8,611 distributed systems engineer jobs at 2,209 companies in United States
Lead Distributed Systems Engineer
New York City, New York, United States
$250k-$325k/yr HybridFull Time
Production distributed-systems experience, event-driven architecture expertise, engineering leadership, and knowledge of replication, consistency, partition failures, and secure edge systems.
Kafka, SQS, MQTT, RabbitMQ, Flink, Spark
Staff Distributed Systems Engineer
New York City, New York, United States
$300k-$500k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ YOERequires 8+ years of backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience; distributed production systems expertise; PostgreSQL, Redis-compatible systems, AWS, infrastructure as code, programming, and disaster-recovery experience.
PostgreSQL, Redis, Valkey, Dragonfly, KeyDB, AWS, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, Terraform, Go, TypeScript, Node.js, NATS JetStream, Kafka, Datadog APM, AWS Performance Insights
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$163k-$214k/yr OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOE6+ years backend engineering with Go or Rust, distributed systems fundamentals, event streaming and time-series experience, cloud-native deployments, observability, SQL, and operational/on-call ownership.
Go, Rust, gNMI, NETCONF, SNMP, REST, gRPC, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Kafka, Kinesis, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, SQL
Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco or New York City or Austin or Seattle
$175k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Experienced engineer building observability, control planes, and API surfaces for large fleets; production service ownership, pager/incident experience, fluent with AI tooling and distributed systems.
LLM APIs, MCP servers, Claude Code, Cursor, Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, Temporal, Cadence, BMC/Redfish, Go, Python, Postgres, Kubernetes, ZTP, DHCP, DNS
Distributed Systems Engineer
Los Angeles or San Francisco
OnsiteFull Time
Experience with streaming, storage, or database system internals; distributed systems fundamentals; back-end programming (e.g., Rust); must be U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, refugee, or asylee due to ITAR.
Rust
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
United States or Canada or San Francisco or New York City or Seattle or Ann Arbor
$151k-$191k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOERequires 5+ years of software engineering experience building distributed systems, object-oriented programming in Go, cloud provider experience, and familiarity with message queues, databases, AI, and maintainable code.
Go, AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, BigTable, Cloud Spanner, HBase, Cassandra, gRPC, REST, Protobuf, MessagePack, Kubernetes, AI
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
HybridFull Time
7+ YOERequires 7+ years of software engineering experience, distributed computing leadership, cloud architecture, resilient event-driven systems, scalable storage, observability, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Python, and SQL.
Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, GitHub Actions, GitHub, GCP, AWS, Python, SQL
Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years building production systems with latency and failure behavior; strong systems language (Rust, C++, or Go); Kubernetes expertise; ability to debug production failures; in-person in San Francisco five days a week.
Kubernetes, Rust, C++, Go
Principal Distributed Systems Engineer
Pleasanton, California, United States
$223k-$334k/yr HybridFull Time
14+ YOE14+ years software development, 6+ years distributed systems, 8+ years in Java/Python/Go, Bachelor's in CS or related, expert in lakehouse stack (dbt, Airflow, Trino, Iceberg, S3, Glue), Terraform, SQL, and multi-tenant access control.
dbt Core, Airflow, Trino, Apache Iceberg, Amazon S3 Tables, AWS Glue Catalog, Apache Superset, Metabase, Terraform, Java, Python, Go, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Looker
Distributed Systems Security Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United States
HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8-10 years experience with heterogeneous compute environments, Kubernetes hardening, and networked system security; 10+ years with HPCs; strong hands-on engineering in on-prem and cloud; familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed compute systems a plus.
AWS, Kubernetes
Distributed Systems Engineer, Analytical Database Platform
Atlanta or Austin or Denver or Lisbon or London or Seattle or Washington
OnsiteFull Time
3+ YOE3+ years professional software engineering experience building backend, infrastructure, database, or distributed-data systems; strong Go or systems programming; production service experience; distributed-systems knowledge; observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
Go, ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Flink, GraphQL, Terraform, Salt, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux
Staff/Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
New York City, New York, United States
$185k-$235k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Expertise in distributed execution, scheduling, storage, reliability, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, security, and performance optimization for mission-critical systems.
Kafka, Redpanda, Pulsar, SQS, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Temporal, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Typesense, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Microsoft
Member of Technical Staff, Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$300k-$400k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Systems engineering expertise in AI workload co-design, performance engineering, reliable distributed systems, and heterogeneous compute; no specific degree or years required.
Distributed Systems Engineer (L5) - Compute
United States
$388k-$619k/yr RemoteFull Time
Requires large-scale infrastructure experience, hands-on Kubernetes, distributed systems, backend services, AWS or cloud, Linux environments, strong communication and problem-solving skills, and Golang, Java, or Python experience.
Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, Golang, Java, Python
Senior Engineer, Distributed Control Systems
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOERequires 5+ years designing, commissioning, or maintaining industrial controls systems; expertise with PLC, DCS, instrumentation, electrical systems, schematics, commissioning, and field troubleshooting.
PLC, DCS, remote I/O, Rockwell, Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Emerson, Honeywell, P&IDs, FAT, UL 508A, NFPA 70, NEC, ISA, VFDs, MCCs
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOE6+ years product/program management experience building cloud-scale solutions; deep familiarity with the Terraform SDK; API design leadership; strong written/verbal communication and data/engineering fluency.
Terraform SDK
Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems Engineer, EDA Infrastructure
Washington or Austin or Westford or United States or Durham or California
$152k-$288k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years in software or infrastructure engineering, bachelor's degree or equivalent, Go or Python programming, distributed systems automation, Linux production infrastructure, observability, reliability, and strong communication.
Go, Python, Linux, Slurm, LSF, Kubernetes, Bright Cluster Manager
Distributed Systems Architect / Systems Engineering Lead (ES)
Austin, Texas, United States
$104k-$174k/yr OnsiteFull Time
3+ YOEBachelor's in science/applied science/engineering,3+ years architecting distributed/high-availability systems,US citizenship,eligibility for classified access,strong communication and systems design skills.
Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Pulsar, Jira, Structurizr, C++, Python, TCP/IP
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Whippany, New Jersey, United States
$166k-$175k/yr HybridFull Time
Design and implement RESTful microservices with Java/Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, Maven, Jenkins/GitLab CI, Jira/Confluence, SonarQube, Veracode; secure coding, unit testing, and observability.
Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Apache Kafka, Maven, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Jira, Confluence, SonarQube, Veracode, Bitbucket, J2EE, Spring
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