Software Engineer Distributed Systems Jobs

Who We Are Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation , more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it. You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries. About the Connectivity Team: We’re the Connectivity Team at Verkada — and we own some of the most strategically critical products in the company: Verkada Gateways – Bringing cameras, access control, and sensors online anywhere in the world Verkada Security Trailers – Rapid-deploy mobile security units Quality Sensors – Environmental intelligence at scale We’re a small, vertically integrated team. That means we touch everything: Embedded firmware Cellular modems & SIMs Linux networking Cloud backend services Command Frontend What You'll Do Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from 100s of thousands of devices deployed around the world Work with high concurrency key-value storage systems (Redis, DynamoDB) Work with Postgres relational databases Work with logging and message passing technologies lik

The HD Mapping team is seeking an experienced full-stack engineer to lead development of the web services that support the creation, cataloging, and maintenance of 3D HD maps deployed across Zoox’s fleet. This role will be instrumental in scaling our mapping operations into multiple new cities. In this role, you will: Own and architect backend services (FastAPI) for the HD Mapping team's web infrastructure Support development of frontend tools for interacting with Zoox’s maps (TypeScript, React, MUI, Deck.gl) Automate complex pipelines and workflows Mentor team members on web technologies and distributed systems You will establish guidelines and refactor existing code to follow best practices Qualifications Strong experience in backend development and distributed systems Frontend experience and knowledge of best practices (proficiency in Python, TypeScript, and React) Knowledge of relational database design (Postgres) and RESTful API development Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor others Experience automating complex workflows (Airflow) Bonus Qualifications Experience with FastAPI, Kubernetes, and ArgoCI Knowledge of geospatial data and coordinate systems About Zoox Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. We’re looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fast-moving and highly execution-oriented team. Follow us on LinkedIn Accommodations If you need an accommodation to participate in the applica

About Graphcore At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute. We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale. As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem.To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity, Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world.We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems, in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company, our products and the future of artificial intelligence . 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 The Software Infrastructure team provides critical platforms and services for software development teams across the business. Our responsibilities include managing the CI platform and services, build engineering, component integration, and packaging and release systems. We operate in squads, fostering a culture of service ownership and empowerment for our engineers. We focus on long-term engineering solutions and strive to eliminate toil wherever possible. Responsibilities and Duties Develop, own, and maintain tools and services to support AI research and engineering teams Deploy and maintain services with Kubernetes and Docker Manage our Cloud Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform Candidate Profile Essential:

About Graphcore At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute. We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale. As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem.To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity, Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world.We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems, in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company, our products and the future of artificial intelligence . 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 The Software Infrastructure team provides critical platforms and services for software development teams across the business. Our responsibilities include managing the CI platform and services, build engineering, component integration, and packaging and release systems. We operate in squads, fostering a culture of service ownership and empowerment for our engineers. We focus on long-term engineering solutions and strive to eliminate toil wherever possible. Responsibilities and Duties Develop, own, and maintain tools and services to support AI research and engineering teams Deploy and maintain services with Kubernetes and Docker Manage our Cloud Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform Candidate Profile Essential:

About Graphcore At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute. We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale. As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem.To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity, Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world.We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems, in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company, our products and the future of artificial intelligence . 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 The Software Infrastructure team provides critical platforms and services for software development teams across the business. Our responsibilities include managing the CI platform and services, build engineering, component integration, and packaging and release systems. We operate in squads, fostering a culture of service ownership and empowerment for our engineers. We focus on long-term engineering solutions and strive to eliminate toil wherever possible. Responsibilities and Duties Develop, own, and maintain tools and services to support AI research and engineering teams Deploy and maintain services with Kubernetes and Docker Manage our Cloud Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform Candidate Profile Essential:

At Kargo, our mission is to build a connective tissue between the physical world of freight and the digital ecosystem used to manage it. We believe that advancements in smart infrastructure are critical to enabling a safer and more efficient future for logistics. Our loading dock sensor platform verifies all incoming and outgoing freight, aggregating data that enables shippers and carriers to efficiently manage dock operations, switch out suppliers and understand material flow in real time. We care deeply about delivering the best solutions for our customers. As a member of the Kargo team, you will have the opportunity to develop and deploy tomorrow’s hardware & software solutions and help revolutionize logistics. Responsibilities Develop the end-to-end experience for AI-powered products, including data pipelines, backend services, and user interfaces for interacting with the Kargo platform. Build and evolve Kargo’s customer-facing dashboards and applications, creating intuitive experiences that help users understand and act on complex logistics data. Develop software experiences across multiple surfaces - web, mobile, and kiosk interfaces deployed on Kargo Towers and forklifts. Collaborate with Product and Solution Engineers to build our agentic AI product suite. Strengthen the stability, scalability, and measurability of our backend systems. Experience 5+ years of software engineering experience building products at scale. Strong experience in TypeScript and Python. Experience building and shipping enterprise or consumer-facing products, with a strong understanding of how product needs translate into technical requirements. Comfort working cross-functionally and with direct customer stakeholders. Experience building modern web applications and APIs, with the ability to own features across the full stack. Strong understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and fault-tolerant system design. Experience with productio

The Team 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. 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 join 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. This role can be based out of either our Dublin or Cork office or remotely in Ireland. The ideal candidate should Have 6+ years of experience working on software development and operating distributed systems Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language Have operated or supported stateful storage or database systems at scale, and are comfortable with durability, consistency, and recovery trade-offs. Possess a customer-focused mindset Value efficiency in processes and operations Prefer automation over manual processes. We are a small team of software engineers with a strong bias towards software solutions to avoid toil Experience using and extending containerization technologies, particularly Kubernetes, to enhance application agility, optimize resource utilization, and accelerate time-to-market Expertise in cloud infrastructure platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Azure Understanding of Linux operating system internals and networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, routing) Responsibilities Work on our multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineering needs Build for reliability, making services and infrastructure avail

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. 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 join 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. This role can be based out of our Toronto or Montreal office or remotely in the Canada while physically based in an Eastern or Central time zone location. The ideal candidate should Have 6+ years of experience working on software development and operating distributed systems Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language Have operated or supported stateful storage or database systems at scale, and are comfortable with durability, consistency, and recovery trade-offs. Possess a customer-focused mindset Value efficiency in processes and operations Prefer automation over manual processes. We are a small team of software engineers with a strong bias towards software solutions to avoid toil Experience using and extending containerization technologies, particularly Kubernetes, to enhance application agility, optimize resource utilization, and accelerate time-to-market Expertise in cloud infrastructure platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Azure Understanding of Linux operating system internals and networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, routing) Responsibilities Work on our multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure goals with immediate engineerin

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. 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 join 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. This role can be based out of our Boston, New York City, Raleigh, Miami, Pittsburgh or remotely in the United States while physically based in an Eastern or Central time zone location. The ideal candidate should Have 6+ years of experience working on software development and operating distributed systems Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language Have operated or supported stateful storage or database systems at scale, and are comfortable with durability, consistency, and recovery trade-offs. Possess a customer-focused mindset Value efficiency in processes and operations Prefer automation over manual processes. We are a small team of software engineers with a strong bias towards software solutions to avoid toil Experience using and extending containerization technologies, particularly Kubernetes, to enhance application agility, optimize resource utilization, and accelerate time-to-market Expertise in cloud infrastructure platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Azure Understanding of Linux operating system internals and networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, routing) Responsibilities Work on our multi-tenant distributed storage systems, balancing long-term strategic infrastructure g

About the Job: As a Senior Full Stack Engineer on LaunchDarkly’s AgentControl team, you'll build critical systems such as the web application that customers interact with on a daily basis and distributed systems that power AI evaluations at scale. These systems enable customers to control, monitor, and optimize their agent’s functionality. LaunchDarkly’s AgentControl team is on a mission to manage the complete software development lifecycle for shipping agents to production, from configuring to benchmarking to observing and beyond. AgentControl enables teams to adjust agent behavior without needing a redeploy or code change, while also running experiments, monitoring agents in production, and putting guardrails around AI as usage scales. The product spans offline evals, real-time observability, prompt and workflow optimization, and decision-making around quality, accuracy, relevance, and cost. The AgentControl team has a huge opportunity ahead of it; it's a strategic bet for LaunchDarkly, and we need your help writing the next chapter in our story. Responsibilities: Build and maintain scalable backend services, distributed systems, and APIs that power the AgentControl product You’ll primarily work in Go, Python, and TypeScript and will work directly with other technologies and tools such as AWS, CockroachDB, Datadog, DeepEval, and FastAPI. Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including product managers, designers, and other LaunchDarkly engineering teams, to understand real-world challenges and improve GenAI workflows using our own platform. Keep up to date with the latest developments in the AI field and in software development best practices Continuously optimize the performance, reliability, and scalability of our systems Drive architecture and design discussions, offering thoughtful input and collaborating with peer engineers to identify trade-offs and make well-informed decisions Take ownership of code in production, participate in on-call rotations, a

About StarRez StarRez is the global leader in student housing software, providing innovative solutions for on and off-campus housing management, resident wellness and experience, and revenue generation. Trusted by 1,400+ clients across 25+ countries, StarRez supports more than 4 million beds annually with its user-friendly, all-in-one platform, delivering seamless experiences for students and administrators. With offices in the United States, Australia, the UK, and India, StarRez blends the robust capabilities of a global organization with the personalized care and service of a trusted partner. Role: As a Senior Quality Engineer - you will play a pivotal role in elevating our quality practices across customer-facing event management workflows, booking and registration experiences, operational administration, product integrations, and complex distributed systems. You will be an expert within our engineering organization, deeply understanding product behaviour, customer journeys, business rules, and the systems that support seamless conference and event experiences. This role will balance hands-on individual contributor responsibilities with leading, influencing, and coaching your peers. This individual contributor role is for someone who is passionate about seeing systems holistically, has a strong vision for product quality, and is eager to drive the highest standards of customer experience, functional correctness, usability, accessibility, reliability, performance, and release confidence. You will leverage your deep understanding of SaaS product behaviour, end-to-end workflows, integrations, environments, and customer operations to guide and influence our development process. You will not manage people. You will set the quality bar for your team, do the work to hold it, and coach the engineers, product managers and designers around you to share ownership of it. You will report to the Director of Quality and work day

About the Team The Software Engineering team is responsible for designing and building the scalable, performant, and secure backend systems that power our products—from early prototypes to large-scale deployments. We collaborate closely with product, hardware, and full-stack teams to ensure our infrastructure enables fast iteration while setting a strong foundation for long-term growth. About the Role As a Backend Engineer , you will design and build services, APIs, and infrastructure that support evolving product needs. You’ll apply a deep understanding of backend systems and maintain enough end-to-end context—from hardware to cloud—to guide technical decisions that best serve the product and team. We’re looking for engineers who thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments and care deeply about building robust systems that scale. This role is based in San Francisco, CA . We use a hybrid work model of four days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Architect, build, and maintain high-performance, secure backend systems. Design APIs, data models, and infrastructure to support evolving product needs. Balance near-term development velocity with long-term maintainability and scalability. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive, end-to-end solutions. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend systems. Have a proven track record of building and scaling systems from early stage to large scale. Are proficient with Python and Go, and familiar with a range of server-side technologies. Have a strong grasp of system design, performance optimization, and security best practices. Can reason about full-stack tradeoffs from hardware through cloud infrastructure. (Nice to have) Have experience with distributed systems and cloud architectures. (Nice to have) Bring a background in instrumentation, analytics, and performanc

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Role Description: Defense Unicorns seeks a Senior-level Engineer to lead the development and implementation of Defense Unicorns’ Autonomy and Unmanned Systems Domain. This role will work closely with fellow platform engineers, software engineers, and warfighters. What You’ll Work On: Deliver interfaces for managing individual assets and large fleets of autonomous and unmanned systems. Design and implement data-rich UIs that reflect real-time and distributed system state. Work with stakeholders to develop workflows for deploying, updating, and monitoring systems across edge, remote, and disconnected environments. Handle complex state management and asynchronous data flows. Integrate frontend applications with backend APIs, platform services, and communications technologies. Improve usability and clarity for technically complex operational workflows. Partner with UX to translate complex system behavior into intuitive user experiences. Responsibilities: Lead the technical staff and technical baseline of Defense Unicorns’ Autonomous and Unmanned Systems Domain, mentoring and growing a team of software engineers and DevSecOps engineers. Own architectural decisions that align with secure software development practices, application security, and CI/CD best practices. Mentor and develop engineers across the team, fostering technical excellence and continuous learning. Communicate technical priorities with product management while advocating for thoughtful management of technical complexity, scalability, and long-term maintainability. Work closely with peers to ensure cohesive architecture across Defense Unicorns capabilities and seamless integration with the common platform baseline. Translate operational imperatives into product capabilities and guide development toward solutions that meet or exceed mission objectives. Serve as the technical leader across software,

About the Team This team builds an AI-native predictive analytics platform that embeds ML and AI-driven insights directly into production Go-To-Market workflows — powering real-time decisions at scale. The team owns the full stack from distributed data pipelines and backend services to ML and AI-powered capabilities that ship directly to customers. We are building toward a model where AI components are first-class runtime dependencies, not bolt-on features. Agentic AI development is a core part of how we increase engineering velocity and deliver customer value. This is a team that ships daily, iterates constantly, and treats speed as a capability to be deliberately improved. The Role This is a high-ownership, builder-first Sr. Software Engineer role. You will design, build, and ship AI-integrated data systems from concept through production — owning outcomes end-to-end, including deployment, monitoring, cost, and business impact. We are seeking a candidate who views AI tooling as a fundamental force multiplier in their daily engineering process. This position is central to our transition into an AI-native function, requiring an individual capable of making decisive, pragmatic architectural choices on reversible matters to maintain momentum. We need an experienced builder of production-grade, data-centric systems who is obsessed with delivering customer value and possesses a deep, curious enthusiasm for the transformative potential of AI. What You Will Build AI-Native Systems Development. Design, build, and own scalable data and ML pipelines, backend services, and AI-powered capabilities that are part of the platform's production decision-making layer. AI and ML components are runtime dependencies in this role — not research projects or experiments. Candidates will have strong back end and data engineering skills to thrive in this space. Daily Shipping. Decompose complex work into safely mergeable increments and ship them daily. Treat large, multi-day pull requ

Staff Engineer About LaunchDarkly Engineering LaunchDarkly helps engineering organizations ship software and AI with speed, safety, and control. Our platform gives teams the confidence to release gradually, target experiences to the right audiences, learn through experimentation, understand what is happening in production, and respond quickly when risk appears. Our engineers build the systems, services, SDKs, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and product experiences that make this possible. The work spans high-scale distributed systems, reliable data and event pipelines, intuitive enterprise workflows, and AI-powered capabilities that help teams manage the next generation of software delivery. LaunchDarkly’s SDKs are used in systems that perform trillions of feature flag evaluations each day, giving our engineering work a direct connection to the reliability and customer experience of software around the world. As the company grows, we are expanding beyond traditional feature management into experimentation, observability, and AgentControl—helping customers control more of the software and AI lifecycle. That creates an unusually broad set of technical challenges, visible customer impact, and room for engineers to shape what comes next. We believe in the power of teams. We work with humility, openness, curiosity, and care; we value clear communication, thoughtful technical judgment, inclusive collaboration, and a strong sense of ownership. We encourage people to apply even when they do not meet every qualification listed below. We are interested in the experience, perspective, and potential you would bring to the role. About the role Staff scope at LaunchDarkly is defined by impact rather than title alone. The specific domain may include platform infrastructure, APIs, SDKs, data systems, observability, experimentation, feature management, or AI/agent capabilities. As a Staff Engineer at LaunchDarkly, you will provide technical leadership beyond a single team. Yo