining the future of software development. You'll work on problems that matter, with the autonomy to drive solutions and the support to grow into a technical leader. What you will build: Product features that delight users and make it possible for anybody to create software AI coding agent that understands intent and generates production-ready applications Cloud infrastructure that provides instant, powerful development environments at global scale Platform features that enable one click deployments and scale to millions of users Required skills and experience: Recent graduate (2027) with a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field Strong programming skills in a modern language (JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust) Full-stack capabilities with experience in React, Node.js, and database technologies Growth orientation - eager to learn new technologies and take on increasing responsibility Collaborative spirit - you work well in cross-functional teams and value diverse perspectives What we value : Problem-solving mindset: Ability to approach complex operational challenges systematically and devise effective solutions Self-directed and autonomous: Capable of working independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams Strong communication skills: Ability to explain complex technical conce

The Application Modernization Platform (AMP) team is dedicated to solving one of the industry's biggest challenges: transforming rigid, legacy applications that suffer from poor scalability and high operating costs into modern, microservices-based architectures on MongoDB. To accelerate this transition, MongoDB is building a dedicated Platform and Infrastructure team to develop the Application Modernisation Platform and Infrastructure . As we help customers modernize their application and data ecosystems, we face the challenge of deploying complex tooling into highly restrictive client environments and architecting automated verification frameworks to ensure data equivalence. This new team will architect the platform foundation and infrastructure that enables a "build once, run anywhere" model, ensuring our AI-powered modernisation suite operates seamlessly regardless of a client's security or network constraints. We are looking for engineers to join this high-visibility initiative, where you will solve unique distributed systems puzzles and help shape the future of how global enterprises leverage data and AI. We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer who thrives on solving infrastructure constraints and building developer-centric modernisation platforms with a strong background in building software testkits/frameworks. The ideal candidate will be designing and building automated frameworks that validate functional equivalence, performance benchmarks, and data integrity. From leveraging LLMs for unit test generation to building contract testing frameworks, your work will be the safety net for the world’s largest enterprise migrations. This role will be based in our India office in Gurgaon and offers a hybrid working model. Position Expectations Contribute high-quality, well-tested code to the modernization and framework team and its surrounding services Collaborate effectively with Product Management, other engineers, and designers to build and deliver on

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our growing Gurugram Products & Technology team to develop and expand core parts of a new platform we are building to make it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB. As a Software Engineer on this new team, you will be responsible for developing cutting edge technologies related to enabling deployment at scale of AI applications. You will take on challenging, high-visibility projects that improve and enhance the performance, scalability, and reliability of the distributed systems infrastructure for this new product. MongoDB engineering teams pride themselves on building high-quality software and living MongoDB cultural values every day – we value intellectual curiosity and honesty, and building together in an environment that prioritizes collaboration over competition. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model. Position Expectations Work closely with research, product management, product engineering, product design, peers as well as other teams within the company to implement the first version and future evolution of the service Design, build and deliver well-tested core pieces of the platform in collaboration with other vested parties Contribute to shaping architecture, code reviews and development practices, developer experience as the teams and product grow Mentor fellow engineers and assume ownership and accountability of projects Qualifications Strong background in building core components for high scale compute and data distributed systems 3+ years experience of building distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale and an interest in working with Python, Go and Java Proven success in designing, writing, testing, debugging, performance tuning, possessing a strong grip on the foundational materials of computer science and maintaining distributed and/or highly concurrent software systems in large, long-

About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the Role You will build the model runtime within the inference engine that executes complex, frontier models at scale on OpenAI’s custom silicon. The runtime will sit between models running on the hardware and the upper layers of the cluster serving software stack, translating demanding inference workloads into efficient execution while optimizing for throughput, latency, utilization, and reliability. You will work across model architecture, distributed systems, compilers, kernels, and silicon to design a production-grade runtime comparable in ambition to systems such as vLLM and SGLang, but customized and optimized for OpenAI’s AI accelerator. Your work will shape how new model capabilities map onto the platform and how quickly custom silicon can deliver meaningful performance in production. In this role, you will: Design and implement the LLM inference runtime for frontier models running on custom silicon. Build scheduling, continuous batching, memory management, KV-cache management, and execution orchestration for high-performance inference. Develop distributed execution strategies across chips, hosts, and racks, including model partitioning, communication, and synchronization. Optimize end-to-end latency, throughput, memory efficiency, and hardware utilization across diverse model architectures and serving workloads. Partner with kernel, compiler, architecture, and silicon teams to co-design interfaces and remove performance bottlenecks across the stack. Enable new

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

The NVIDIA DGXC Data Services team builds cloud-native systems, frameworks, and services for managing data across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure. We are building the next-generation data and storage infrastructure to solve some of the hardest problems in AI: storage, access, ingestion, governance, observability, and data management for exabyte-scale, high-performance GPU-based training and inference jobs. Our work gives NVIDIA teams the foundational capabilities they need to build, train, deploy, and operate AI products at scale without reinventing critical data infrastructure for every workload. What you will be doing: Build cloud-native data and storage services for hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, including dataset discovery, ingestion, governance, checkpointing, observability, and low-latency access. Develop scalable cloud-native services and APIs that support exabyte-scale, high-performance GPU training and inference workflows. Work closely with product managers, internal AI teams, platform teams, and partner engineering teams to understand requirements and turn them into reliable production systems. Collaborate with SRE, operations, and support teams to improve service reliability, performance, observability, on-call readiness, and operational scale. Use modern software engineering practices, including AI-assisted and agentic development workflows, while maintaining high standards for design, testing, security, and verification. What we need to see: BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience, with 5+ years of software engineering experience. Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and practi

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. Build Core Data Engineering Primitives at Cloud Scale Data pipelines are foundational infrastructure — when they're fast, correct, and maintainable, customers build on them with confidence. If you've spent the bulk of your career building large-scale data infrastructure — designing streaming or transformation primitives, reasoning hard about consistency and fault tolerance, and owning the systems that run under millions of customer workloads — this role might be for you. You'll be working on the streaming and transformation layer at Snowflake: the constructs that define how customers move, shape, and maintain data. AI has a real presence in this work — in how customers use these pipelines and in how we think about building them — but the core job is hard distributed systems engineering, and that's what we're hiring for. About the Team We build the core data engineering primitives that power Snowflake's streaming and transformation capabilities. From the constructs customers use to define real-time pipelines to the execution fabric that makes those pipelines reliable and cost-efficient at cloud scale, our team owns the full stack of declarative data engineering. We're a small, high-ownership team operating close to the product — which means your decisions ship, your architec

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. We are hiring a Software Engineer I to join our Engineering team. You will get your hands on full-stack services, dig into distributed systems problems, and work right at the intersection of traditional software engineering and AI-driven development. We are not just dabbling in AI here. We use it to write better code, catch bugs faster, and troubleshoot smarter, and we want engineers who want to get good at that too and help their teammates do the same. You will ship real features, sit in on architectural conversations that actually shape the product, and grow alongside a team that cares as much about doing good work as they do about doing meaningful work. You Will: Build scalable front-end and back-end services for the next generation of applications at Smartsheet (Kotlin, Java, Typescript, React) Solve challenging distributed systems problems and work with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes) Take part in code reviews and architectural discussions as you work with other software engineers and product managers Forge a strong partnership with product management and other key areas of the business Enhance existing application code with new features and strike a balance when making technical decisions (build vs refactor vs simplify) Actively use AI tools to improve personal and team efficiency across coding, testing, design, and troubleshooting, exploring AI integration opportunities within team processes and features, and coaching others on effective AI use You Have: 1+ years software development experience build

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. As a Software Engineer II at Smartsheet, you will help build the next generation of our platform while tackling meaningful distributed systems challenges alongside a talented engineering team. You will collaborate closely with product managers and fellow engineers through code reviews and architectural discussions, and you will have the opportunity to mentor junior engineers as you grow in your own career. This role is a strong fit for someone with a couple of years of hands-on development experience who is ready to take on more ownership, sharpen their skills in cloud infrastructure, and help shape how the team uses AI tools to work smarter and faster . You Will: Build scalable back-end services for the next generation of applications at Smartsheet (Kotlin, Java) Solve challenging distributed systems problems and work with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes) Take part in code reviews and architectural discussions as you work with other software engineers and product managers Mentor junior engineers on code quality and other industry best practices Forge a strong partnership with product management and other key areas of the business Actively use AI tools to improve personal and team efficiency across coding, testing, design, and troubleshooting, exploring AI integration opportunities within team processes and features, and coaching others on effective AI use You Have: 2+ years software development experience building highly scalable, highly available applications 2+ years of programming experience with full st